MUMBAI - Down & Out

The television channels are still rambling with the Mumbai news. Fighting with each other for TRP ratings.
In Chennai there is DJ festival going on. Tickets are in demand. Ian Anderson will be jamming with Anoushka Shankar in Palace Grounds, Bangalore. There was a blast in Assam. A body was found in a suitcase in Mumbai. L&T stocks can see a further dip – that’s what an analyst in NDTV Profit declares. My son is watching a music channel.
That's India - my friend. Too big for anyone's imagination and the people - equally diverse in their thinking & behavior.
The news channel says that people are venting anger on politicians. Good, its their democratic right, but who represents the common man in television channel – socialites?
Yesterday Barkha Dutt of NDTV ensembled a bunch of socialites. Simi Gerwal, Prasoon Joshi, Luke Kenny (my God, this guy needs a Hindi translator), Ness Wadia etc. The zoo was full house. Simi Gerwal was looking as young as ever - maybe she had spent atleast 2-3 hours in her dressing room before coming to the show.

Everyone said,"Enough is Enough". "The politicians cannot be tolerated anymore".
So what do we do? Throw out the politicians and have anarchy.
Have a land where people make their own rules, take justice upon them - go a few million years back and pay tribute to our ancestors.

I have not seen a single discussion where anything concrete came out. It cannot. You cannot make a judgment out of haste. Idea of bombing Pakistan is as wild as a poet’s imagination. For God’s sake, there are some protocols. If we do what America did in Iraq, then how can we blame U.S. in the same breadth?
The times are disturbing. Yes, emotions will run high, people will give vent to their pent up feelings. But does that mean we resort to anarchy, like the television channels are provoking.
India is a democracy and we are proud of that. But the channels are making us feel that we cannot trust the processes any more. Constitution was only a bestseller 50 years back and now reduced to a mere paper weight.

We can translate our anger into action, in four months time, in the next general elections. But during that period Simi Gerwal will be in London, Ness Wadia will be busy in deal making, Luke Kenny will be busy making a jingle for Channel V - no one will have the time to vote and choose a right representative.
Mahesh Bhatt - lets not even waste a letter on this guy.
Lastly, English media knows they are a bunch of hypocrites. They know they reach to 5% of the population but behave in a way that they will change the face of the society.
Please Socialites, there is life beyond the glamour of metros, we have something called villages, where more than 70% of the population leaves.
Don’t even dare going there, lest you damage your Dolce & Gabbaña.

Those who lost their near & dear ones will still be grieving in the darkness, while the television channels will be busy fighting for TRPs.

India - R.I.P.