PR is Public Relations and today, by any reckoning, the people's perception of what Delhi has become is BAD...
And why should it be so? The dastardly acts of violence against women that have been so highlighted by all and sundry have sullied our reputation beyond redemption...
And what is it that we are doing about it??? Creating a mess .... Making a bad thing worse...
The person angst that I suffer as an individual as well as that as a PR professional is possibly felt by numerous like me and we all sit on our backsides doing nothing!!!
And the question is What can we do??? As an individual as well as a community???
Okay, so I dont know but I desperately want to do something... We need to collectively get our act together and make a change and the Government - Central as well as Delhi, needs to start doing something too...
Ideas are welcome and lets make this not just another flash in the pan and forget all about it when the next controversy strikes but do something to make the city and society safe for women...
My colleague, Raakesh Kapoor, wrote a very interesting piece and here is the link: http://rakeshkapoor.blogspot.in/2013/04/the-great-indian-circus_23.html for his latest write-up...
What he is trying to bring out is that it is not just Delhi which is a villian but increasingly our society which is turning brutal, insensitivive and therefore bestial at times.
I firmly believe that sullying a city while not over-looking the basic underlying issues of lack of sensitivity etc can be very short term - so Today it is Delhi, tomorrow it could be Jakarta, day after Winnipeg, etc. The whole world could be the losers in this naming game, if we dont do anything soon...
And why should it be so? The dastardly acts of violence against women that have been so highlighted by all and sundry have sullied our reputation beyond redemption...
And what is it that we are doing about it??? Creating a mess .... Making a bad thing worse...
The person angst that I suffer as an individual as well as that as a PR professional is possibly felt by numerous like me and we all sit on our backsides doing nothing!!!
And the question is What can we do??? As an individual as well as a community???
Okay, so I dont know but I desperately want to do something... We need to collectively get our act together and make a change and the Government - Central as well as Delhi, needs to start doing something too...
Ideas are welcome and lets make this not just another flash in the pan and forget all about it when the next controversy strikes but do something to make the city and society safe for women...
My colleague, Raakesh Kapoor, wrote a very interesting piece and here is the link: http://rakeshkapoor.blogspot.in/2013/04/the-great-indian-circus_23.html for his latest write-up...
What he is trying to bring out is that it is not just Delhi which is a villian but increasingly our society which is turning brutal, insensitivive and therefore bestial at times.
I firmly believe that sullying a city while not over-looking the basic underlying issues of lack of sensitivity etc can be very short term - so Today it is Delhi, tomorrow it could be Jakarta, day after Winnipeg, etc. The whole world could be the losers in this naming game, if we dont do anything soon...
I agree. One way is to harness the potential of the Social Media. I just read a post on how Cuba overcame its illiteracy in the 60's by stopping all schools for a year and asking everyone who was educated untill 6th and upwards to teach the illiterate. If each one of us tries to take only one person under their wings we can probably make a difference
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