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 ...
Year round, month round, week round, day round and the second starting now, it is crap all around. Dimensions of this element vary on how much you can see it. From attitudes to beliefs, characters to symbols, everything is being done for something else - often it is not said, and more than often, it is a subterfuge.To unravel the mysteries of this element, as I see it, is the intention of this pastime activity. For an extremely cynical ad executive, the blog world has called out. Crapediem!