THE Solo Creative Arts Foundation’s “THE POETRY SCHOOL OF INDIA” was launched today by Shri D.H. Shankara Murthy, Chairman, Karnataka Legislative Council, at Bangalore Press Club, Bangalore. Famous Kannada poets Prof. G.S. Siddalingaiag and Dr. P.V. Narayan graced the occasion amidst a large number of gathering in the presence of Dr. Mohammed Fakhruddin, the Principal and “Poet-in-Residence” of The Poetry School of India as well as Dr. Dodda Range Gowda who is the “Poet-in-Residence” to teach the Art of Writing Poetry in Kannada language. Dr. Mohammed Fakhruddin will teach as many as 34 different poetic forms in English language.
A bad trend of journalism has crept in recently which needs drastic curb by the editors and management of the newspaper industry.
The above event took place on 16th of August at the Bangalore Press Club and the invitations were sent to the media also.
The next day of the event some of the Kannada newspapers carried the news but deleted the name of the principal and “Poet-in-Residence” name Dr. Mohammed Fakhruddin. The readers of the Kannada newspapers were rather surprised to find bias reporting. Some of them telephoned the editors of those Kannada newspapers to know the reason.
Surprisingly, none of the English-language newspapers did care to report the news in their columns.
The ethics of journalism is not being followed nowadays by the reporters’ community in Bangalore city. The Editors and the management of the newspapers who are not aware of this trend should be vigilant and try to inculcate discipline and ethics of journalism, says a veteran Kannada poet and writer.
