There is a joke in Malayalam which says if you go to the moon, there will be a few malayalis and a 'chayakada'. What made me reminded of this now? Well, its an incident that happened yesterday.
As most of you knows twenty20 world cup is going on and there was an India-Pakistan match y'day. There are many Pakistanis and few Indians here in my campus. So Pakistan student union decided to show the match live on a big screen. I also went there to watch the match which was shown in a big lecture hall. Most of the people there were Pakistanis and there were a few Indians as expected. I never though there will be a Malayali.
In between the match somebody goes to the door and says loudly: "Da.....M***...njan vilichal ninakku varan pattilla alle'. There was a loud reply from my back, obviously in Malayalam.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
Sanjay Datt and the media
I read an article in rediff by T. V. R. Shenoy about the court verdict in Sanjay Datt case. I completely agree with what he says-nobody is above the law and media is giving more hype to the news than what it deserves. I have a feeling that at least some of them are trying to make an empathy among people for Sanjay Datt. Of course I am not against him, but if he has done something wrong he has to face the consequences. What I have read is mostly from the net-home pages of many news papers/channels. I didn't watch any news channels as they are not available here :( But I can imagine how channels like NDTV would have treated the news.
There are lot more things to discuss-like the recent incidents in Andhra, the details about Indo-US nuclear deal, soaring prices of petrol etc. It is interesting that these are only an inner-page stories or 1-2 column stories in many of the papers. I will be more interested to read about issues like these, which I believe is more important to common people like me, than knowing what Sanjay Datt got for his breakfast in his first day in prison or if he will get a mosquito repellent or not. It is pathetic that the media's focus is not on the real issues of people. Of course media/press is not the only one to be blamed. After all they give what people want. I can imagine what people will be more interested in if they have news about both Indo-US nuclear deal and Sanjay's case in the same paper !! So who is to be blamed ?? Well, everybody has to think about it.
There are lot more things to discuss-like the recent incidents in Andhra, the details about Indo-US nuclear deal, soaring prices of petrol etc. It is interesting that these are only an inner-page stories or 1-2 column stories in many of the papers. I will be more interested to read about issues like these, which I believe is more important to common people like me, than knowing what Sanjay Datt got for his breakfast in his first day in prison or if he will get a mosquito repellent or not. It is pathetic that the media's focus is not on the real issues of people. Of course media/press is not the only one to be blamed. After all they give what people want. I can imagine what people will be more interested in if they have news about both Indo-US nuclear deal and Sanjay's case in the same paper !! So who is to be blamed ?? Well, everybody has to think about it.
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