Its been two months with no post...aiyeiiioooo!

Two months with no post in the blogger...thats bad. I shouldn't be saying i was occupied when i've got internet at my home and laptop to work on. Lets see whom can i critisize this time. hmmm..who better than the media..ha ha
The indian team recently won the Commonwealth Bank tri -series with a convincing victory of 2 games over none in the best of 3 clashes. The indian team is close to acquiring the status of a formidable team, a real FORMIDABLE TEAM. With times gone by when cricket fanatics would pull their hair over disturbing thoughts of the directions in which the indian cricket would be heading when the seniors were more in the team and the alegations that the seniors are not letting any 'junees' to come inside. With 'T-20' win and the latest one in the kitty, the cricket crazy dudes can stop pulling their hair and if they have lost some in the process, can look up to some hair growing lotions. With the good combination of seniors and juniors, the learning and the execution of processes is just going to be better and good for indian cricket, not to forget the amount of money spent by corporates and movies stars on the glizty, glamorous Indian Premier League (IPL) [ which is an answer to Zee TV's Indian Ccricket League (ICL) initiative]. Nonetheless, its just another business where large investors and FII's pump money and make more and pull out their stocks when they want it to!

Well, i'm deviating again. I was talking of the media. Listen about this. I had just returned home from office on tuesday, the day of the 2nd match of the 3 matches, which india won. Something struck my dull but awake mind to watch the famous of all channels, AAJ TAK (sabse tez) and the 'coming up' bar showed 'maa tujhe salaam' [Mother, I salute you]. I, for some reason, thought something on cricket should be up and coming soon, instead, i couldn't figure out how the title of the forthcoming show could link itself to the above mentioned subject that arose in my mind. Its only when the program began (after switching few channels here and there, i came back to AAJ TAK ), i see the mothers of all the cricketers (of all the young players of the team) sit in front of the camera to answer few questions which these journalists put up. The prologue to the show began with the cricketers running and hugging after the triumphant win. Interestingly, i happened to hear a pronoun from the mouth of one of the journalists when it was the turn to talk about Harbhajan Singh, the off spin bowler in the indian team, who is fondly called 'Bhajji'. The pronoun being' hamara' bhajji, meaning 'our' bhajji. I found it hideously strange. It were the same people who were criticising a hell lot (perhaps until the fire is intensified, till the satisfaction that the fire has actually intensified) of about the team whenever they lost the match and interestingly, there were no pronouns used, ***k the pronouns, its these bunch of retards acting like they know good amount of cricket and license to question the ability of the person and bringing forth solutions which you can only laugh at and throw it back at them. Yes, i do agree that in one of the games india did play badly (when they were all out for 153 against the aussie total of 202) but its only a game man. its not the end of all and now that they have won the series, everyone wants to have a piece of the pie, with these media run by hypocritic people, of the exclusive interviews and one hour, maybe longer, shows with the concluding segments having the clips of the winning moment and song from hindi movies in the background. I remember, the song, ' hum sikander hain' for the U-19 team, who won the U-19 world cup, by beating the south african team at kuala lumpur.

Its funny how people react and if you are a keen observer, like me (ha...at least in these issues if not the others), you can't help stop laughing at the shear immaturity shown by the some 'growing' journalists..

i need to sleep. have some work tmrw.

good night,

Good Journalism! what is it?

I was watching the 'Ramnath Goenka memorial debate' on sunday and the topic for the debate was 'Is Good journalism bad business'? The panel consisted of distinguished editors of leading newspapers in India namely The Hindu, The Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times. Further The debate hosts were Rajdeep Sardesai(CNN-IBN) and Barkha Dutt(NDTV 24X7). The audience consisted of politicians, writers, news anchors. U can watch the entire episode here:
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videos.aspx?id=15435&slug=Is+good+journalism+bad+business%3f

This topic has long been my wish to be discussed publicly and finally it has been put through. On a larger scale my question still remains as to what is the role of media in shaping the society. The society craves for information and why not its the age of 'Information' Technology!!! But does it comes at a cost and if yes at what? Does media,the context particular to the indian media, has to be glittery and glamorous as the Bollywood which looks like has lost the definition of movies and entirely rely on stupid and bizarre formulae to woo the general public. One of the questions rightly raised was 'Should TRP be a factor to decide whether a news channel is a favourite among the mass'. Lets face this, we are still a growing nation where thoughts and views change and its quite an arduous task to maintain a happy-everybody scenario. Now, shekhar gupta of the indian express said "you don't have to write for your mother because your mother will anyway like what you write instead try writing for your landlord". This is where you start writing for others and why not 'they' form the public and hence the market which decides the survival but is masala REALLY needed for a news considering the fact that we indians like Masala's anyway(you just can't eat pav bhaji with no masala in bhaji). A news media, be it print or TV, is meant to decipher information to the public and make them understand(if needed) the impact of it in their lives and the nation as a whole. Alright, you can cover the ash-abhi wedding or bipasha's kissing with christiano but does these supersede the other news related to the country? and moreover does it require a whole day broadcasting? Dont they find anything else. I used to watch CNN (i dont have that channel now here) and let me put it straight it far exceeds the quality in news and presentations with right amount. Well, people might argue thats its boring and as Mr.Ram of 'The Hindu' said "its an open world". No wonder why 'The Times of India' has become a good 'masala' newspaper. Its got everything one needs. National news, international (though more towards glam side), sport and exclusive supplement for page 3 lovers. Nonetheless, 'The Times of India' still remains my most hated newspaper but have to compromise when there is no other. The arguement can go on with each side putting across points in their favour but largely it remains that journalism is nascent and has a long way to go. The Honorable President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Kalam asked rightly the question 'Can Indian media be a part of Nation's development process'?