The trust...we are losing it...

Where are we heading with such a media who instead of addressing the truth, is busy manipulating and hiding it. Only creating headlines and rising TRP has become whole and sole business of today’s news channels. I understand the tough competition has made them crabs, who try to pull each other’s leg, but in current scenario, it has lost whole purpose of its existence, which is ‘to bring the truth in front of people’  

I was watching a show called ‘seedhi baat’ which gets telecast on one of the most popular entertainment channel ‘Aaj Tak’ (you can sue me for not calling it a news channel, I just don’t care). Now there is a guy Rahul Kanwar (I unfollowed him on twitter), host of the show, taking interview of arguably the most popular person in India Anna Hazare. Anna is currently on a fast in favor of a strong Lokpal Bill, so no doubt that this interview was being telecast irrespective of when this episode was shot live.

‘Do you think Congress government is not opting for a strong lokpal bill?’ Rahul kanwar asked politely.

‘why such question? We all can see that’ anna replied on a stupid question indeed.

‘So you are against Congress. And which means you are supporting BJP as we all know enemy of an enemy is a friend’ see how the person is trying trick.

‘I am not saying that, in fact as far as I can see no party is capable of fighting corruption as they all are involved in the chain. Our parliament need good people, there must be an alternate option for people of India to vote for’  

‘Alternate option means you are saying you are going to create a political party against Congress and BJP’ on this question I felt like abusing Rahul for twisting the statement. Meanwhile breaking news starts flashing on the screen ‘Anna hints of creating a new political party’. Bravo Aaj Tak.

‘No No I am not saying that I will create a new party or fight an election. It’s not against any party, its against corruption. I am saying that people, good people should come ahead with a new party, which will be corruption free and will work for country rather than themselves. I will support such party, I will support those good people.’  Now we can see instead of putting his own thoughts and issues, poor guy started justifying things which were just creation of Mr. Rahul Kanwar.

‘So what will be the name of this Anna’s party?’

‘I am saying this will not be my party, it will be people’s party’ he explained again.

‘Okay, so what will be the name of this people’s party whose leader is Anna Hazare?

I almost threw the remote on the TV. See how this people manipulate things and create breaking news out of it. Not sure how Anna Hazare was feeling about it but I was feeling sad about the situation and I am sure however was watching, will be in sync with my thoughts. This is not just one; there are almost similar incidences in every news.  I remember once in an interview Sachin Tendulkar was asked about some statement given by Sehwag. I saw him saying that ‘I am not aware of the statement’. Next day there was breaking news flashing which said, ‘Tendulkar says he is not aware of things in dressing room’ and the video clip played the part of sentence which he has said, ‘I am not aware’. So for all those, who didn’t watch the complete interview, were being fed by news which in reality does not exist.

I don’t know what the solution is. I am not aware if anything positive can be done about it or not. I don’t know if a news is being telecast, what part of it is true and if at all there is any truth. I am losing my trust in media, in system, in government. May be it is the same with all those who have left out the word ‘India’ from all the positives. May be that is the reason ‘India’ for us has become only a word, to be criticized, to be blamed, to be harassed….The trust in India, I guess we are losing it….  

how much Hike you got?

‘How much hike you got?’ most common and a trending one for this week, as hike letter is nothing but a memento which certifies your worth and subsistence as an earner. After giving a thought I realized it is no different to the grades when I was in a state of making investment so that I can come to a state of making the core of world, money, the state which was and still is called college.

So I was just finding quite lot similarities in a grades and the hike, after all both came in form of a memo and once they come you no longer feel contented, comparisons never gave comfort to anyone. Am I wasting time in such a stupid comparison? Well answer might not be what I want to hear but then it’s always better to waste or rather I would say to spend some time doing what you appreciate.

There are always people with better grades and same is true otherwise. Hike is no different. A moment you see a guy with less grade than yours, pleased, next moment a new guy with a better hike than you, miserable. Now after the time has passed and I see my grades and don’t remember people who got higher or lower than me, I realized that I got smile on my face, they were enough for me to get a good job and a good earning. Is the same rule applies on hike too? At present I am not able to decide but then who knows when this time will pass and there will be no comparisons this might well be satisfactory and might bring a smile on my face again.

‘Satisfaction is the key’ someone said from behind, ‘how will you grow if you are satisfied?’ was the reply from other, argument is never ending, unbound, As there are always two categories of others and I am yet to decide whether to be pleased that I got better than the first type of others or to be poignant that I got less than second kind of others, I think i will pass both options.   

     

injection, which i remembered

I entered home with a bang, literally, the bang came from the bag hitting the floor, and before that, it was in air at least for 4 seconds.

‘One day I will make it touch to the fan’ I said to my younger brother who was small enough not to understand what I said, but the kind of expressions he was giving were weird, eyes stretched, teeth clenched, nose pulled up and four to five skin-made lines on the forehead. ‘What are you up to brother?’ I asked as if the two year lad will answer in Latin, well he answered but it came from some other route…n surely it was Latin. I just held my breath and almost, with a voice of puuufffffff…I was in front of my mom saying, ‘holy cow, I smelled the shit’. She stared at me, may be because I used the word ‘shit’ but then that’s what I did, I mean not did, I smelled, yuk.

‘I have to take you to the doctor’ she said while she was cleaning the shit off (literally) and I was still using both the hands to cover my nose. After that whatever she said I don’t remember except ‘injection’, I have heard about it from some of my friends, it makes a hole in your butt and you are not able to walk properly after that. Blood in the vein dried, air in the lungs disappeared, head started spinning, eyes started rolling, legs trembling and next moment, I was on the ground. ‘enough, you do the same act every time, try something creative next time and if you don’t get up in next second I will make you wash your brothers butts’ my mother said laughing, and I was on my feet. ‘But mom…’

‘It is for your good and will protect you from hepatitis B’

‘Bloody B grade hippopotamus’

‘Its hepatitis…not hippo…’

‘Yeah yeah, I know…’

Hospital was hardly a walk away from my home and in no time we were in front of a hell like beautiful lady, in minis, having long white legs like, like…hmm…like…

‘Mom, which animal has very long legs?’ ‘Giraffe’

‘Yes…like giraffe…but white giraffe’ I said.

‘What are you talking about?’ she asked in confusion.

‘Oops…nothing’ I bit my lips.

‘Okay…say hello to sister’ she said pointing towards the girl in mini.

Hello…what? Sister? Oh forget it mom, she can be your daughter-in-law, but never your daughter. I omitted the word ‘sister’ from my ‘hello’ and instead of replying to my hello she pointed me towards the corner, which was having a bed with green curtains around. A bed, a curtain, she seems to be in hurry, I thought. I almost forgot why I was here, but it didn’t take long to realize and next moment I was lying, my shorts down, and the girl mini, rubbing my butt. I turned towards my mother with a look of ‘can’t you see your son is getting harassed by this Giraffe legged lady’ she smiled, as if understood, and said ‘its some antibiotic, which will make your skin germ free’ uufff…somebody help…and then the moment came, nurse drilled my left butt and I was helpless just thinking about the size of hole it might have made. While walking to home my mother said, ‘Did you do something in your pants?’

‘No…yuk….hell no’ I shouted.

‘Then walk straight, no need to act’. I started walking properly, and then I realized there was nothing wrong to my butts. I smiled, looked up and saw she was also smiling.