Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Nostalgic Stuff Redux
Apart from my good ol' blog buddies, search engines help in generating a sizeable (by my standards) page hits on this blog. From politics to pornography, a variety of keywords guide them here. But it is one particular post of July 24, 2005 that attracts them the most. Those who missed it the first time, here's an encore:
Remember the good (?) ol' days when our air space (now cable space) was monopolised by Doordarshan and a hundred and one (I know there are more) channels were not jostling for TRP (eyeball) ratings? Remember the mesmerising Bharat Ek Khoj /Discovery of India? Recall the Ek Chidiya, Anek Chidiya... animated film? I know you do and so do I.
Surfing through the net, I stumbled across them. The soundtrack of Bharat Ek Khoj and the Ek Chidiya, Anek Chidiya video. Some good souls had posted them on their blogs and I'm simply passing it on.
Bharat Ek Khoj
Title Song: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~ramv/Khoj/Bharat_Ek_Khoj.mp3
Lyrics: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~ramv/Khoj/Titles.txt
Ending Titles: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~ramv/Khoj/Bharat_Ek_Khoj_Ending.mp3
Lyrics: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~ramv/Khoj/Ending_Titles.txt
(Courtesy: http://resonant-cavity.blogspot.com)
Ek aur Anek Ekta
Video: http://kalyanvarma.net/stuff/ek_anek_aur_ekta.wmv
(Courtesy: http://kalyanvarma.net)
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I Missed the Fire
It snowed in Kashmir and rained in Delhi. I was on the way to office, the phone buzzed. It was my reliable jurno friend on the other end. "There's a fire at Barakhamba Road," she warned. I checked my bag and the camera was there. "Something for the blog," I smiled to myself. By the time I reached there, the firemen had done their job. "Damn!" I said. "No blazing flames, no good photograph." Doesn't the news industry also behave like me? Waiting for a disaster to happen, things to go wrong, in a big and 'newsworthy' way. So that they can bask in professional glory. No glory for me here, only a few unphotogenic photographs.
Monday, January 02, 2006
Where do Persons of Paramount Prominence Pee?
The respected Prime Minister (accompanied by a bevy of other VVIPs) inaugurated the latest addition to Delhi's Metro Rail. VVIPs are an endangered species, or so it seems by the security cover around them and the trouble which common citizen has to undergo because some VVIP coincidentally chose to take the same route as him. When such a person of paramount importance is invited to inaugurate something or the other like the Barakhamba-Dwarka metro line, the police cordon off the area, close the shops down. The roadside tea-stall owner loses on his early morning earning because some non Z-category entity couldn't have possibly inaugurated something like this.
The coffers are filled with the tax-payers' hard-earned money, so spending a little on avoidable functions and the associated security is no big deal. The tea-stall guy can manage without half-a-day's earning. Our big projects will perhaps not function to the optimum if someone high up in the order of precedence doesn't cut the red ribbon. While our chaiwallah and his customers can continue to relieve themselves on the walls of the metro-station and fill the milieu with pee-perfume.
VVIP security and inauguration ceremonies are definitely more important than avoidable expenditure on proper bladder relieving zones. The ones that exist are too few and filthy; those which aren't demand a price which the common man doesn't or cannot spare. People smoke publicly with impunity and there exists a law prohibiting smoking in public places; the 'Do Not Pass Urine Here' board is not deterrent enough for watering the trees - for free.
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