Monthly Archives: April 2022
TRP… Bakwas News
A group of supernatural creatures voted Indian news channel Bakwas News as the best news channel of the last decade. The winner was chosen after thousands of bhoot (ghosts), pishaach (devils), djinn (genies), him-maanav (Himalayan Yetis), taantrik (black-magicians), chudail (vamps), daayan (witches), ….etc. took part in an occult poll conducted by Bekar Group. Only Hindi […]
Terror Attacks and Indian News Channels
The whole nation was shell-shocked when Sanjay Shukla, a 46-year-old unemployed writer, forgot that it is 26th Nov’, the day Mumbai terror attacks happened. This… despite the fact that all the news channels of India were relentlessly trying to remind everyone that Mumbai was attacked and hundreds of innocent people were killed exactly a year […]
Death of a Patient or Death of Ethics???
What happens when a patient dies in a Private Hospital? A news channel that is at the bottom of the TRP (Television Rating Point) breaks this news in bold and screaming letters with a menacing background score – ‘Hospital’s or Doctors’ Negligence claims a patient’s life!’ Caught off-guard, another news channel, eying the next week’s TAM (Television Audience Measurement) ratings, joins the melee with a […]
My Humble Tribute to a City that Changed my Life
Many years ago I travelled hundreds of kilometers from my home to *Kashi (also called Varanasi)* where I first lost, then found, and then ultimately became true to myself. They call it *Banaras* also. It is also considered to be the oldest city in India. I found it to be the dirtiest city (heard […]