Ex-judge Girdhar Malviya slams media over 'usless debates'

Justice (retd) Girdhar Malviya today took a dig at the country's media, saying it is "decrying" Hinduism and suggested it to protect the Indian culture instead of indulging in useless debates.
Speaking at a programme of 'Pathey Kan' magazine here, the grandson of freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya said that if a leftist is injured, the media talks about it for several days but when it comes to the martyrdom of soldiers and the situation in Kashmir, nothing like that happens.
"The Indian media is neglecting our culture which is wrong trend. Anything related with our culture is considered wrong. We should be proud of our culture and the media should also work to protect our culture," Malviya, a Allahabad High Court judge, said.

He said that the definition of secularism is now getting changed which is very disappointing.
"Secularism means equal treatment of all the religions (by the state) but the definition has changed. Secularism does not mean that you decry Hinduism and appreciate rest of the things. If anything happens in JNU or Hyderabad universities, there is a lot of hue and cry in the media but nothing (of that quantum) is written when our soldiers die or on the situation of Kashmir," he said.
He alleged that previous UPA government at the Centre was apathetic towards Hinduism.

Citing the example of Israel, Malviya said that people in Israel are very particular about the culture and no one can utter a single world against their culture.

"If we want to protect India, we will have to reunite with our culture," he said.
Before his address, Malviya launched the "Media of India" edition of the magazine.