{"id":4016,"date":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/03\/2004-03-03-plan-to-start-journalism-school-in-bangalore\/"},"modified":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-03T12:00:00","slug":"2004-03-03-plan-to-start-journalism-school-in-bangalore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/03\/03\/2004-03-03-plan-to-start-journalism-school-in-bangalore\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Start Journalism School in Bangalore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GERMANY, March 3, 2004: Journalist Francois Gautier sends the following report.

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\n“As you know one of the biggest problems today is that Indian journalists are not always proud of their own culture and roots and, as result, tend to have a very negative outlook on India, which, in turn, influences Western correspondents posted in India. It is therefore very important that we train a new generation of Indian journalists. It is for this purpose that we have started a new school of journalism in Bangalore called the Sri Sri Center for Media studies. There, we teach the best of journalistic knowledge, both print and electronic, along with classes (which I take myself) on Indian history and the ideal of true journalism. There is also a little bit of coaching in pranayama and meditation, two ancient Indian sciences which impart a good and intuitive mind.

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\n“Unfortunately, there is a lot of competition both within India as well as Bangalore, and schools such as the Asian school of journalism, sponsored by the newspaper the Hindu and the BBC, which form journalists in the old secular\/Marxist mold, have many more students and funds than we do. Now what we need is students, and this is where you can help. We see today that US correspondents based in India are often very hostile to our ideals. If you could send some of your children, whether they are first, second or third generation Americans, to our school, we would coach them, and when they go back to the States they can enter mainstream newspapers and after acquired some experience, they could ask to be posted to India, having a natural advantage over white Americans, by being of an Indian origin and hopefully speaking Indian languages. In a few years time, the entire India coverage in the States could see a very important shift. At the moment we only offer a one-year post graduation course, but eventually we will have a three years complete graduate course. Next session is in July and we need 35 students to break even and not lose money as we have done the last three years. I must emphasize that a journalistic career is very rewarding not only in view that you get to travel a lot, meet interesting people, but also that it is one of the highest seva you can do for India, as journalists today are the most important people in the world! It is time that all of you start thinking about other careers for your children than doctors or software engineers! For further information go to ‘source’ above.”<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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