Media<\/strong>: Unlike the UPA era where media had a free hand, today the press is muffled. Switch on the channels in the heat of the farmers\u2019 protests and the channels will be discussing the COVID curve, and the astonishing control the BJP government had over the pandemic, unlike other nations. The media is overwhelmingly gushing about the achievements of the government. Or Godi media would be screaming about the anti-nationals Khalistani links of agitating farmers.\u00a0 The media today is remote-controlled by the government in a way never witnessed before. \u00a0We rarely saw the farmers\u2019 protests or any protests shown in sequential order as was shown during the UPA era.<\/p>\n Today, most of our news today is caught on Twitter with videos shared and independent journalists reporting news on group.\u00a0 Therefore, it is stunning when in the heat of so many protests, the media chose to ignore it.\u00a0 A sense of betrayal fills many when the media chose to ignore citizens\u2019 voices.<\/p>\n The television media is eventually forced to touch on these topics in the evening news when Twitter hashtags reach zooming trends.\u00a0 While the media does touch on fuel hikes, it has not struck the public as strongly. \u00a0\u00a0Turn on the channels and you will find them breezing through different topics, and touch on a few more strongly. Most of the media channels never criticize the government, unlike the UPA days, when they were screaming blue murder for the rise in fuel and gas prices.<\/p>\n Revolutions already going on in India:<\/strong> Since 2014, India has been going through some intensified situations. It first started with demonetization, which depleted most people\u2019s finances, people lost businesses and many lost all their money. Then there was the Hindu Muslim divide with lynching by cow vigilantes on Muslims.\u00a0 JNU students and other students also were targeted, attacked, arrested, and bad-named as \u201cterrorists.\u201d \u00a0After that was the anti-CAA revolution where more than half the nation rose against the CAA implementation.\u00a0 COVID-19 struck and ended the protests.\u00a0 PRotests rose again now with the farmers\u2019 revolution, being the largest revolution in world history. With that was the arrests of journalists, activists on worrying scales.\u00a0 People are exhausted from one issue to another. Suddenly, making a noise about the gas price rise seemed incongruous.<\/p>\n Coronavirus:<\/strong> The Opposition though speaking vociferously about it has not hit the streets as aggressively because the Covid-19 has hindered a lot of movement and people are already on the streets for the farmers, and other deep pressing issues. People also have enough on their plate added to the coronavirus stalking lives, so the movement against the steep gas hikes is cloaked up. The pandemic is not yet over yet as we know. Right now, a South African Brazilian variant of coronavirus has entered India.<\/p>\n Lost jobs, depression:\u00a0<\/strong> People have lost jobs, money, lost their loved ones to the pandemic and many have lost everything to the degree they don\u2019t have the energy to hit the streets.<\/p>\n Depression is sinking in many people. Over the last few years, the climate of hate and division has heightened to greater intensities.\u00a0 \u00a0There is a rise in suicides all over the country and just in a few years, India has seen Bollywood actors taking their lives in an unprecedented manner. Something clearly is not right.<\/p>\n Independent journalists clamped:\u00a0 <\/strong>Many journalists\u00a0are being arrested for reporting the news and that has also clamped down on the spirit of journalism, stifled free reporting. In all this, somehow, the price rise of gas seemed fairly insignificant in the face of bigger glaring issues.<\/p>\n Sinking in the miry clay of this complex paraphernalia, people have lost the josh to protest about the rise in gas cylinder prices.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hamslive.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Smiti-300x300.jpg\")
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