The most common thing in India along with 70 year old politicians is BREAKING NEWS. I got up one morning to read "BREAKING NEWS: AKHIL KUMAR JAIL VIBHAG SE PARESHAN". "BREAKING NEWS: 3 MAHINO SE TANKHWAAN NAHI MILI" "BREAKING NEWS: BLAH BLAH BLAH".
The first time I ever saw BREAKING NEWS on a Hindi news channel was when there was a bomb blast at Ghatkopar in 2001. It was really a biggggggg news as one would call it and it deserved to be categorized as BREAKING NEWS. After that tough I agree that the number of blasts taking place have increased but the number of BREAKING NEWS seem to have risen in multiples of 1000. News channels these days just want a small news to call it BN (I'm bored of BREAKING NEWS). Infact, there is an Hindi news channel INDIA TV which has a complete time slot dedicated to BN. They call the show BN. How stupid of them and even more stupid of people like us who see it. Khali came to India and his drinking water was something that the media highlighted as BN. What would you do if you meet your mentor after 1 year or your parents. You would surely bow down to take their blessings. News channels took it as an opportunity to have one more news as BN: 'Mahabali Khali ne jhooke. Maa ka aashirwaad liya.' The list of such stupid news is endless. You can't even call it BN. It is nothing but SHITTY NEWS.
News channels feel that the audience likes it. Do we? I don't think so. No sane person can watch such news. There are a few exceptions like TIMES NOW to these channels but then 90% of the news channels concentrate on news which are totally unworthy of the publicity that they get. There is only one word for these news channels - cheap. The news channels have become more of gossip channels rather than anything else. There was going to be a solar eclipse and after the eclipse there was BN: " SURYA GRAHAN HUA. SHANI KA PRAVAH". Nothing but nonsense. You get up in the morning and are trying to catch up on what happened yesterday but the only thing that you get to see is a fat woman with curly hair talking some crap about astrology. This is what news channels focus on when they could have 100 other things to talk about. If it rains for a hour continuously in Mumbai, you get another BN" Mumbai mai barish, Sab jagah pani". By 'sab jagah' they intend the regular areas where there is water logging. The has been water logging at Milan subway since years every monsoon even if it rains for 30 mins continuously. That doesnt cross the editors mind when he wants some feed as BN.
There needs to be a change. There needs to be an independent body out there to penalize news channels in case they provide people with such kind of false (or low quality) news. We need to have a 'News Ethics and Code of Conduct'. A 24 hours news channel should not become a 24 hour entertainment channel (sometimes they are worse than saas-bahu serials) . News channels on their part should change. That would certainly be a BREAKING NEWS for us.
Aug 21, 2008
Aug 16, 2008
NEW BLOGGER JOINS IN
Welcome Sneha aka Sreyashi!!!!
You can see two of her posts below this post. Certainly one of the best on this blog.
Keep writing. People enjoy it. (Got personal feedback from some friends :P)
~Harshad
You can see two of her posts below this post. Certainly one of the best on this blog.
Keep writing. People enjoy it. (Got personal feedback from some friends :P)
~Harshad
Aug 15, 2008
the day u slipped away
leaving me with disbelief,
the world was turned upside down
for u, it must have been a huge relief!!
the day u left my hand
nothing had been so piercing,
i was dumbstruck for hours
the pain had been so excruciating!!
tears swelled up in my eyes
as my heart knew u left me,
it completely blurred my vision
i could then hardly able to see.
i withdrew myself from others
friends had turned into foes,
i kept regretting day by day
oh! how could i let u go??
the feeling of emptiness
being aloof from the world,
who would i share my feelings with?
upon me, all miseries were hurled.
am bound by the days u left behind
the world deserted, am alone
looking nowhere a vacant mind
with no more storm no cyclone!!
leaving me with disbelief,
the world was turned upside down
for u, it must have been a huge relief!!
the day u left my hand
nothing had been so piercing,
i was dumbstruck for hours
the pain had been so excruciating!!
tears swelled up in my eyes
as my heart knew u left me,
it completely blurred my vision
i could then hardly able to see.
i withdrew myself from others
friends had turned into foes,
i kept regretting day by day
oh! how could i let u go??
the feeling of emptiness
being aloof from the world,
who would i share my feelings with?
upon me, all miseries were hurled.
am bound by the days u left behind
the world deserted, am alone
looking nowhere a vacant mind
with no more storm no cyclone!!
You are walking slowly on a black road glistening with rain. At regular intervals yellow light from the tall streetlamps falls on the road making it shine. A light drizzle touches your skin...amorously. The earphone plugged to your ears is belting out..."So Yesterday-m just a bird thats already flown away'".
