In an era when 'responsible journalism' is plausibly standing on the edge of extinction, journalists like P. Sainath have proved of deriving contentment and making a good living by only writing fairly on authentic issues and serious difficulties of those that ought to be delivered to the readers; writing for reading and reacting that is technically called 'Journalism'.

"Journalism must go back to the trenches and rediscover its ethics", says Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ethics of journalism, like moral values taught in childhood are only to be written in the exam's answer paper, and kindly, not in the newspaper. News means something that's new to the readers like 'a man buying a sim card worth millions', or 'a snake fighting a dog' or 'a sadhu feeding on mud'. Unworthy and useless stories of a many thousand rural farmers killing selves or a few million families displaced due to flood, must be compressed into tablets under 'newsdigest' in the inside pages, to be read togreet in sleep.

Indian journalism has always been acclaimed for its rooted ethics like fearless, unbiased and selfless. Writers like RajaRam Mohan Roy, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, S. Sadanand, Sham Lal, to name a few of the many, who comprehended the real value of journalism, as a voice, as a leader in awakening the mass and leading the society for a responsible and progressive tomorrow. Journalism they would say is "selfless service to the society".

Journalism was the profession of the 'sensible-s' who believed in the 'potential' and 'impact' that journalism has on the readers; creating awareness.

and making the readers responsible of their duties. Journalism was then "the watch-dog of the society", "the mirror of the society" and 'service to humanity'.

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