Turned on the news to check on what happened post the Hyd blasts. What do I see? Salman Khan meeting Katrina in this jail, Sanjay Dutt making chairs/tables in that jail, Saif's ex-girl Rosa on the set of some cooking show, SRK talking about Chak De India, etc etc. Ok this is news, but what about REAL news?
30 min of one news bulletin is split 70 - 30 in favour of bollywood, which leaves less than ten min to talk about what impacts regular people across the country.
My dad tells me that many years ago they used to screen short news programmes in cinema theatres before the movie began. Seems like that's happening on the news channels now.
Monday 27 August, 2007
Thursday 23 August, 2007
Choices by Autorickshaw
Bombay, Aug 11.
Bombay auto guy: Let's take the other route, this one's too congested.
Me: Let's stick to this route. This is the one I know.
Bombay auto guy: Look at the traffic ! (pointing to a lane in the distance going the other way.) The other route will be freer.
Me: But.....
Bombay auto guy (zooming down the "other" route): It'll be muuuch quicker.
*Bumper-to-bumper traffic*
Me: Well....there's so much traffic here.
Bombay auto guy: Yes, there's too much traffic all over Bombay.
Me: But you said this route will be free of traffic.
Bombay auto guy: Yes, this route is freer.
Me: But it's not.
Bombay auto guy: Yes, there's too much traffic all over Bombay.
Me: You said this route will be free.
Bombay auto guy: Yes, this route is free.
Me: But there's traffic.
Bombay auto guy: Yes, very bad traffic all over Bombay.
Me: But.........oh what the heck!!
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