Unsung Pandemic Warriors

Warrior a suffix was attached to the word COVID as this Pandemic Started. Entire purpose to attach this suffix was to show some respect and gratefulness for the fighters who have been helping us to take care of the every individual and the Country in the complete perspective.

The word started in reference of the Doctors who had been putting their and their family’s lives at risk for someone unknown with this infection. Later in time the word was looked in a little broader perspective. It was then referred to sanitation workers, police and for all those who have recovered from this infection.

But was this enough? We at Wonder Wisdom think there’s one more profession which is supposed to be included in this category of warriors but has skipped our eye.

This profession has an attribute of a doctor,
putting lives of their and their families every day.

This profession has an attribute of a police men,
even they don’t get enough holidays.

This profession has an attribute of a sanitation worker,
they have to wander around every ally of town to be honest to their work.

These people are Journalists.

This article is nothing more than just our way to show some respect to those Journalist who have not yet been recognized by the society in the category of Corona Warriors. 

Story Number 1

The land of Kanpur, India was blessed with a true patriot in the year, 1992. A boy named Neelanshu Shukla was born there. His life could not be as easy and comfortable as ours because his father died in a car crash when he was five. Being a member of a beautiful joint family (a concept only exists in India) they all cushioned him in and made him a brave and honest man just like his father would want him to be.

Entire family saw his potential and wanted him to sit for UPSC. The most prestigious occupation in our country but he had different dreams in his mind. He was pretty adamant of what he wanted to do which was journalism. “He loved politics and he had a very keen sense of what was happening on the ground,” said his best friend and a former colleague at NDTV, Saurabh Shukla. “He had that ability to find the right angle to cover every story”.

This urge to understand society and how politics works took him to a new path of thorns. After graduation in Mass Media Communication he worked as an unpaid intern in a local news agency at his hometown Kanpur. But his calibre and honesty towards his work helped him to bag a Job at NDTV. His potential was soon identified in the office as they kept promoting him till he became an assistant producers on one of their show. But his urge to be on ground and deliver news in the purest form to people brought him back to his roots of ground reporting.

His happiness was at peak. He was engaged to a beautiful preschool teacher and planned to tie a knot in December but then corona came in India. When corona kept us inside our homes, his work called him on the grounds. He kept going out relentlessly for just that we could consume what is to be called as Real news.

In spite of taking the precautionary measures the virus caught him and On September, 1 while he was young as 30. He had to take his last breath and left our world to be with his father.

(Source:- New York times)

Story Number 2

On 6th of July, campus of AIIMS Delhi fell silent as a loud voice took everyone’s attention “So, he probably first fell on the bathroom’s roof and then on the ground,” the security guard told.

Tarun Sisodhia (37) A journalist had committed suicide for unknown reasons.

Tarun was admitted to AIIMS Delhi as he was detected with infection of Covid-19. Being a young man his family believed him to get better and come back quickly to his parents, wife and two kids. But something unprecedented happened.

He told his family that he was being ill-treated in the hospitals and was also being shifted to multiple location unknown to him. He also stated that anybody (other than doctors and nurses) would come and administer him injection. Days later a Whatsapp screenshot surfaced on net where words like “muder ho sakta hai” was typed by him.

Hospital authorities have denied all these allegations. A probe has been ordered. It’s too soon to say what actually happened there. But one thing is certain that Tarun is no more.

(For complete story do read the article published by Newslaundry)

Story Number 3

Ashok Churi veteran journalist turned a social activist. To this date this beautiful soul has organised over 1,133 weddings since 1987 for under privilege tribal people and slum dwellers. He took the burden of those parents on his shoulders as for marriages they would take up loans and pay that back with their lives. He made those functions stress free for parents and blissful for their kids. He would also do “kanyadyaan” for many orphans brides at those weddings.

Such a beautiful and strong willed man he was. But after serving for 71 years in this world, not his will and soul but his body became weak and on August 7 he finally took his last breath in home at Palghar.

These are just three stories we could bring to you but there are lot more.

Ronnie Roy (sports photographer), Madhusudhan reddy, M parthasarthy(video journalists), Tamil Nadu television reporter Ramanathan, Orissa journalists namely Simanchal Panda, K Ch Ratnam, Priyadarshi Patnaik, Davinder Pal Singh,Manoj Kumar,Pankaj Kulashrestha, Somashekhar Yadavatti a senior journalist, and many more have succumbed to the death by this virus.

सुचना के पवित्रता के लिऐ जिने वाले पत्रकार जब मर जाते है।

 तो वह खुद सुचना बनने के लिए अपवित्र हो जाते है।

-Ravish Kumar

Reporters who work for the purity of news,

when die they become impure for the news to be reported in.

We don’t know about these Warriors because media channels are feeding us with what can be sold but nothing which is necessary.

The situation is exactly like a doctor not been assigned a bed in his own hospital when he falls sick.

This article is a tribute to the people who have been fighting and haven’t asked for due credit till now. We did beat the thali for doctors and donate for the sanitation workers and police. But we haven’t done anything for these people so far and this article is our attempt to thank them and their contribution for our society.

Guys we again need your help here to thank these warriors and their beautiful souls we need you to do something and that is to HELP.

Help anyone without any selfish reason, help does not have to be monetary but anything which is in your powers. Guide youngsters in right direction, help your elders in understanding technology and if you can’t do these then help your Mother Nature by planting a tree in the name of anyone written above. This would mean a lot to us and to them.

Do anything for the society you live in because that was the vision of these souls who dies for us.

If you choose do anything then please DM us with a picture and story behind it we would like to post it on our Instagram page wonder_wis just to let people know sacrifices of these warriors did not go in vain.

Do share this article and tell people about the Unsung Warriors of these pandemic.

Author                             Piyush Janbandhu

Co Author and Editor     Shruti Ramteke

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