I am having really crazy days with 8 hours of training sessions daily, to make myself more Google friendly. The news of the training session actually came out of the blue that I had absolutely no idea about what I could be ‘taught’. But thankfully it’s all about what I am familiar with, but in a little more explanatory way. The ‘marathon’ training session brought along with it many good things along with an ‘ice cold’ change for me, as now I am made to sit in a place that I can literally name ‘Antarctica’ or ‘refrigerator’. The people around me are so much in love with the centralized AC here that they will literally burst into tears if at all I switch off the AC. The temperature is so low that my hands and feet become ice cold soon. I, someone who is glued with sinusitis by birth, am a total misfit here now and carry home headache and dizziness every day, finishing off the tablets that I have stored.
My new habitat is mostly filled with guys who are ever set to make this place a ‘refrigerator’ Really freezing, like thousands of pins pricking my body and brain at a time. Killing headaches start in no time, with excruciating pain making me exhausted and angry. I always look at the ‘AC lovers’ here with surprise and wonder how they manage to concentrate and work in such chilliness.
Every time they start freezing our room, I will have to drag myself from my seat, go and switch off the AC. But of really no use! Seeing me switch it off someone will soon jump from his seat running towards the control switch of the AC to switch it on again. Poor me! All I can do is just show him a sad face, a last (hopeless) attempt to make him know about the brutality that he is going to do. But I am always failing miserably to convince the ‘chill lovers’.
Scandal obsessed Media
Why don’t media and people get bored talking about the personal life of our celebrities? I really pity them for such mean discussions of no use! I think India has some good number of other relevant issues which are to be discussed, and not just bawdy gossips. But unfortunately Indian press; not just Indian but the world media never leaves such masalas behind.
I happened to see a leading online news website yesterday going gaga over a photograph in which an Indian cricketer’s wife is seen with a cigarette in her hand. A sensational piece of sale boosting stuff, they were really celebrating it, and were literally playing the role of morality preachers. I really don’t understand why media is so bothered about the personal life of someone when there are a lot more relevant issues in India to be discussed and sorted out. I don’t mean to justify the photograph or the person in it. No comments on that. But is that news really relevant? Should such news reports be published? I would say a big “NO”. If she wants to party she can, if it doesn't turn-out to be a public nuisance. Smoke or booze, it’s her life and media need not bother.
To be frank, celebrity news has now started rising above even the important world events. Media culture, both visual and print, has become really rotten! Many of us dismiss such gossips as harmless fun, but we should not forget that we are forced to consume those trashes thereby turning ourselves away from stuffs worth reading. Our media’s dangerous obsession with the personal life of celebrities always reminds me how boring and smutty the much celebrated news papers and the so called celebrated reports of veteran journalists have now become.
Almost the same hullabaloo was seen a few months back when an MP got married to a business woman. Our media tried really hard to dig out his two failed marriages and even conducted forms and discussions to analyze the failure. So obsessed with celebrity scandals! What if he marries twice or thrice? It is his life. Healthy criticisms related to his works as an MP can be appreciated and not derogatory remarks about someone’s personal life. The way the media ridiculed him was really gross. A man in his 50s wished for a good partner, what’s wrong in it? Why scorn him and his wish? Dear friends from the media, I think you have better topics to write about. Try and find them out!
I happened to see a leading online news website yesterday going gaga over a photograph in which an Indian cricketer’s wife is seen with a cigarette in her hand. A sensational piece of sale boosting stuff, they were really celebrating it, and were literally playing the role of morality preachers. I really don’t understand why media is so bothered about the personal life of someone when there are a lot more relevant issues in India to be discussed and sorted out. I don’t mean to justify the photograph or the person in it. No comments on that. But is that news really relevant? Should such news reports be published? I would say a big “NO”. If she wants to party she can, if it doesn't turn-out to be a public nuisance. Smoke or booze, it’s her life and media need not bother.
To be frank, celebrity news has now started rising above even the important world events. Media culture, both visual and print, has become really rotten! Many of us dismiss such gossips as harmless fun, but we should not forget that we are forced to consume those trashes thereby turning ourselves away from stuffs worth reading. Our media’s dangerous obsession with the personal life of celebrities always reminds me how boring and smutty the much celebrated news papers and the so called celebrated reports of veteran journalists have now become.
Almost the same hullabaloo was seen a few months back when an MP got married to a business woman. Our media tried really hard to dig out his two failed marriages and even conducted forms and discussions to analyze the failure. So obsessed with celebrity scandals! What if he marries twice or thrice? It is his life. Healthy criticisms related to his works as an MP can be appreciated and not derogatory remarks about someone’s personal life. The way the media ridiculed him was really gross. A man in his 50s wished for a good partner, what’s wrong in it? Why scorn him and his wish? Dear friends from the media, I think you have better topics to write about. Try and find them out!
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