News makers or nation breakers?

Our news channels are now increasingly become one-sided.  It looks like they are busy promoting certain political parties, creating judgements and not reporting facts.  News papers and channels in any country owns a huge responsibility.  They are supposed to be reporting facts and also being sensitive to what they are reporting.  Strangely, I feel that they are creating more damage to this country than anyone else could.

The loud voice and funny arguments, capturing small phrases in the complete sentence and promoting it as something else, forcing few words from few leaders and talking from their mouth, getting into matters like religion and making their judgements, defining the new meaning of various words like freedom, secularism, rights, etc, promoting modernism vs values, reporting facts like crime/horror stories!  It’s really very saddening.

The only hope and prayers is that there are few honest reporters still in our country and they are not being rubbed and brushed by the money power of political parties. 

Also, are the public in India all educated illiterates that they don’t understand what is happening?  or Are we all scared to put our views black and white?  Hmmm…. we are just getting bad to verse with media… day after day and month after month. :(

Loudspeakers!!!

India is a secular country where the minorities are empowered and the majority is forced to shut up.  Trust me, although I belong to the majority and live in a country which was originally mine, I feel like a second citizen of my own country.  A country where few of my friends are getting converted, few are under the masks and the rest are scared to voice an opinion like me.  Oh well, somewhere the silence breaks open. :(

I feel like asking the government loud and clear… Why should I go through this?  Knowing the facts of the country has become so painful.  Why is there a quota for everything?  Should it not be merit?  My beautiful India… well, I prefer to call it Bharat(because Hindustan is secular), is today broken into quotas for various religions, various castes and sub-castes.  Looks like there is no more scope for merit and genuinely of candidature.  If there is anything left, I am sure that we are seeing the dieing phase of it. 

Also, most of the times, I see the abuse of the word secular.  To me today, secular looks like a smart word used to shut the voice of the majority of this country.  Anything that the majority does and its right, it’s called to be very narrow-minded and against the spirit of the secular country.  However, we are okay with increasing number of the minorities.  How is the minority becoming a majority slowly?  May be because -

  • There is some massive conversion model, where people are forced to be what they are not…  Does religion not come by origin???
  • Like the british divided and ruled… they have divided the majority in various religions, regions, linguists, cultures, genders and then ruling. 
  • The family control measure of India is only applicable to the majority.
  • We have lot of foreigners migrating and we have no control on it.
  • Is there some major murder of the majority happening somewhere and we are not aware?

Somewhere, the whole minority and majority has become so political and hence brought in this differentiated feeling.  We were so united few decades back…. when although we belonged to various communities we lived like brothers.  Today the feeling is vanishing… thanks to the great effort made by media and our government of India.  I am so sure, there are few of the minorities emerging today, who no more feel Indian!  They must be feeling like they belong to some other country and are foreigners here.  :/  I am foreseeing a breaking India… If this continuous, it’s not far in future that we will witness a civil war.  :(

When these various thoughts passed by my mind for many days now… I decided to be speak loud!!!  However, I think its time to go silent again and digest the facts!

Mile Sur Mera Tumara

On the occasion of Republic day, there is one good thing the entertainment industry did. Its gifted us the new version of Mile Sur Mera Tumara.  Its definately refreshed all the old DD National memories.  This new song is almost 10 minutes long;  sung in various tones, languages and with various instruments.  This new track starts with AR Rehman’s melody and Amitab Bachan’s majestic voice.  Shaan, Shreya, Sonu Nigam, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Shankar Ehsaan Loy have sung this new song in various tunes.  It is also featuring many artists from the bollywood and they have tried to cover few of the regional artists also.  It’s a good attempt this Republic day.  I think, thats a real great move… :-)

 The old version has covered many languages with much simpler and non repetitive lyrics.  The video also covers Indians as simple people.  It’s very pleasant feel to see the old one.  Ofcourse, Lata Mangeshkar and Bhimsen Joshi singing from their hearts put in a soul to the song.

My first feel was that I liked the old one better, however, after listening to this couple of times, I seem to be liking this as well.  Ofcourse, Old is Gold…

If you want to hear to this new track click here.  And yes, if you want to check out the old track click here

Happy Republic Day!

Media from bad to worse!

Early in the morning, people on their TV’s to understand the whats in news.  Whats really happening around them and bla bla… While the men read news papers, women like me might want to have the news channel ON so that we are updated with news while we are busy in the kitchen.

