NEWS....Media......is it worth the pain...

I always liked NEWS. Thought I tend to forget most of the stuff, I try to keep myself abreast with the latest news. Anything abt India is fun. From Nuke deals to firing of agni3, from cricket to hockey, from national to state news, from hollywood to bollyhood, i like to read abt them. And with google reader, i subscribe to more news feeds and tend to read the same news on different sites...

Of later, after i got a link for watching online news, the Indian news channels, my main source of entertainment other than my fav southpark and house is the news. Back in India, when I remember the sep 11th attacks. That day we had a blackout and almost the whole of south India was experiencing darkness. I was in my cousin's house, helping them out. Around 12-12:30 the electricity was restored back and the first news I heard from my dad is the attacks on US. I had then set a record for watching the news from around 12:30am to like 9am straight. I covered all the Indian language news to CNN and others. I just used to like to see the news....

Off late, I was watching the IBN CNN channel. Though i loved that channel, I somehow started to dislike the way they project the news. They talk as if they are the big brother and nail people before they can even talk. Its not only this news channel, but almost all these "new" news channels.

With due respects, i used to/still like Rajdeep Sardesai back from the days he was with NDTV. But off late, when ever he interviews any person, he basically smashes that person as if they are culprits. Be it cricket, politics or anything. When he interviews anyone, over phone, or worse in person, he questions them, grills them and never "listens" to that person. Not only him, but its the same with these news guyz who say have a video conference with his reporters, they abruptly stops the reporters from speaking. However, I still like Pranam Roy, thought of later i havent' been following him much. Its right, given the time for the news, you need to stop the reporters from going on and on... but every time? Then there is no use of the reporters being around there. They need to be given a chance to voice their opinions and have a say, not assume things. Say, cricket, or nidhari controversy, or the Devil's advocate's Karan Thapar screwing off his famous guest, there is always a sense of superiority bu these news guy z over all the people. I liked the way Ram Jethmalani talked..."you are no one to decide, its the judge and others that decide if a person is accused or not" just loved it!!!

I do understand that they have great concepts like Citizen reporters or exposing people aka Thelkha, but that doesn't give them the right over other people or to talk in layman terms, "Shout at them". Similarly, coming back to cricket, I still remember how they advertised as being the official fans for the world cup on behalf of India. I was like WHAT? FANS? what the heck ? how can a news channel be official fans? Even the people they bring to talk, either he doesn't know anything abt cricket or he would be a person who is non-Indian. They can always bring these people, for views not for their "harsh" comments.

Ask them to talk about any Entertainment news....things start to get interesting when they start siding one person....

Finally the flash news that I see.....the less i talk abt it the better....

Anyway... I still will continue to watch news... ;) despite all these...

Amala and Maneka agree to keep all the stray dogs in their houses....

I have always been afraid of animals. I try to keep my guard against them, specially after D's dog bit/scratched me. I am more like my dad, always avoid animals and exactly opposite to my mom or brother in that aspect. This was the reason i prefer car to bike or walking...

Today, while i was watching my daily quota of news, i heard abt a kid being mauled to death by stray dogs in Hyderabad. I don't know if things are the same, but when i was in India, our lane was flocked with dogs. I still remember the pain to wake up early in the morning for my dad whom i dropped near the auto stand so that he could go to airport. It was hardly 200 yards but still he asked me to drop him in the car. 5am was pretty early for most of us, but for dogs, its the time to bark and run behind the lonely vehicles. I remember my walk with AB where we went around the colony and there was this dog which kept following us. I still remember the day where i came back after a paper presentation and i was too adamant not to wake my parents up. So i could come up to the start of my lane. But i was skeptical to walk from there so i basically was searching for an auto to take me for 500 yards and was prepared to pay him a 100 bill.

I found this more amusing thing. My G'parents house is like 10 kms away which almost falls outside the city limits. When these MCH people come to pick up the dogs from the city and throw them "outskirts" . I still am unable to comprehend the logic? are all the people living within city limits? One more funny thing, Indian have become more intelligent. These MCH people, as i heard, take the money from the colony people and clear the dogs menace and after say a month put them back so that they can collect the dog and re-throw them back for money....

I am basically a guy who try not to really harm others, but stray dogs, i think its better to be without them. I do understand that the so called "Animal lovers" are against killing or immunizing them.
Two names come to my mind, Maneka Gandhi and Amala. With due respects, i would like to just ask them to walk in our lane rather than picking up the best animals and taking care of them more than their families. I still wonder how many stray dogs are being taken care of by these "animal lovers"..? Maybe some of MCH people should throw all the stray dogs into these animal lovers house so that they will know the pain and hardship each "normal" individual faces.

A simple question animal lovers, i understand animals are important, but at the cost of humans??? There is always a line for anything....

As my roomie A says, "I am animal lover, i only eat animals"....thought he made some sense...though he doesnt eat "stray" dogs....

Competation....

Its a wed morning, classed canceled due to snow...I have a tough homework to do...i am am passing my time reading some random stuff on net.

During my high school, i wasn't that elite bright student...but always used to work hard and try to compete with the best.

Under graduation suddenly became easy for me, maybe i was confident and loved to study the topics.....

Doing a masters completely changed my way of studying....I suddenly was on step one, trying to learn as much as i can, as changing the field really hit me, and hit me really hard....In a way, i was competing with fellow students, trying to understand the topics from the beginning....First sem was the toughest, second sem was equally tough, trying to learn from the first sem failures, but had extra responsibilities like getting an internship etc. In a way, struggling for them made me more relaxed, more calm on how things should be dealt and how i should try and learn to be organized, though i was never one......

Looking back, I felt that maybe competing with the best made me put that extra effort , put me in a league with the bigger guyz and the only way to come out is to fight or win..........Fighting is something i had always been doing....but never know when i will win....