16 June, 2009

Short term memory loss

Ghajini portrayed a person having this rare disease of short term memory loss. Looks like even the citizens of this country are suffering from the same disease. I would really equate the protagonist in the film with the aam junta. Seriously!
Remember the Mumbai attacks in November… Everyone went haywire. Media went over board, Mumbai reacted strongly & the good old politicians kept mum. Everybody whether they were affected directly or indirectly watched the emotional assault on the financial capital on the TV. Whether it was Vilas Rao Deshmukh’s horror show by taking Ram Gopal Verma to the Taj or R.R Patil’s beautiful words “Small things happen in big cities”... Everyone’s heart was full of anger, pain & revenge. We could do nothing. We could jus do a peace march in Mumbai or light candles or jus frown over the incident. Finally, after a month the voices fizzled out. The central govt, to save its own ass, decided to sack Vilas Rao & Patil. Patil was replaced by Chhagan Bhujbal. Now comes the short memory loss part. Bhujbal was the same man who was made to resign for his alleged role in Telgi case. Media dint raise the issue nor did the common man. The debate about the attacks was on though.
Indian Cricket team… We support them, we hail them, and we call them our heroes… But only when the win! India was out of the world T20 cup even before the semi finals. This is a HUGE thing in India. And the criticism started to flow. The media were at it again. Dhoni was criticized for his captaincy, for his batting, for his press conferences & what not! Even other players faced the wrath. Short memory loss again! The same Dhoni won us the T20 world cup last time; the Dhoni did wonders with his batting in many tournaments. Well, the media in India is bull shit. They show the worst possible news on the channel & praise themselves for doing it. When India loses, they bash everyone. One channel even went on saying the “Dhoni… Arrogance Personified”. Ya! WTF moment!
We as a common man know wat is right & wat not. The media need not tell us that. DO it wat you are supposed to do!

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