I made one such attempt today and was very curious to know how is the flood conditions in Karnataka.  I kept swapping between NDTV and CNN IBN to just find a one liner – “Floods in North Karnataka receding”.  While the news channels are covering the following news in main stream -

  1. Aamir Khan is going to colleges and advertising his movie 3 idiots ( Wow… what an important thing to know in the morning!)
  2. Gauri Khan is shy ( Ahhh… oh ya…. ???  Thats interesting)
  3. Arjun Rampal is in London ( So, what do we do???)
  4. Katrina Kaif is the brand ambassador for Royal Challengers and she was dancing ( Wow… Is that more important that all who lost homes)
  5. China is a competitor to us… guess why?  People there are learning Hindi and Bharatanatyam ( Ok… I can at least digest this one)

It’s really surprizing, such a huge calamity has hit us and there is not even a proper coverage.  Is this is the same media who made a HUGE NEWS of swine flu because around 4-5 ppl lost their life… Open your EYES… more than 170 people have lost their life.  More than 4 lakh families have lost their homes…. Is it something that does not bother them?

It’s really very sad state.  I want to end this blog with a message for our MEDIA in their style… “WAKE UP #%**%^$@#”

Perfect Bride!???!!!!

What kind of sick reality shows do we come up with? Just happened to watch this for the 2nd time to understand what really goes on in this. Cant believe that people have forgotten the traditional arrange marriage and also the beautiful love marriage styles… What is this arranging a love marriage???  Some kind of short cut????  Humiliating womanhood??? Arey… stop the crap and do something good.

5 guys doing some task and winning it to get to date one lady of their choice.  5 “could be mother in laws”  trying to cook and give free gyan to other young prospective brides.  The sons miss their mothers who stay just across the road.  Girls get to meet their sister or someone once a while and the emotional drama :-)   my didi gave me Ganapathi… cry cry cry…  But the cry converts to full cheer in 2 minutes when the get a chance to play basket ball???????????????????  Wow!  Cant believe that. Is basket ball such an exciting game that helps you choose your groom?

Please dont watch it…  Spare yourself of it.   Have mercy on self.

Media Today!

Today’s entertainment media is about the reality shows and some saga stories that goes on for years together.  If you “on” the TV, you will end up swapping channels continuously until finally you compromise to stick to one program.  The entertainment value has gone down.  The quality/standard of stuff coming on TV has gone much lower or may be I have just lost the taste to catch up with what happens in TV off late.  :-)

The interesting side of media today is that News Channels are now trying to portray themselves as some entertainment channel.  They have shows in which they try to project themselves as some union leaders and collect opinions and run some shows which are so partial in nature.  They look biased towards religion, race, politics, philosophy … everything.  They have enhanced their skills in creativity and seem to not be reporting news, however, making up some news also.  Some of their shows seem to be giving tough competition to lawyers and judges.  Sometimes I pinch myself to check if this is true.  :-D

Well, over few weeks now, I find myself glued to some of these news channels and end up criticizing them.  They definitely have moved from “Press” to “Entertainment” for me.  Where is the “Press” then?

Ah… there is this new line of social service one can get into now.  Can we have a media which is into “Reporting Facts… ” :-)

Kasturi

I am not too much of a tele soap watcher, thanks to the hectic life :-) Cooking, Household and office drains all the energy to see tele soaps. All I look for is some good music shows and dance competitions.
However, last few days I started following this serial… “Kasturi”. I think it is well made and amazing. The values of love, belongingness and partership is well potrayed in this serial. I like the idea of them teaching the younger generation some good values in partnership of life with spouse. It very well potrays how the “ideal couple” in the soap support each other through good and bad times… Hats off…
At last, there is one more good tele soap… I hope it continuous to be good and does not become a poor storyline in days to come. Actually, this is the problem with many of the tele soaps.

India Vs West Indies

Last week I happened to watch the India Vs West Indies series. Neo sports advertisements took me by a shock more than anything else. There were a series of advertisements that wanted to give a message that West Indies team is going to have tough time playing with the Indian team. However, the message was shot inappropriately.
There is one advertisement where in a West Indian eats chilli sauce in a dhaba and runs for water; table to table, from the young to the old… finally to the wash basin also, and people there refuse to give him water. One more advertisement were in a boat rower leaves a West Indian couple in between a big river and jumps off from the same and swims away. This is so much un-Indian. Our culture talks about we being good hosts…
On one hand we project advertisements about our rich culture promoting Indian tourism and on the other hand we are countering our ancient values of being a good host. This is very unfortunate…
Now, there is another series of advertisements coming up…. “It is tough being a Sri Lankan in India”…. I would say… welcome West Indies, welcome Sri Lanka… Hope you have a great time in India! And ofcourse… we will give a good fight in the field.

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