"Saach ka Saamna"

Satymeva Jayate

There is enough ado about the TV program "Saach ka Samna". Let me admit, i have not seen a single episode of this program. However, i was trying to gather some knowledge about this program from the newspaper. Is it possible to face the truth this way... 

When a child does something wrong and runs to his Mom and whispers in her ears "Mamma.. i have done something wrong... ", that is what we can call "Saach ka samna...". When a person goes to temple or church, sits in front of God and weepingly confesses..."Oh Lord! I have done something wrong... Please pardon me...", that can be called "Saach ka saamna..." When the husband confesses about his wrong doings in front of his wife in the cozy corner of his home, that is "Saach ka saamna..." Because that is when we speak out our conscience... 

There are differences between fact findings and truth findings. There is always two sides of an action or a thought...One is the fact and the other is the truth behind that fact... 

It reminds me of one of his famous poems of Tagore called 

"Debotar Graas".

In this poem after getting pissed off, the mother of a child uttered "Chol tore diye asi sagorer jole..." meaning that she would like to immolate her child in the river... But in Tagore's own words "Sunecho ki mukher katha...Sononi ki jananir antorer katha...", meaning these were the words of her mouth, but not the words from the heart of a mother... 

Now the fact is that she did utter those cruel words to her son, but the truth is that she never meant that...

So what is the truth and what is the fact behind those words from a mother? 

When a poor person takes the first bribe in his life, he sells out his dignity. Probably it hurts him more than had he not taken the bribe...So the fact is that the guy indeed took bribe... but did he really want to do that? 

I strongly believe that a man dies as many times as his dignity is hurt. When a person confesses in front of the TV camera and lie detector and becomes fully aware of his importance for speaking out the truth, it does not remain "Saach ka Samna"... it becomes another short cut to earn some quick bucks and grab the lime light... 

Then at most it can be termed as one of the many so-called reality shows or fact finding shows, glued wrongly against the backdrop of truth...but not the "Saach ka Saamna"....

because it presents facts... not the real truth...