Friday 11 September 2009

What a White Show!

The love for the gora chamdi among Indians couldn’t have been more prominent. Our very own media houses have turned up to the white skin to rescue them from the maze of dipping TRPs. General news channels still haven’t done that but business news channels are certainly racing against one another to show the best of white skin they have.
Eight-nine years back when CNBC TV18 launched in India it made waves with the ‘firang’ connection of CNBC in US. Prettiest of all faces were displayed and the trend continues even today. In fact, it has become more aggressive now.
We have ET NOW which launched on June 17 and tied up with Reuters. Which means more of white skin show for the viewers. The thing about white foreigners is that Indians consider them beautiful even if they don’t have the best of features.
We thought that ‘racism’ would stop at that but heck no! We now have UTVi tying up with Bloomberg for their share of the white skin pie. If you look at all the four channels together which I do in my office you will realize that our Indian channels look more like foreign ones, something like BBC.
NDTV Profit still makes you feel at home as of now with no foreign affiliations to boast of. I won’t be surprised if they announce a tie-up with ABC or any other channel. Tie-up with ABC wouldn’t make sense anyway.

Thursday 3 September 2009

Ganpati Bappa morya, purchya varshi lavkar yaa!


An intricate assortment of vibrant colours of Ganesha murtis. It was a rally of fun and happiness coupled with flowerworks & fireworks.

It was quite a twist of events which was clearly visible on news channels running breaking news from dawn to dusk. The morning was occupied by minute by minute update on YSR Reddy's crashed chopper followed by his demise and evening was giving a minute by minute update on how many kilometers 'Lalbaghcha Raja' had covered.

The rally for Lord Ganesha's 'visarjan' was humungous, I was tired just by looking at the number of people dancing & walking around me. Mom too kept on going further for a while then gave up, thinking this much 'darshan' was enough for the year. But truly felt fulfilled after admiring so many beautiful idols.

You can't get greener than this vegetable ganesha

This is the green Ganesha among assorted veggies.
Long live the culture of Hindu festivals!