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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Breaking Rules to Give Breaking News

 Let us try to recall the time when there used to be no word such as news channels, When Print Media was the major source of information all around the world, When Newspaper ruled, When Aaj Tak was just a half an hour news program broadcasted on Doordarshan. Those were the days when 1-2 hour a day of news broadcasting was enough.
When we compare those days with present we see a lot of change. A whole new world of news channels driven by new technology. Another change we see is the entrance of many private 24 hour news channels. One feel excited about updated news served at home 24 hour a day. It takes matter of minutes to serve us with the recent happenings. Videos and animations even make things easier to understand. We get regular weather forecast around the world. LOKSABHA TV RAJYASABHA TV empower you to watch the proceedings of our leaders live. Also the 9 p.m. news shows like News Hour, Face the Nation and Big fight enables us to develop an opinion.

But one thing we must  not forget is that with the emergence of lots of Private News channels, the rivalry of  news broadcasting has increased( which is a good sign) but also what has increased is the competition for better TRP. TRP runs the news channel. More TRP means more advertisements which leads to more funds and more profit i.e. more money with the news broadcaster. More Money corresponds to Big Business, and yes News Broadcasting is a business today which is seriously driven by the amount of money involved. It is the same reason why we see breaking news like YE DEKHIYE UDTA HUA AADMI, HIL JAAEGI DHARTI, BHAGWAN K LIYE TV DEKHIYE,KABOOTRO PAR GRENADE KA KEHER, or Programs like SAAS BAHU AUR SAJISH. News channels shows us what we want us to see, which will hike their TRPs and profits ultimately. No doubt portraying more of the social, political and economic problems we face in day-to-day life and making aware the people of india of these problems in a decent way would be a much better option but this might not bring high TRPs( they show us what we want to see ). Once this TRPs became so important that various news channels broadcasted the 2008 Mumbai Attacks and the measures been taken my indian defense forces at that time which gave live coverage to the terrorists who were watching the activities of NSG commandos .

Channels keep repeating a news item again and again to highlight or create suspense, while you keep waiting for the details or for other news. It gets frustrating! If you are waiting for any particular news, say, the business or sports news, you will have t watch many dragging, useless news (including commercials) in between.Also we see authenticity of the news channel being compromised. The biggest case we just noticed was Zee News asking for 100 Crores to hide Jindal Steel scam.In another case we saw suppressing of ADANI group scam by media and boycott of Social Activist and recently turned politician Arvind Kejrival just before gujrat elections. This definitely questions the truthfulness and authenticity of news we see.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. News channels are no different. Many private News Channels are useful to give us news in the least time possible but no doubt they are driven by TRP. But on other hand we can't make the media completely under government control. It is an issue with no proper solution but in the end I would like to leave by quoting " News Channel Show us what we want to see "

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

We Welcome the NATIONAL AWAKENING


It is really sad that girls are not secure in a country where people worship goddesses.It hurts when a victim go to the cops to register a complaint of sexual assault but instead of investigating they advice them to dress properly and don't hang out with guys.The way cops treat us tells us the complete story. Almost half of the rape cases in 2011 are pending investigation. When we talk about our justice system, we notice that number of judges are well
short. Today 5 times the current number of judges are required. May be this is a big reason for years one has to wait for justice. It hurts when KHAP PANCHAYATS impose peny fines to the culprits of rape. It hurts when politicians make use of such sad incidents to maintain their vote bank. It hurts when
people whom we trust play the blamegame. It hurts when peaceful candles face lathis.
Some people might call our nation impotent, feel not proud of being an indian and feel pessimistic about this nation's future. But I believe a revolution has
already begun.
In the past two years, we have seen something extra-ordinary. Huge masses protesting in public against several issues was not so common earlier.Huge Candle marches were seen only in bollywood movies. Today we see bollywood films coming true. Earlier we saw 1 old man who brought the whole country together in a fight against corruption. And today we saw people coming together to fight for the empowerment of women. Today a part of everyone died with death of a girl.
May be it is right to hide the identity of the victim girl because that girl represents the pain of all the women in india's patriarchic society. Government's decision of shutting down 10 metro stations today shows the amount of anger in today's youth. Several Governments passed several bills for the empowerment of women but I believe this protest will make more impact than any of those bills as it includes the masses. The masses just showed that we will not stop no matter how many lathis u bring.You keep beating, we won't lay a finger on u but the voice raised can't be dimmed now. We won't stop until u answer our questions. Why did it took only 3 days to pass a bill to raise the salaries of MPs? Why do you just cry in the parliament and say move on when you face such issues. We elected you to make reforms not to show us another daily soap opera. Perhaps they think that it is just another rape and it will lose focus in few days but they are wrong;this fire will not extinguish easily. It is not just any other rape,it is the ground reality of indian women. We want leaders who can do much more than crying.Enough of this platitude We want police reforms which actually make a difference. It is time we awaken the nation that cops and politicians are our servants. They don't own us,we own them. No political party can be stronger than the voter.
WE WELCOME THE NATIONAL AWAKENING!!!!

