17 March 2007

My view on the "Last Photo"

When some VIPs or a known person dies in his or her eighties usually the news papers publish a photograph of that person with flowers all around his body, two white cotton plugs in the nostrils and many times a bandage to get hold of the jaws. This often gives a very nauseating image of the person who has left for the heavenly abode to the people who know him or don’t know him or her. When Ms.Nandini Satpathy and Prof.M.S.Khadanga two of the famous personalities of Orissa expired, the Oriya papers carried photographs which no well wisher of these personalities would like to see.

On the contrary, a famous actor who died recently in USA , the photograph which was carried by Indian news papers was from a time when was forty or fifty years old and not when he was on his way to the burial ground or his body lied in State for the public. I would request the Media to keep a good photographs of all famous people in their respective fields and publish it in case of sad demise , instead of that horrifying mummy like photograph where every one looks alike.

Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Satpathy

B/188 sector 18,Rourkela.

India,769003

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