All posts by sanjayshukla360
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 […]
#TheKashmirFiles – Our Own Schindler’s List
Seldom do I use this platform to post anything on movies… In fact, people closer to me know, I’m not much of a movie guy. I don’t go to theatres. I watch movies on OTT platforms & I’m selective about them too. But, after watching #TheKashmirFiles, I was numb. The movie is a grey, painful, […]
Fun Astrology by Lay Astrologer
Phew! Finally, I am back in the office after travelling around the Himalayas and meeting the Bulletproof Monk, who sold his Tata Nano. I had gone on this break as I saw “What’s Your Rashee” (an Indian Hindi comedy film) on an OTT platform and developed a strong repulsion against writing horoscope predictions. My company […]
Animals Vs Humans in a Zoo
Animals of Nehru Zoological Park at Hyderabad have been left confused for the last couple of days as more than 25,000 people turned up to see them on the New Year’s Day. Even though this event has now become an annual affair over the years in the city, it seems that the animals still have […]
How to Pray? What to Pray?
Once my Guru was at prayer. I went to him and said, “Guruji, teach me how to pray.” My Guru was known to explain anything with cryptic short stories. He narrated the following story. And, this is how he taught me how to pray… Ram and Shyam were once walking through a field when they […]
Change Your Silly Beliefs…Instead of Your Religion.
Long, long back, many, many years ago, an older woman who was an enthusiastic gardener declared that she had no faith whatsoever in assertions that someday scientists would learn to predict the weather accurately. According to her, God controls the weather and prayer was the only way to understand and forecast conditions. During one summer, […]
Having Prayers Answered at the Right Time
It’s no good having our prayers answered If they are not answered at the right time: Long, long ago, in ancient Vedic India, prayers and Hawan/Homam, one of the Vedic rites, were said to be so scientific in application that when sages and seers prayed for rain, there was never any drought in the region. […]