Journalists are real detective     

                            

                             The world around has became a den of fast growing changes and evolutions. With the transforming social trends, and progressing economic fashions, the global scenario has indeed became a spectacle profound evolvement. The field of journalism which firmly and aptly reflects the transforming social scenario across the world has also immensely redefined itself. Formerly concerned only with informing people about the prevailing situations, journalism job is now elevated to becoming a global platform for creating news, rather than depicting just plain truth.

                              

                           There is mixture of political and investigative journalism in India they are the two main pillars of media and people are more interested in this type of journalism it not only increase the TRP of a particular channel or newspaper but people also develop the identity regarding journalists as a solider of the society that against all the illegal happening in the society and bring out truth in front of the people. Since the 1980s when investigative journalism emerged in India the Bofors scandal is considered one of the first and most influential pieces of Indian investigative journalism. This scandal involved the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who was accused of receiving kickbacks from the Bofurs Company. In 1996 another land mark case emerged when the story of the fodder scam broke. This scam again involved the Indian government as it was stated that embezzlement from the treasury of the Indian state Bihar has been ongoing.  The 2G spectrum, CWG scam and Adarsh society are the recent and successful cases of investigative journalism.   

                   

                            Modern investigative journalism is a discipline, rigorous and demanding. Modern journalism despite its many aberration, is considered the most effective monitor and upholder of democratic values. Democracy involves accountability of elected representatives and civil servants. There are many mechanisms for checks and balances, but these can be abused, circumvented, ignored or made ineffective. Investigative reporting steps in to this vacuum to scrutinise and expose the wrong – doings of those in authority which hurt public interest and make them accountable to the people.