Saturday, February 21, 2009

TV news???

Can you find the acronym TV news for me???

Over the period of last three months I have not viewed much of Indian TV news. But whatever I have seen I can derive one Taleban Views News.


All our reporters know more about Taleban than our intelligence agencies. I even suspect Taleban knows less about themselves than our own Deepak Chaurasia, Sumit Awasthi, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghosh, how can I forget Barkha Dutt…I owe one post in the honour of our own the one and only Lioness of Kargil, Gujrat, Gulf...Barkha.

If anyone can offer something better and authentic for this abbreviation TV news I will be grateful. Like Tootay Views (broken views) News, Tadkeywale Vichar (spiced up views) News…Punchline for news channel will be tooti khabrein bikharte reporters (broken news scattered reporters) - ODTV.

Feel free to let your imagination fly...waise bhi ham feel hi to jada free kartein hai…In any case we feel excessively free. Don't you trust me??? Look at our roads all the streaks on walls and puddles at footpaths will tell you the tales of our freedom.

I think I am lost in the freedom of expression… ;)

Friday, February 20, 2009

Delhi 6 - It's easy to HATE...difficult to LOVE???"

Delhi 6 is pin code, you no longer use, of Chandni Chowk, old Delhi.

Film critics (big intelligent people) say it’s not bad I say it’s good.

Characters not to be ignored: Gobar, Jalebi, Fakir with a mirror, Hanuman devotee Muslim shopkeeper, and of course Mashakali (pigeon)…Kala Bandar (Hate)

The movie is full of metaphors and brilliant narrative of internal turmoil of characters. As a people we are not free. And to get freedom what all is at stake, family, culture, values, society, religion and our eternal propensity to hate (KALA BANDAR (monkey) in the movie).

Lessons: The character Gobar (mean: duffer) was a common household help but with uncommon intelligence. Ordinary people (Jalebi and Gobar) possess extraordinary understanding of issues. Their questions are better (any time) than so-called well educated / elite and especially better than our politicians who get money to ask questions in the parliament.

Question: why it’s so easy to hate, find difference and disagree and so difficult to LOVE unconditionally?