Samachar

I was watching news sometime back when a breaking news flashed “Yet another murder of an innocent girl for dowry”. A boy used to love a girl and the girl too was in love with him. Their parents accepted their relationship. The got married but they didn’t live happily ever after. The boy killed his love for dowry. What the Fcuk? What kind of love it was? People who are frustrated with their life, who do not have guts to fight with life, who want money without working, who feel proud when they receive huge dowry and who fight with people (who care for them, who are harmless) are doomed. Their life is a complete failure.

Sometime back I watched an interview of an eminent bollywood personality, Mr. X, on ‘AAJ TAK’. The interview went on as following:

Interviewer: To, apko kya lagta ki Aishwarya Bacchan ko aage movies karni chahiye?
X: Apne is desh aisi aur bhi bahut mahatvapoorna ghatnaen ho rahi hain jiske bare main charcha ki ja sakti hai.
Interviewer: To ab ap humein batayenge ki humein kya dikhana chahiye.
X: Nahi mera matlab tha ki ab aisi baataon kya matlab hai am aadmi se.
Interviewer: Agar 5 % log bhi is karyakram main interest hai to hum dikhayenge.

It is really frustrating that the news channels which should try to bring a social change in our country are more interested in ‘Masala News’.

I switched off the television and picked up TOI for news update. It had been 4-5 days since I read the news paper so thought of updating myself for all these days and picked up all the news papers.

The picture on the front page of one of the newspapers portrayed ‘Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty ‘. In the Bangalore Times, an apt reporter had written a very informative article about KISSES which was about the different types of kisses, the ‘Kissing’ history of India etc. Why do we always blame extremist groups for creating fuss of every small event? These people are equally responsible.

Recently Bangalore Times published an article which had the heading"Chocoloates are better than Foreplay”. We can find such articles in TOI quite frequently. Once I read an article in Sunday Magazine which explained new fascinating ways of having sex. Even minors read news paper and I think they don’t really need this information. If they are trying to educate the minors about sex by such articles then it won’t really help. There are better ways to do so.

Everything changes with time, positively or negatively, and ‘Samachars’ are no exception.