Mangalore: Media must support the moderate voices in the society which however are very few in number, said eminent film maker Mahesh Bhatt.

Inaugurating the readers’ convention of Vartha Bharathi Kannada Daily as part of its decennial celebrations in Mangalore on September 14, Friday, he said  media should never act puppets at the hands of the power centre. He also regretted the fact  that the media today goes after what interests the nation rather than what is in the interest of the nation.

Jnanpeeth Award winning writer Prof. U R Ananthamurthy, said the society must stop generalizing things He also expressed his displeasure over TV channels taking up for  discussion each and every topic while certain issues such as democracy and communalism are beyond discussion, he said.

A Special issue brought out  to commemorate the decennial was released by  Prof. Ananthamurthy.

B M Basheer, News Editor, Vartha Bharathi, Abdussalam Putthige, Editor-in-Chief, Yaseen Malpe, HM Affroz Assadi,  Directors, Madhyama Communications Ltd. Mangalore, welcomed. Aga Sultan, Former Member, AICTE, VTU and Bangalore University, Syed Abdul Kader Bashu, Managing Trustee, Green Valley National School and PU College, Shiroor