India TV on March 27 evening edition broadcast a sensational news item. It was about a man carrying a baby and under surveillance. This is a sensational news of course, or it can be listed in investigative journalism. Nowadays it is very difficult to survive in the field due to stiff competition from other channels. So, reporters go for any kind of news and air them with make-ups. The ethics of a reporter demands that he serves mankind but unfortunately the same, as a whole, is being overlooked. Exaggerated news, with hype is offered and the public is confused.
In India 70% of the population is illiterate and can be guided this way or that. Two years back there was a news about drinking of milk by idols all over the country. Then came World Cup predictions, Sachin will score centuries and India will emerge winner. Nothing of the sort happened with India being ousted in the primary round itself. Indian people have good sense to forget and repeatedly do so.
The subject discussed here is a serious issue and will bring
forth multifarious consequences. For a baby's birth, prerequisite
conditions are required. A baby cannot grow in a hollow place
or in a cavity of pipe or tunnel. Womb, fallopian tube, serum,
female egg, umbilical fluids and above all placenta and certain
body temperature are required. Blood vessels are connected
to baby to grow for nine months inside and finally all should
break away automatically to pave way for easy birth or manually
operated birth. Logically none of the above prerequisites
are fulfilled in the above case and doctors or scientists
are keeping mum. Women all over the world are having menstrual
cycle and unfertilized eggs are thus produced in every 15
days cycle.
If the above mentioned pregnancy of man is the result of
an experiment, it is unethical, cruel and condemnable. The
experiments and researches are made on frogs, rats, pigs and
monkeys. Only then they are applied on the human beings. Nothing
was heard in the past and this news came all of a sudden.
Hence it is not at all believable. For argument's sake if
it is true to zero per cent, then the so called custodians
on the earth of the divine power have to close their establishments
and go for finding out other jobs for their livelihood. Hence,
let us hope good sense will prevail and the govt may take
cognizable of such hyped news. The Indian mass can be driven
either way.
MRG Pillai, Bhopal