Newspaper, Still a need??

‘Newspaper’, with this word what comes to everybody’s mind is a morning scene where one is sitting calmly and going through the day to day news. Newspaper are read in so many ways, some start from the first page with the main news first and then go about reading till the end, some starts reading from the last page, some are interested in some particular pages like Sports, Political news, Page 3 so they directly open that page so all in all newspaper is very good medium for satisfying reading habits for some and to know about the world for others, for old people it is a very good time pass and also gives them lot of topics of discussion among the people of there age when they sit together in some park. So you agree or not but this newspaper reading is like an addiction for the people who read it everyday, if some day hawker did’nt deliver the newspaper or on the days when there are public holidays and newspapers are not published you don’t feel like that the day has started as there is no newspaper. Although all these news you can watch in the news channels also but they never seems to be replacing newspaper.

But a question that I comes to mind is that do we really need the paper type newspaper, can’t we do without it as because if I am correct, highest numbers of newspaper copies printed are in India only so imagine how much paper must have been required for it daily and how many tree must be getting cut because of that. I strongly feel that we all should seriously think about it and minimize the use of paper as much as we can.

We should start considering other alternatives of newspaper like news channel, internet, e-papers, radio that we can rely on. Although I agree that replacing such strong medium of broadcasting information will not at all be easy. At the time when we started relying on newspaper I don’t think we had any other such medium of broadcasting but now the times have changed, at that time there were enough trees also so we must not have even thought of stopping it but not now. Now neither we have enough trees and nor the scarcity of any other medium so we can smoothly transition to some other medium that will not impact our environment. I think we all should think it over and do something from our side to help the cause.

Lets save our national animal, the Tiger

Everywhere there have been talks about the number of tigers left in India is now just 1411, I saw hoardings on the road, ads in the TV, newspaper and various internet sites, this is an astonishing fact and this is for all of us to understand what we are doing to our mother nature. Its not that something big will happen if this number doesn’t increase, mankind has already lost so many animal species that we can’t even count nor it will make any big difference in our day to day lives. We are so busy that if something is not affecting our daily routines we are not concerned about that but I feel this thought has to be changed and every one of us should do something about our natural vegetation also. All of us should be involved in something or other thing to save our environment from getting erased. Although we think that even if the tigers get extinct from India why should we bother as it is not impacting us but if we spend few minutes thinking over this topic we will understand that it definitely impact all of us. Imagine a country where the count of their national animal is 0, isn’t it a shame for all of us as Indians. When we will teach our kids that “Tiger is our national animal” will we be able to show them real tiger… it will be just left in pictures. Not having tigers will have impact on the ecological balance of nature also, no tigers mean more deers and more deers mean more grass and plants required by them for eating and that will result in the erasing of jungles from our land and I don’t think we are ready for that.
Its not that nothing has been done till now but since our independence or may be before that also we are saying that tigers are getting extinct and till now nothing has improved, number is constantly coming down. Govt. has started so many projects for saving tigers but they have not yielded the expected results, so I think there should be some new rules which should be stricter for the poachers who are the main culprit, when a tiger kills a man we call it ‘man-eater’ and then we get a license to kill him publicly but what when a man kills the tiger without any reason then also the law should be more strict in handling that. Although I feel along with Govt. it is the responsibility of each Indian to help in this cause, we all should raise the awareness about this issue.
So many people are joining this tiger saving initiative at www.saveourtigers.com and facebook’s Stripey the Cub so I hope things will improve.