Its raining crap

Couldn't believe that the media is devoting so much column centimeters and airtime to comment on Sanjay Dutt's Bombay blast trial verdicts. I don’t want to spend time again to speak about it. But was that worth a 'national importance' certificate? Or was it the media's fetish with celebrity reporting? Another burning national issue is the performance of the Indian Cricket team and Sourav Ganguly’s come back. Obscene amount of columns are dedicated to it. The only sports news that the news channels think worthy of reporting are views of retired/thrown out cricketers on how to improve the present state of affairs. Without realizing of course that if they had practiced what they preach now, probably things would have been better…if not now, atleast then! We Indian’s are terrible sportsmen. I think history would prove it. There might be glimpses of triumphs, but altogether we are mediocre, if not below-average in sports. Our national interest in cricket is virtu...

By the second post, I fear I am donning the mantle of a media basher – ‘media watchdog’ as some would put. Recently the Indian news channels and newspapers were bursting with reports of Brangelina’s “arrogant” security guards swearing at a motley crowd as “bloody Indians” at their shoot-location of “A Mighty heart”. Now were the crowd at “Anjuman-i-Islam school” (the shoot location) unruly? Yes. I would think so from my experience of have attended numerous functions and been witness to numerous occassions when a celebrity / s has made an appearance. Leave alone the crowd, the media – especially the press photographers and the camera-men sometimes exhibit the most uncouth behaviour in their enthusiasm to get the best angles and expressions. If some one behaves in an unacceptable manner, then you have a reason to get upset. How one shows this is very unpredictable. I wonder how anyone would think of a politically correct ‘expletive’ in such situations. That the Brangelina ...

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