And here arrives another controversy for media to thrive on: Sheena murder case

With the new revelations in the Sheena Bora murder case and Indrani Mukherjea getting arrested, the whole Indian media has struck a new cord to increase their TRPs. Yesterday only it was Jasleen Kaur and Saravjit Singh being played again and again on your TV screens and today it is the mystery queen Indrani.Is it because media genuinely cares or the made race for more ratings is driving them to this stage of eccentricity. When stock market is down and rupee is losing its value, the only thing our favourite watchdog cares about is the filmy story of some high profile family. Who knew Indrani and her long list of husbands before today? No one and now the whole world know them and their story of life which will not add anything to their lives or intellectual level.Suddenly the rocketing onion prices, mudslides in Mizoram and militancy are of no concern. The only definition being given to journalism at this point of time is sleazy reporting. Are news channels and newspapers ought to entertain us or inform us? For such stories where murder, suspense, sex and drama are involved, we can always watch a movie or a serial. Why media is offering us the same shit by blending it with the idea of ‘Janta Ki News’. 

Are women the new masked devils?

One day it is a boy who is terrorizing a girl and the other day it is a girl defaming a boy with false claims. This recent story of Jasleen Kaur is disturbing as well as inspiring if she is genuine. Truth is not always what you see and i think that is what is happening in this incident. Is the reason behind this drama, the political aims of the girl? That is yet to be decided but for that truth has to be surfaced which is not easy.

Women are never safe in India, which is something no one can deny. But who is responsible for this stature of women. Yes, the reality is that women are turning out to be women’s enemy. Be it a dowry case or a fake molestation claim, women are degrading their own origin. Nirbhaya rape case was a crime which acted as an eye opener but now even the cases deadlier then that have lost their credibility because of one simple reason and that is women taking advantage of the judicial system. Who is to be blamed: the system, men for always demeaning women’s existence or women themselves for using the system for selfish interests.  

‘The Truman Show’— one smile which I will never forget

 A man so naïve, gorgeous and funny in his own way blew my heart away with his one innocent smile in this truly amazing movie. I have never seen something so interesting, disturbing and humorous at the same time.My devotion to this crazy star, Jim Carrey started the day I sat down to watch his movie with a friend during my IIMC days. We had exams coming up and this was the day everyone was out partying so even we ordered pizzas, it being our only option to food and snacks. I wanted to watch a movie which was set in modern times and not in 80s and 90s but on my friend’s insistence who loved to experiment with his movie choices, we decided on ‘The Truman Show’. I hated him then but I am glad he made me watch it that day.First ten minutes I was dying of boredom because I didn’t concentrate. And then the magic of Truman started to absorb me, there and then I realized something is fishy behind those regular routines and awesome looking backgrounds.Yes, I was not wrong everything was a set up to accommodate this TV reality star Truman Burbank. He had no idea that from his birth to his present he never had a real life in fact his destiny was in his audiences' hand rather than his own. It was a true example of world as a force conspiring against one childlike soul.And that godly smile on his face, he flashed it in every other second without even realizing that not only his wife, best friend and close ones but his own mother was also, a part of this heinous plot.How you will feel, if you realize that the life you lived all this while was a stage setup? Even the stuff he ate was some sort of product advertisement. All the people he met in his daily routine were some stage actors. Man, I feel so bad when I see him making love to a lady who has taken vows with him but in reality she is just playing the part of an onscreen wife. The whole neighborhood and also the whole city is playing its part to hide this reality of his life so that their source of entertainment doesn’t escape. This movie made me realize how cruel this world can get and in the end it is all money that matters.
As we watched it online and I missed the last 20 minutes of the movie, which were not available anywhere on internet. I am still not aware of what happened next and how those nasty people made up for messing up his life. But without even going to the end, I can say that it was the most beautiful thing and the most exotic smile, I have ever come across.

Am I repenting?

Once again I am sitting and wondering is this the media life I imagined? When I joined IIMC, I thought this would be one thing that I will never regret. Am I repenting my choice? Do I regret? It is difficult to answer this. I feel like an injured bird when I sit on my desk every day.  I want to fly but my wings have been chipped, I can take a flight but I will always end up falling.

Someone said to me few days back that you have a tendency to be never satisfied with your achieved goals. According to his interpretations, I have an exploring soul which has not taken many births and is exploring this world through me. Am I and my soul different? Aren’t we one and suppose to work in cohesion.

Even if my soul is exploring, what if I want to get settled? Every new day gives me a new idea and new hope. With every passing day that idea passes away and again I start my hunt. Will this fight for my inner thirst ever end? Or I will continue to haunt myself waiting for that gratification to reach me if I am unable to achieve it.