Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Lets have Suda Suda Dosai and avoid Suda Suda News

Blog time finally arrived with the agitations in Andhra brought all of us a 2 days forced holiday. Finally after a couple of weeks found some leisure time to catch up with some news and good articles in Metro Plus and Education Plus. Sipping a cup of coffee, enjoying an amazing combination, the chill morning breeze, the smell of the print, mom's suvayaana sambar and crispy suda suda dosai. While glancing the paper, I came across an amazing Ad by Amul, "Slice butter, but not the country", there was a picture of India and a golden ring like the one around Saturn, which symbolically represented United India. There was also a caption in addition to all this, "A state of Bliss". Just a couple of statements, but the Ad spoke a lot. Appreciate the man who thought of it. I drove my dad to his office, he wanted to pick up some of his papers, so that he could work at home. While we drove back I was reminded of one of the issues Bharkha Dutt was debating on last evening on NDTV. I have always had great regards for her, because she was one of the reporter present at the Kargil. I felt she was a sensible journalist. Last night after some provocative discussions with the Congress and BJP leaders, she switched topic to Hemanth Karkare's case, who was the martier in 26/11 attack at the Taj Hotel. Bharkha was talking to his wife about the tragic incident. The case was about some sweeper having disposed his bullet proof jacket in the trash. Was is a cover up story or was it really true and in that case who was that sweeper, and how he is involved in the case. It is always possible that Hemanth's wife is not interested in investigating her husband's demise. Amidst the greif and trauma, Bharkha kept provoking as to how she would fight the battle to find out the truth. The moment she used the words, fight and battle, I realized, how insensible she was. Such words provoke any human's subconscious mind and such words would evoke desperation in the woman's mind. As one of the CEO's she might be using her education and experience very well to improve the TRP rating of "The Buck Stops Tonight", but as a human she has lost her modesty. This is so typical of any media these days. I appreciate Obama, when a couple barged into White House, during a dinner meeting, it was blown out of proportion, calling it a security lapse. Obama closed the case and said, we should stop doing the post event analysis and should look at how to strengthen the security than spending our time on this loose talk. 

In Iraq, with all the havok and unpleasant scenario, even today, the news headlines in all the news papers is a positive statement. Hope is the essence of life and lets not ruin the essence by encouraging unpleasant news reports.

Alright guys, its lunch time, I am gonna have a good meal and probably catch up with some sleep.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Watch Mumbai meri jaan coz theres a character similar to Bharka in it n things that change her life... PS - nice post after a long time.. I recommend such deviations from ones reality to cope up with the ever so changing mind.... :)

nishant said...

hmmmm I remember....its an nice movie...

Soumya said...

Amazing post... Have never had any respect for this woman.. I don't think you were here when the Mumbai blasts happened last year.. Maybe you can find you-tube clippings of the kind of irresponsible journalism we had, especially from 'reputed' news channels such as NDTV, CNN-ibn and Star - they seemed to be helping the terrorists to communicate with their bosses rather than report the plain facts to people. Have you read Gurumurthy or Francois Gautier? Try www.gurumurthy.net ..apologies if I have told u this before..

viswajith.k.n said...

thalae...lovely post and one of your best. I do not know if you had checked on 26/11 live news last year. But here is how insensitive Barkha Dutt was - She kept asking a young 5-8 year old kid whose parents were inside Taj when disaster struck, on how the young kid is feeling with his mom and dad fighting for survival inside! To be honest I lost respect for her that moment though I never had an opinion about her journalism. She might be one of the best in the business but the day she asked such a stupid and insensitive question I felt as if - "God if I were the kid, I would have throttled her around the neck right then and there and choked her to death!"

nishant said...

i followed the entire incident, i was not interested in the details then...today i feel responsible....

Nono said...

Nice one dude...Be it politicians or media journalists, the idea behind their survival is one. Both thrive on sensationalization and love floating on top of issues rather than getting into it. So it is not surprising at all.

keep the writing going!!

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