Impact of Violence —How does it affect families, children and youngsters:

While violence is not new to the human race, it is an increasing problem in modern society. Violence can be defined in many ways. The World Health Organisation (WHO) promotes a broad definition of violence. With great inventions and new technological advancements, the impact of violence is increasing considerably.

The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. The definition should be understood to include physical, sexual and psychological abuse (such as the significant abuse of power arising from a dependent relationship, threats, intimidation and neglect).

This topic deals with how violence affects the behaviour of family members,  youngsters and children of all age groups. Impact of violence is observed almost everywhere  in and around us.

Thare are many types of violence that are commonly found:

1. Physical Violence (Domestic violence)

2. Pyscological Violence

3. Self- Directed Violence (Harming ones’s ownself)

4. Violent Video games that affect the behaviour of children

5. Violence in families because of movies and television programmes.

Violence can be of many types; the basic ones being Physical violence normally reffered to as Domestic Violence where one or more episodes of aggressive behavior, usually resulting in physical injury with possible damage to internal organs, sense organs, the central nervous system, or the musculoskeletal system of another person.

Then comes psychological violence which comprises of  Emotional abuse, mental abuse A form of mistreatment in which there is intent to cause mental or emotional pain or injury; Psycological violence  includes verbal aggression, statements intended to humiliate or infantilize and  insults and results in stress, social withdrawal, long-term   depression. Then comes Self-directed violence which includes suicidal behaviour and self-harm.

The effect of violence on children is observed when they become aggressive and arrogant. Playing video games brings in a great deal of aggression in the mind of the children and directly affect them leading them to behave in an arrogant manner.  If there is domestic violence in a family, the child feels himself responsible for it they do not understand that it is a problem between the adults. They might feel that parents are fighting because their school performance, fighting with siblings etc. Family violence often leaves the child with a feeling of confusion in particular when they feel close to both parents. 

  Illustrations communicate in a better manner:

       Here are some examples to site at:
These are illustrations that help a common, uneducated man to understand what the news story talks about:
By seeing this a lay man can understand that this is talking about Kasab

Analysis of NBT on Raj Thakerey's issue:

Analysis of  NBT (Navbharat Times) of the dates 21^st to 22^th August, 2012 :

The ‘Navbharat Time is the sister paper of The Times of India. Navbharat Times is basically a newspaper that has mainly gained grounds in the Northern states of India.

The aim of this analysis is to find out how the functioning of the newspaper takes place and also the qualitative and the quantitative analysis of NBT. This is an analysis of a news published continuously for five consecutive days.  The news is about Mr. Raj Thakerey and his rally against the attack on 11^th August, 2012 at CST.

The analysis is on the following components:

1.Qualitative Analysis: 

2. Quantitative Analysis:

   

21^st August 2012:

      On the 21^st of Aug, the news published against the permission denied for Raj Thakerey’s rally was placed on the right hand side of NBT as the 2^nd lead story.

This was a story which is 10.5 long and consists of 4 columns on the right end

The news is above fold which shows that the news is of great importance.

This news says, even if permission is denied the rally would still take place as said by Mr, Raj. Also the ethical issue that comes into picture is, influencing the north Indians by such news i.e talking in terms of what Mr.Raj does! NBT being the sister newspaper of The Times Of  India is in great favor of the North and it’s issues are all the more related in favour of the North Indians whereas that is not the case with Times Of India. The news of Mr.Raj’s rally on 21^st said that this rally is for asking the resignation of Home Minister R.R.Patil and a police commissioner Aroop Patnakar. The quantity of the news here is not much and gives only the required information that a reader might search for in a newspaper. The source of the news is NBT and the byline given is: By a Special Correspondent. The layout of the news is very subtle and describes the entire scenario with the help of the images. The picture used to support the news is very apt and marks great significance. The image used on 21^st is of Mr.Raj and there is a quote given by him supporting the photograph. The news that was published also stated that there were 35 thousand members of MNS who were a part of the rally. Now this shows that Mr. Raj wants to show his power and his rule over Maharashtra.

22 ^nd August:

The news published on the next day that is on 22^nd August 2012 was a 7 column news stretching from the left to the extreme right. The news talks about how Mr. Raj says that he belongs to only Maharahstra and Maharashtra is his concern, not Hindutva.

