D P Satish

February , 2009

Tuesday , February 10, 2009

How Media Made Muthalik


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Mangalore is the flavour of the season. It is now more famous than Madrid! Muthalik is hogging the headlines across India. Is he just a media creation or a real self made ' Hindu ' leader? I am sure not many people (including the majority in media) knew him before his goons in the garb of ' Rama Sainiks ' dragged and mercilessly thrashed girls at a pub in Mangalore, a fortnight ago. This nation wide publicity was totally unexpected for Muthalik and his brigade. Attack on a pub in Mangalore was just a routine matter and they were expecting a photo and three paragraphs in some local newspapers the next day. Even in his wildest dreams, Muthalik didn't expect that all hell would break lose, the next day. Muthalik was not a known name even in his home state Karnataka till his ' monkey ' brigade vandalised and beat....


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D P Satish has been a journalist for the past 11 years. Born at picturesque Jog Falls in Shimoga district of Karnataka, Satish did his graduation in English Literature. He is a post-graduate in Journalism from the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Bangalore (now in Chennai). After a brief stint with the Indian Express Group, he shifted to TV. He also worked for an American news magazine called ' Image '. He has widely travelled and covered some of the biggest events from South of Vindhyas in the first decade of the 21st century. He is passionate about English literature, classical music, cinema, history, photography, jazz and Cricket. A self-proclaimed centrist, Satish keenly follows major political developments from across the World. He blogs regularly and spends hours searching for readable material from the Internet! He belives that journalism is a calling and a person meant to be a journalist, can't escape from it. A hillman at heart and by birth, Satish lives and works in New Delhi. But, loves Bangalore more than Delhi!
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