SLOKAS!!

Hmm, I shall give a string of slokas and their meanings starting from this blog. If i may be permitted to blow my own trumpet, these are from my class six Sanskrit textbook. I somehow still remember these, but not slokas from other classes.

na chourahaaryam na cha raajahaaryam
na bhraatrubhaajyam na cha bhaarakaari
vyaye krute vardhata eva nityam
vidyaadhanam sarvadhanapradhaanam

The wealth called education cannot be stolen by thieves, cannot be taken away by the king (let's say, the authorities), cannot be divided by brothers, is not a cause for burden. It increases on being spent, it is the most important among all wealth

Media neutrality, radio and me

The title may seem a little strange. I am going to write about three different things, there is no inter-connection. And those of you who are pretty optimistic in their outlook towards life, kindly proceed no further. This is a cynical piece of writing!!

The media is supposed to be unbiased and concern itself with only reporting facts, leaving the public to make their own deductions and conclusions. Right? Hogwash!! Today everything is about sensationalism, TRP ratings and readership survey results (i forget what the rating system used in radio is). For e.g., take the case of the sentencing of Sanjay Dutt. I think i will be right in saying that the sentencing of the guy to six years RI has had more press coverage than the death sentence given to Yakub Memon. Agreed, crores are riding on the actor, still!!

Then we have the over-enthusiastic TV channels jumping one over the other in conducting sting operations and exposes. While they do talk about good issues, it is the melodrama that gets onto your nerves. As per hearsay, the Hindu is biased towards the Left, the ToI towards the Congress and India Today towards the BJP. The day when all of mankind lets go of biases and believes in cold, clear logic, that is when the media will become unbiased!!

Now moving onto radio, 1-2 years back there was an FM radio channel in Hyderabad. We first found out about it's existence through our car music system. The channel NEVER had anything but songs on air. Contrast that with today's FM channels. You have the RJs yakking about anything and everything under the sun (if they can talk so much, i must be given the license to exaggerate a little) and that too in strange voices. This is similar to those TV shows where you have a hostess going around to colleges and residential areas asking people about songs, their lifestyles, all the while giggling and laughing like a hyena who has just had a glass of bhaang!! Another interesting thing to see is the reaction of the normal public in front of a camera. Imagine a scene in front of a court after a verdict has been give. A lawyer is being asked to comment. Now visualize the people standing behind him. Some keep straining their necks to be in the camera's field of view., some wave their hands etc.

Now coming to me, a few people must have thought what the name of the blog means. It means this and that in Telugu. Watch this space for more stuff.