The print and visual media have very far-reaching effects on the minds of people, particularly youngsters. Value education is a must at home, in school and everywhere. Sadly, most of our films, TV serials, fiction and even cartoon shows have started glorifying crime.
Youngsters enjoy sadism and love to watch fights.
Even our epics, which are televised, are watched by many young people for the way violence is portrayed on screen, while the morals are lost. Comedy too is becoming gross by the day. Instead of making life lighter, comedy is becoming vulgar and rude. The idea of a joke is to make the reader laugh while driving home a message. R K Laxman's cartoons do exactly that.