Why I hate to be a journalist?

A student survival guide: To Kill a Mockingbird, is one of my favourite books

Very strong words… hate and journalist. Let me rephrase, why I hated to be a journalist after I joined a J-School? Well many reasons. I mistook or assumed journalism to be bold, true, loud and straight from the heart. It wasn’t so. It was a business of show-off, ultra-strong attitude and cowards.

I have seen people, at the J-school and outside, who kept quiet at obvious injustices. I know I am no one to judge what’s fair and what’s not. But when I said, they were obvious, they actually were obvious.

I felt, I was better as a wannabe journalist in DU. I wrote from heart if nothing else. Naming my Dean (Prof. Sagar) responsible for my disinterest in journalism isn’t a bold, I know. But inking on how he did it, would be speaking my mind out loud.

It took me days to figure out a Journalism school in India to study, took me months to convince my father to pursue it further. I did all successfully and got myself enrolled. In just a few months, my passion went to dogs. I don’t hold him responsible for not making me a good journalist (Probably, I wasn't meant to be), but definitely for killing a 'passion'.

He killed each POTENTIAL, INTERESTING, IMPORTANT stories of mine, with no valid reasons. How I wished, Aamir of Taare Zameen Par lived in every teacher’s heart.

By the way, I was kidding when I said, I was not meant to be good journalist. I still am. We live in Ekta Kapoor’s world of tele-soapism, everyone gets a re-birth, so was my passion:) There indeed was an Aamir of Taare Zameen Par in KP. He might have forgotten, but I remember him saying I can be a good journalist. This man knows to nourish every passion, his own and all the others with him. And from him I’ve learnt, it’s important to be a good human than a good ‘anything else’. Thanks KP.