Crazy Kiya Re

CAS is here. a day early. Only news channels, some more news channels, doordarshan and its children, regional language channels, jagran.... wooohooo. After watching amisha patel get tormented by dead hrithik roshan lookalike new hrithik roshan for the hundredth time.. and cringing at hrithik's painful efforts at overacting, i discover (and am subsequently told AGAIN and AGAIN) that Zoom and Times Now are free to air in CAS notified regions. balle balle.

I get to watch songs of Salaam-e-ishq where i notice that all the three songs i saw had been picturised atleast in part on the millenium bridge in London!! Some people sure love the bridge!

Doordashan was showing this program where the cartoonist, Sudhir Tailang, was trying to interview Gulzar and was doing a very pathetic job of it. Such acute discomfort that I am sure that both would have been very glad if the ceiling had fallen on their heads rather than going ahead with the interview.

Times Now was showing clippings from various interviews done by Arnab Goswami over the year. While the show was interesting, it furthened my resolve to name my son Arnab or Arnav (or one of the other forms of the name, if any). (hanso mat!)

I also finally saw the famous MIKA video where he explains why he kissed Rakhi. Amazing man! what freedom to put whatever crap one wants on the television!! I wonder if there was a contest of the most trivial item which made breaking news this year who would walk away with the top spot: rakhi-mika, prince or sunju baba? more nominations are welcome.

After preparing lunch and sitting down to eat it, I made the grave mistake (no pun intended) of watching news channels while eating and the gory details of the NOIDA murders took away most of the fun out of the meal. (And what the hell is this looping of small clippings business on news channels. urgggghhhh.)

This inhumane crime, the hanging of Saddam Hussein... they just reiterate what I said in my previous post.(and which HoH finds very frivolous :P) ANYTHING is possible. There is no permanence in any institution of any kind. We humans engage in a constant race to outdo ourselves: technologically, economically, politically, socially, culturally. Some of these races are for the bottom. We are testing how low we can stoop. And I am not pointing fingers. I, unfortunately, may be doing the same.

I hope the new year productively channelises our energies and we become better human beings.

Enjoy!