The news article on this date tells us what Raj said at the rally at Azad Maidan. The news is published above the fold. His speech lasted for nearly 15 minutes where he spoke about Dalit leaders, Muslims and people who come from  outside the state. The quantity of the news here is more as compared to the news published on other days. The size of the news was 22cm long and was of 5 columns. The byline given is of a Senior correspondent of NBT. The quality of the news  goes on deteriorating as the news gets older.

                In these news of two days, the news differs from just being a simple news to a violent news. One the first day it is normal but on the second day it talks about Dalits, Muslims and people comming from outside the state. This again comes in ethics as to such violent news should be published or no. The layout is promotional here (there are borders for the news that defines that it is an important issue to be read, also the news is supported with an image of thousands of people who had come for the rally waving MNS flags at Azad Maidan. This makes the news catchy and people get attracted towards it. When people look at the image of the crowd they get a feeling that the news is something really serious and these are the tactics to attract readers. This is again unethical and biased on the part of the news agency to draw readers towards them. Also the news published on 22^nd comprise of quotes by leaders of different parties like there are quotes from R.R.Patil- the Home Minister of Maharashtra, Aroop Patnayak- The Commissioner of Mumbai,  Ramdas Aathavle - RPI leader and Abu Azmi who is the state president of Maharashtra Samajwadi Party. All of these leaders warned Mr.Raj for not getting into topics which would hurt any community.

“Khamoshi and Guzarish”- THE TWO EPICS

A shot from Guzarish

A shot from guzarish

A shot from Khamoshi

These two movies portray life of the disabled human beings with varying degree of success. ‘Khamoshi’ tells us about deaf-mute parents who communicate in musical terms with their grownup daughter. These two films Hindi films convey an extreme emotion,  positive as well as negative, funny and  sad. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, paints a beautiful picture of how a disabled person can enjoy life with whatever they are blessed with and not sit and crib.  Though the stories are ordinary enough, they bring in a great deal of satisfaction for someone who watch the film.

Khamoshi: The Musical in 1996, about a daughter's struggle to communicate with her deaf-mute parents.. The much talked about Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Guzarish”, a story of a quadriplegic ex magician raises some ethical questions about euthanasia.

From his first venture Khamoshi, where Mr Bhansali had Manisha Koirala playing a mute person, he  has focused on stories revolving around disabled people.

“Guzarish” may be another attempt to repeat another story of a disabled person’s plight and the challenges that such an individual faces on a daily basis. From his first venture Khamoshi, where Mr Bhansali had Manisha Koirala playing a mute person, he  has focused on stories revolving around disabled people. “Guzarish” may be another attempt to repeat another story of a disabled person’s plight and the challenges that such an individual faces on a daily basis.

Amazing creativity:

Graphics help in communicating in a better manner:

       Be it an incident of bomb- blast in Mumbai, terror attacks or for that matter J. Dey’s death case, every issue of  mentioned above can be well demonstrated with illustration and graphics. Now here comes the question as to how do they help in communicating in a better manner than merely an image supporting the article. The answer being, when a common man who is illiterate, who can’t read and write; with the help of illustrations and graphics can figure out what exactly has happened.

If talking about the bomb- blast:

One can easily give a graphical representation of the series of bomb-blast by showing a train and the signs which show that a bomb-blast has occurred!

These are graphical representations

If taking an example of a train which got derailed:

One can show a train and a track which shows a train running out of track! So with this, any common lay man can understand what has happened. But if there is no graphical representation and only a picture showing a train, one can’t understand what exactly has happened! While talking about the bomb-blast we can show the series of bomb-blast that took place with numbers like 1, 2,3 4, 5, 6 along with the representation.

This helps in understanding the incident  pretty well.

To quote from Sanctuary's post of this Ad..

This advertisement states that, "Cut something else for a Change" which means that instead of cutting a tree for the advertisement, it is better if we start cutting something else and save trees!

To quote from Sanctuary's post of this Ad..
"It's time that some of Mumbai's hoardings were hacked to make way for trees, not the other way around."

To repeat Peter Griffins reaction to this...

"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all
~Ogden Nash"