INDIA : A PSEUDO MONARCHY


PS : I WROTE THIS NOTE IN MY VACATIONS WHEN I HAD NOTHING TO DO, SO IT IS JUST A TIMEPASS ACT.

In ancient India, the prevalent system of Government was Absolute Monarchy. Ancient India was administered and ruled  by kings and thus the system was monarchical. It started at the times when there was no india: the times of RAMAYAN n MAHBHARAT. We had the Mughals , the lodis , the mauryas , the nawabs and many more like we read in our history books. Then there were some white chicks with entrance of Victoria and Elizabeth. Then finally 1947 ended Monarchy in India and we were certified DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY. But Is the certification enough to prove us democratic. I mean I will be a certified Computer Engineer in some days and Hello......I get in trouble with C language syntax sometimes. I won't be called a real engineer if i dont practise Engineering. Do our country Practise DEMOCRACY?...Let us See

MONARCHY IN POLITICS : Government is chosen by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE but problem is names of government people( particulary their surname)  are same since independence.What is interesting that every MP in the Lok Sabha or the lower house of the Indian parliament under the age of 30 had inherited a seat.It's like I have Nothing to do so I will join my DAD's Business. After NEHRU>>INDIRA>>RAJIV>>SONIA and now they want RAHUL. AKHILESH YADAV gets the throne of UP. SUKHBIR BADAL is waiting for it desperately being Deputy CM for years. So as AJAY CHAUTALA. Truth is that all over INDIA we are ruled by some political families, say it be YADAV OF UP or YADAV of BIHAR, KARUNANIDHI or REDDY, CHAUTALA or BADAL, THACKEREY or ABDULLAH.
WOW!!!! I wonder Do these Family give birth to GODS. I mean are they the most qualified personalities all over INDIA??? Now coming back to GANDHIs(I don't know why they are called gandhi....why feroz khan suddenly became feroz gandhi just before marrying indira. May be to bring a touch of FATHER OF NATION in the name). They want RAHUL to be the next PM . Let us check out the list of reasons: He is young and the list ends here,,,As if there are only 2 youngsters in india: 1 is AAYUSHMAN( who is busy donating sperms )  and the other has to take a big responsibility of being PM of country. They also say he visits villages of UP regularly. Do all the villages are in UP only?....Oh i forgot CONGRESS always lose elections in UP. How many visits has he made to their villages after recent lost in UP?


:Lets diverge from Politics to other areas. Here we come BOLLYWOOD. Who is that WHAT an IDEA SIRJI GUY??? That SIRJI has given us lot of Flop movies and still he gets opportunities. But the Good thing is he doesn't get SOLO/LEAD roles these days so that movies like DHOOM/2 and DOSTANA can make some money. Another Good thing is that the DUMB guy is seen just once in 2 years in GOLMAL series.Also we have the DUTTs, The DEOLs, The KHANs . The ROCKSTAR is doing well but how many other non star sons but talented people get a lead role in their first movie. I hope we get to see selfmade actors like SRK n AB senior in future. I bet we will, watching IRFAN KHAN n BOMAN IRANI

I hope many of us might agree with me but is it enough? I mean If they are PMs, CMs,MPs or a CELEBRITY,,, its because of us. We made them what they are today. It might hurt us but Indian People are also responsible for all this shit happening.There are both good and bad in the society but we choose to be good... right? Lets make these decisions like we make decisions related to our personal life. Lets make our country democratic indeed  but I know we are too busy in our lives. Just like I wrote this note when I had nothing really to do. But still an INDIAN VOICE inside me says that INDIA WILL CHANGE!!!!   :)THANX for wasting your time on this--ANKUSH ARYA ;)