Danish Siddiqui and his journalism – a non-hagiographical account

Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui on Friday was killed by the Taliban terrorists within the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar after he had been embedded with the Afghan particular forces to cowl the conflict between forces and Taliban fighters. Immediately after Danish’s demise, his left-liberal cabal comrades coalesced collectively and as a substitute of calling out the Talibani terrorists, engaged in petty squabbling with the Internet trolls and dubbed them as the explanation for his premature demise.Everyone killed Danish Siddiqui. Except Taliban.— Atul Mishra (@TheAtulMishra) July 16, 2021Moreover, the brigade, very similar to it does with each one in every of its kin, began to make a hero out of Danish. The photojournalist knew the dangers of going to the battlefield the place the enemy didn’t care if a journalist succumbed to demise because the collateral harm. It was the occupational hazard of the job and props must be given to him for having the steely nerves to proceed reporting from such dire situations.A courageous journalist lined:✓ Intolerance in India✓ Anti CAA Riots✓ Farmers Protests✓ COVID19 pandemicFor years, he survived in PM Modi’s India.Sadly, he couldn’t even survive two days in peaceable Afghanistan as he was murdered by International Peace Keeper TALIBAN.— C T Ravi 🇮🇳 ಸಿ ಟಿ ರವಿ (@CTRavi_BJP) July 17, 2021However, Siddiqui isn’t the primary journalist to have died whereas being on responsibility and positively not the best journalist that the nation has ever produced, because the left via its hagiographical obituary posts needs most people to consider.A fast look over his work reveals that Danish used the distress of the folks through the peak of the second wave of the pandemic to extend his enterprise. At a time when India was reeling with the unprecedented surge of the delta variant of the virus, some self-loathing Indians enrolled on the payrolls of ‘vested interests’ international publications, resorted to their ordinary type of reporting by portray a dystopian actuality utilizing aesthetic drone photographs of crematoriums to drive their agenda. And not surprisingly, the stated aesthetic photographs have been clicked by Danish.India is collapsing underneath the second wave and complacency, callousness and incompetence are killing us. I write on our hollowed out coronary heart for @washingtonpost https://t.co/uvGnRolwh8— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) April 23, 2021Read More: Finish India when it’s at its lowest. The message from the world and self-loathing Indians is loud and clearDanish’s photograph of Rohingya refugees seems to humanize their unlawful entry into the nation. And whereas detractors may say that Danish was merely doing his job, nobody has batted their eye for reporting the photograph of a migrant household leaving town on foot to achieve their village through the first lockdown. The mass exodus of migrants occurred however once more it boiled all the way down to the apathy of the state governments, greater than the centre because the likes of Kejriwal pushed them out whereas a pacesetter in Nitish Kumar refused to just accept them.Read More: Everyone besides Taliban killed Danish SiddiquiHowever, when photographs of North East Delhi riots pre-dominantly goal to focus on a selected neighborhood, one tends to query if the digital camera shutter solely labored when pointed at Hindu miscreants or it simply stopped enigmatically when the perpetrator was a Muslim. This is the place Danish’s legacy as a photojournalist was sealed.After Danish’s demise, the photograph of his lifeless physique began traversing the realms of social media platforms, and few liberal elites who had overtly endorsed the publication of images from the crematorium demanded that netizens not share the images, as they didn’t have the permission of the household.However, flummoxed by the duality of the liberals, netizens began sharing delicate pictures to reveal the hypocrisy. A funeral is a detailed matter for any household, not for a journalist solely. The identical decency wanted to be prolonged when funeral pyre photographs have been circulated with a lot vitriol.An outdated tweet of Danish has additionally surfaced the place he could be seeing cussing Hindus for celebrating Diwali because the ‘crackers’ have been ‘killing’ him.Hmm, if you wish to perceive the which means of ‘irony’, look no additional! The tweet has since been deleted. pic.twitter.com/M61zbfdPmX— Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 (@ShefVaidya) July 17, 2021However, in what could be termed as a merciless flip of destiny, Danish’s grieving household and its footage are being bought on Getty photos for a worth as excessive as Rs 23,000. Perhaps, it would clarify to fanatics on either side of the political spectrum that the demise and distress of 1 is revenue for an additional. And these sneering and jeering on the photographs of crematoriums and now Danish ought to get their act proper.There isn’t any the Aristocracy in standing down your fellow human beings. If Danish had stored the ethics of his occupation alive and shunned publishing the contentious photograph, he wouldn’t have obtained such divisive goodbye.