Least qualified media persons are changing the meaning of the words of the highly academic dictionaries of the world in both India and Pakistan

Media’s misquoting the term ‘martyr’ in India and in Pakistan proves the role of media in ignorance.

Since last ten-fifteen years, the term “martyr” was and is in use in the most at the time of deaths in India and in Pakistan in general in India in particular. Because the attack or firing from the out side of the borders of the respective states in which the deaths were casual and normal while in securing the borders for the respective security personnel either by Indian forces or Pakistani forces. Each of them have the national spirit against each and on violation of the lines they know and face the consequences of each against each and confront each other in firing or in attacking the deaths were and are happening at the borders of the India and Pakistan . This is the situation at the border posts of India and Pakistan .

The Kashmir, which is known as the head to the body of Indian state where the infiltration of the Pakistani forces and its supported armed forces on the name of independent Kashmir in the Kashmir origin wages war against Indian government since the days back to the independence of the India and Pakistani states in 1947. Several attacks were carried out and killed many hundreds and thousands of people on the name of independent Kashmir and the same attempts were failed and still proved to gain the strength over Kashmir and Indian forces there in Indian Kashmir. On the deaths in others hands the press and media used to report the deaths on two sides of the security personnel in its name and their nativities by location in order to pass the information to the world by the press at that time. The misuse of words started from the period of bjp government. Especially from the time of kargil war with Pakistani and India forces during the year of 1999, in which the Indian media and people under the national spirit called those who had been killed at the hands of Pakistani forces. Of course, with the support of the political background of the nda government the media used the name to the war heroes, shahid. Then at the time of national spirit in which all the limits and barriers were erased and allowed to support the border security personnel and all media in India in English they called ‘martyred’ and put them under ‘martyrdom’. And next time during the attack on parliament in which few personnel were killed and the media including all leaders used the same words ‘shahid’ used in the similar way. Since then that time in each and in every incident from inside attacks by the local extremists in which those security personnel were killed the same repetitive words are in use whether intentionally or ignorantly as a routine by the all the leaders especially the India media. Including I the global people including all Indians do not have any objection over the use or misuse of the words. But here in the question about the true dictionary meanings of the word martyr is available in all most all the global dictionaries. Let us have a look over its true meaning by setting a side the media and its practice in India .

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Anwers.com says the meaning of word ‘martyr’ in the following manner.

One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis.
One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.
 

Britannica concise encyclopedia which says as follows

‘Person who voluntarily suffers death rather than deny his or her religion. Readiness for martyrdom was a collective ideal in ancient Judaism, notably in the era of the maccabees and its importance has continued into modern times .roman Catholicism sees the suffering of martyrs as a test of their faith. Many saints of the early church underwent martyrdom during the persecutions of the Roman emperors. Martyrs need not perform miracles to be canonized. In Islam, martyrs are thought to comprise two groups of the faithful: those killed in jihad and those killed unjustly. In Buddhism, a bodhisattva is regarded as a martyr because he voluntarily postpones enlightenment to alleviate the suffering of others.’

The word tutor is said about the meaning of martyr is as followed.

A person who chooses to suffer or die rather than give up his or her religion or beliefs. Also: A person who suffers silently for a long time.

The president bill Clinton has given the colorful meaning to the word’ martyr’ in his style of administration to support his policies in his home and all the world in his words which are as followed
He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can’t let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves. — Bill Clinton

The ex-president of Pakistan mr. perwaiz musharraf has called the Kashmir militants as freedom fighters during his rule. Now under the present rule, the Pakistani security forces and right wing Islamic fundamentalists are fighting each other and loosing the armed personnel of the two sides. So the Pakistani media is calling to those who lost their lives at the hands of the fundamentalists, as ‘martyrs’. At the same time the fundamentalists also claiming the same word martyr to their armed cadre in Pakistan . In the strict sense of the dictionaries, for its true meaning is confusing. Because the media persons do not have much academic credibility to believe them and trust their practices both in their real and professional lives to understand the real face of the news and the content they like to telecast from the studios. Hence the meaning of the word ‘martyr’ cannot be taken from the news readers but it is better to go to dictionaries for true meanings.

In India , the Hindi channels are in such practice to ascribe even normal death of any security personnel they call them martyr without any hesitation.

In Andhra Pradesh, the telugu channels have a great history about their programs. All most all telugu channels were started the crime stories with horrifying scenes and terrifying anchoring dress and their languages on which one individual has filed a case in high court, Hyderabadobjecting about these stories in andhra pradesh. On the petition Hon’ justice ordered to stop the crime stories. This has proved that how the telugu media lost its credibility and value in the society for the most irresponsible attitude towards society and the people. During the rise of telangana agitation in Andhra Pradesh, more than four hundred suicide deaths are taken place from all sections in telangana districts. Majority of the death are from the students section in all telangana districts. The artists, writers and stage performers of telangana all have written songs in glorifying the death in local telugu dialect ‘virulara’ and ‘amarulara’. So the telugu media also followed the way with the telangana agitators. At the same time, on the important incidents such as on the deaths of security personnel at the hands of Maoists, they use to call them martyrs to the security personnel who died in the attack or in encounters in different parts of the country. On such incidents too the local media is calling them as ‘amarulu’. On the other hand, on the deaths of their cadre the call their men who died at the hands of security forces, they also use to call ‘martyrs’ and the local media call them as the same. Consequently non academic media is changing the meanings of the words in the world’s popular dictionaries which are run by the highly qualified authorities of the subjects.

Viki has the detailed through the religious meanings applied from the time of the use of the word ‘martyr’ from Judaism to Sikhism. But the real meaning for the use of word ‘martyr’ used by Indian and Pakistani including telugu , would never be found anywhere in all major dictionaries for the true meaning. Hence it is necessary to change the meaning of word ‘martyr’ in all major dictionaries according to the applications of the words of the media.

Ayub Mohammed