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It's just been one of those days, when you feel really eerie for no reason...and then you run out of work and are completely resigned to the awkwardness of useless eerie hours that don't feel right. Hence you see the template overhaul and all on this page. Yes the breaking news of today is the new incarnation of Public diary, updated profile and all. Didn't have too much enthu, so did whatever little I felt like.
But speaking of news brings to my mind scary visuals and audios, complete with special effects and jarring colours, of the flurry of 24*7 News Channels on television these days. You know my mum has a thing about watching only 'light entertainment' programs on television when we eat in front of the TV. We used to watch comedies or things like that earlier, now we usually switch to a news channel for some bad-taste humour and "entertainment"! All I'm trying to put in words here is a near-disgust at the amount of commercialisation and marketing that has crept into the idiot box on the name of News- real or fictional, impactful or gloated. What I absolutely fail to understand is how come nobody knows the actual meaning of the term BREAKING NEWS. It was coined for really important news that would arrive right in the middle of bulletin, or really really important news that would arrive in the middle of usual programming, and cause sudden change of agenda for the broadcasters, in the good lod days, and the news readers would struggle with a script beign updated by the second. Guess what was the breaking news on some channel(don't know which, they all look the same) I caught last evening: Laloo paid 10 Lakh bill for his daughter's 30 april wedding at Ashoka hotel! What is 'breaking' about it...Goddammit he even paid it!!Somebody teach them words like Headlines, or Newsflash or something...[:(]
On a slightly more grim note, I just feel like talking of a news I saw this morning...about the sky-rocketing prices of virtually everything this week. In a space of less than a week, fruits vegetables grains cereals just about everything is costing two to three times its price. No wonder the common man is distressed. Afterall everyone needs to survive. There's no doubt about the fact that the inflation is happening somewhere between the peasant and the wholesaler, and I have a strong feeling it is purely an artificial scarcity created in the name of rains and other things by some people who want to protest over the fuel increase. I mean diesel has become slightly costlier, but not so much that tomatoes start costing 45 rupees a kg instead of 18. stinks of conspiracy?