Suddenly you want to turn your face upwards and close your eyes and let the rain kiss your face gently. Suddenly you want to outstretch your arms and lose yourself. Suddenly you want to mingle your tears with the drops of rain running down you face.Suddenly you want to erase the past and look forward to a new beginning. Suddenly you feel your dignity and self respect bloom like an immortal flower. Suddenly it feels like love---Madly in love with ur own self.
Suddenly you want to turn your face upwards and close your eyes and let the rain kiss your face gently. Suddenly you want to outstretch your arms and lose yourself. Suddenly you want to mingle your tears with the drops of rain running down you face.Suddenly you want to erase the past and look forward to a new beginning. Suddenly you feel your dignity and self respect bloom like an immortal flower. Suddenly it feels like love---Madly in love with ur own self.
Jul 27, 2008
SE- DAY 1
I woke. My mind tells me to check the clock. Its 6.55. I have an alarm at 7.00. Lets sleep till 7 . I try and when I think its 7.00, its only 6.56. Totally bored to sleep, I wake up. Its 21st July, 2008. Thoughts start creeping in. Its first day of SE. SE dammit SE. I am a senior now. I won't have common syllabus . We might have a better lot of professors - Yippeeeeee. I won't have the same classroom - :(. "TRRRRRRIIIINNNNNNNNNNG" - 7'o clock alarm. Press Quit. Why does the alarm have to ring when something that makes you sad crosses your mind?
Fast forward directly to SPCE-SPIT Quadrangle. 8.45 am.
I can see Rishkul sitting. Kaushik is also here along with Shrey and Shreyansh. And there is Mark. I wave to everyone. Shake hands with everyone. All SE's now. I ask Rishkul - " Room kaunsa hai?" Room 304. 3rd floor - shit,climb 3 floors daily. Booooorrrriiinnng. First is the Maths lecture by some professor names Gajabiye. True to SP traditions of nothing starting on time, so did our SE class. Lecture canceled. We head to the Gymkhana. All of FE, not a single day was spent at the Gymkhana. Here we were spending our 1st lecture in the Gymkhana. All was fun till we got a call from one of our classmates saying the next lecture had begun. We head towards the classroom with anxiety as to how the new professor will be. Before I could have entered the room, she had already started her subject :(. Me, Kaushik and Suresh sat on the same bench which was made for only two of us. Last bench it was, so everything justified. Lecture over. Next professor in - Prof. Bhagat. A very very cool professor whose teaching is better than any professor I have come across in SP till now. He took class for 1.15 hrs of his 2 hours and left us to one horrible professor whom I wouldn't like to name. He was trying to exceed the 30 minute slot that we managed to fit in for him. That was it. The 30 minute lecture almost felt like a 3-4 hours lecture and he wanted to exceed it. We asked him to stop with shouts of "Sirrrrrrrrr....Sirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr". He said something and left the class but who cared. He left and that was the end of day 1 at college.
I don't remember my journey back home and what happened after that. But college was a bit boring that day. There was excitement of meeting all friends after a long time but that was the 1st one hour. Once back to normal, the first day was boring. Nothing changed about the lectures. the same boring ones. No change whatsoever. Neither our attitude changed nor the professors. Neither we cared what the thought us, nor they cared what we understood. We had our lunch the same way that we used to have in FE - eating more from others boxes than your own. Everything was actually the same - except for change in our year: FE to SE. What was the biggg fuss about first day of SE when nothing had changed.
Ohh! I forgot. Room 304 from Room 8!
Fast forward directly to SPCE-SPIT Quadrangle. 8.45 am.
I can see Rishkul sitting. Kaushik is also here along with Shrey and Shreyansh. And there is Mark. I wave to everyone. Shake hands with everyone. All SE's now. I ask Rishkul - " Room kaunsa hai?" Room 304. 3rd floor - shit,climb 3 floors daily. Booooorrrriiinnng. First is the Maths lecture by some professor names Gajabiye. True to SP traditions of nothing starting on time, so did our SE class. Lecture canceled. We head to the Gymkhana. All of FE, not a single day was spent at the Gymkhana. Here we were spending our 1st lecture in the Gymkhana. All was fun till we got a call from one of our classmates saying the next lecture had begun. We head towards the classroom with anxiety as to how the new professor will be. Before I could have entered the room, she had already started her subject :(. Me, Kaushik and Suresh sat on the same bench which was made for only two of us. Last bench it was, so everything justified. Lecture over. Next professor in - Prof. Bhagat. A very very cool professor whose teaching is better than any professor I have come across in SP till now. He took class for 1.15 hrs of his 2 hours and left us to one horrible professor whom I wouldn't like to name. He was trying to exceed the 30 minute slot that we managed to fit in for him. That was it. The 30 minute lecture almost felt like a 3-4 hours lecture and he wanted to exceed it. We asked him to stop with shouts of "Sirrrrrrrrr....Sirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr". He said something and left the class but who cared. He left and that was the end of day 1 at college.
