Media Does Manthara Poem by S.D. TIWARI

Manthara is a character in the epic Ramayana.
She is a maid and to the queen Kaikayee very faithful.
She is cunning, diplomatic, could create contentions;
she believes in the policy of divide and rule.

She poisons mind of Kaikayee to induce to demand -
throne of Ayodhya for her son and exile to Rama.
To fulfill her wily goals, she divides the royal family
and creates controversy by playing diplomatic drama.

Now, media is too indulged in doing Manthara;
creates controversy to make the news sensational.
Sometimes, presents the news coated with colour
and to prove it true and good, makes squabbles.

Manthara’s jurisdiction was limited to imperial family
and her aim was purely personal.
Media has wide spectrum to peep into any one
having the goals of commercial and political.

Media makes the news, cooks the news;
sometimes forgets, left heating on the oven.
When it starts burning and smelling foul;
media starts showering the water, then.

Manthara had caught hold just ears of the issue;
Media catch holds the legs, twists and breaks.
Serves to their audience in own wrapper,
when its original figure, completely de-shapes.

Media makes news, makes it cold or sunny,
sometimes makes it honey, sometimes funny,
sometimes bigger than mountains, sometimes tiny;
it does all the doable, because it makes money.

- S. D. Tiwari