I don't remember my journey back home and what happened after that. But college was a bit boring that day. There was excitement of meeting all friends after a long time but that was the 1st one hour. Once back to normal, the first day was boring. Nothing changed about the lectures. the same boring ones. No change whatsoever. Neither our attitude changed nor the professors. Neither we cared what the thought us, nor they cared what we understood. We had our lunch the same way that we used to have in FE - eating more from others boxes than your own. Everything was actually the same - except for change in our year: FE to SE. What was the biggg fuss about first day of SE when nothing had changed.
Ohh! I forgot. Room 304 from Room 8!
Jul 21, 2008
BEST OF COORG
Here is a collection of some photos from Coorg- the Scotland of India. It is the best place that I have ever been to. I managed to get some good snap shots of that place. Here are some of them.
This photo came out this way due to fog. Visibility must have been 10-20 meters at the most up there at TALACAUVERY - the place where CAUVERY starts. It is located at the border of Karnataka and Kerela. The place is almost always covered with dense fog or cloud - whatever it may be. I feel this as the best photo taken at Coorg. RGV could use this photo for his film as a horror image.
Took me two shots to get a clear photo of this caterpillar. Saw it one the way to a cliff at TALACAUVERY. Once I spotted it, I knew I needed to get a photo.
Thats how the HAUNTED TREE really looks like without the fog cover. Just for comparison.
A monkey at Nagarolai for you. Clicked at the right time to get his face at that particular angle. They just can't sit without motion. Something like humans. Have to be on the move.
Look at those commanding thorns. What grace these deers move with. Wonderful, just wonderful! Had to get my camera inside their territory (enclosure) to get a picture of these awesome creatures.
Frankly, I don't remember taking this photo at all. Just saw this when I was looking at and deciding which photos to upload. This photo was taken at the Tibetian monestry at Khousalnagar.
The Tibetian temple. Look at the idols. Awesome, just awesome. The Tibetian people have spent around 50 crores on this temple. From where do they get this money from - aid. And they cry they want more rights in India.
Doesn't it look like a typical hindi film bungalow. It isn't! Its my friend - Appachu's native house. I happened to take this photo and everyone was surprised how I got this angle. The house looks completely different from what it looks like normally. Not suggesting that my photo makes it look like a hindi film bunglow. The bunglow is great in its own way. The road leading to the bunglow and the trees besides the pathway make this photo look completely out of the box. I just loved the bunglow and this photo as well.
Hope you people like these pictures. There might be some stop to my posting photos. I won't be going out of town to click photos for at least the next 2 months. I'll post on current issues till then. Waiting for your comments. Need them desperately. Want to decide if I should post photos or not.
THE HAUNTED TREE
This photo came out this way due to fog. Visibility must have been 10-20 meters at the most up there at TALACAUVERY - the place where CAUVERY starts. It is located at the border of Karnataka and Kerela. The place is almost always covered with dense fog or cloud - whatever it may be. I feel this as the best photo taken at Coorg. RGV could use this photo for his film as a horror image.
Took me two shots to get a clear photo of this caterpillar. Saw it one the way to a cliff at TALACAUVERY. Once I spotted it, I knew I needed to get a photo.
Thats how the HAUNTED TREE really looks like without the fog cover. Just for comparison.
A monkey at Nagarolai for you. Clicked at the right time to get his face at that particular angle. They just can't sit without motion. Something like humans. Have to be on the move.
Look at those commanding thorns. What grace these deers move with. Wonderful, just wonderful! Had to get my camera inside their territory (enclosure) to get a picture of these awesome creatures.
Frankly, I don't remember taking this photo at all. Just saw this when I was looking at and deciding which photos to upload. This photo was taken at the Tibetian monestry at Khousalnagar.
The Tibetian temple. Look at the idols. Awesome, just awesome. The Tibetian people have spent around 50 crores on this temple. From where do they get this money from - aid. And they cry they want more rights in India.
Doesn't it look like a typical hindi film bungalow. It isn't! Its my friend - Appachu's native house. I happened to take this photo and everyone was surprised how I got this angle. The house looks completely different from what it looks like normally. Not suggesting that my photo makes it look like a hindi film bunglow. The bunglow is great in its own way. The road leading to the bunglow and the trees besides the pathway make this photo look completely out of the box. I just loved the bunglow and this photo as well.Hope you people like these pictures. There might be some stop to my posting photos. I won't be going out of town to click photos for at least the next 2 months. I'll post on current issues till then. Waiting for your comments. Need them desperately. Want to decide if I should post photos or not.
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