No wonder i drew inspiration for the title of this post from a "famous" TV soap opera which began with a social issue at its core and ended with the melodrama on its periphery hogging all the prime time. By the way, am i straying around without addressing or respecting the title over here? Yes, may be...coz i wanna be a doggie!
Why? Lets see if all the reasons inspire you too... oooooooooooooooo!!! (my howling beginning to the post!)
Reason 1 : Doggies get a chauffer driven car (AC ofcourse with high class classical music from Chopin playing inside...i could only hear the C note)
Reason 2: Doggie gets DKNY to hold a world view with which it wags its tail on to my countenance
Reason 3: Doggie gets exotic food for which i can only curse my wallet that does not allow me to gobble all those down
Reason 4: Doggie gets public toilet facilities on posh streets (human public toilets are no more usable)
Reason 5: Doggie does not get sued for polygamy or adultery in any country (don't blame me for obscenity anyway. By the way i did not speak of polyandry ;-))
Reason 6: Do you want more reasons??? Rake your head if you want... I am gonna pray... I am no more agnostic... I may turn a theist (read "a-theist" in one breath, not a tough exercise guys...) soon.
Disclosure: No malice held against human community and no doggie bashing intended in the post.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
End of an Era
An article in the EYE weekly of Indian Express informs me that the coveted BBC Hindi goes off the air on April 1 due to shortage of funding. The nostalgic write-up covers how BBC Hindi came to India before independence and evolved in this nation which transcended from controlled media to a free one which is it today. Ms. Achala Sharma's article has been plagiarized by me. I have lifted the caption of her article to decorate my blog out here.
By the way, the article further informs me that FM channels are not allowed to broadcast news. So what the evolution was all about in India?
However, central idea to my blog is this - how many of us will miss the services. I think hardly anyone in metros and Tier I cities. People who will miss it will be mostly from small towns and villages. FM has not reached them but the TV has. DTH has made deep inroads. The radio is out of the window. So the possible outcomes after April 1 (no offences intended) :
1. People will go into deep slumber listening to monotonous voices of radio jockeys or hosts, hosting programs / fillers on "jaccha-baccha care", polio "teeka" mission, "jaago grahak jaago" campaigns, bollywood music, classical music, folk music, farmers' educative sessions (as if the farmer farmed only when they guided him) etc.
2. Misguided news coverage will supplement mind-polluting broadcast on TV and sub-standard coverage by local newspapers.
3. Demand for all cocky news channels on TV goes up, TRP rating shoots up, but market plunges, inflation takes India growth story down the gutter and young minds are full of weird ideas worth nothing for them.
4. Laid off correspondents at BBC Hindi are forced to join headless media houses, do translation jobs for MEA, teach at corporate sponsored journo programs and only linger in their past memories of a vibrant service they were into.
5. I hope the only positive thing would be to continue the services under an FM channel and our city brethren shall listen to thee, my BBC Hindi dear!
An honourable salute to the BBC Hindi team and I wish them a contended life for they never became part of the sensationalized news services that pervades the media today.
By the way, the article further informs me that FM channels are not allowed to broadcast news. So what the evolution was all about in India?
However, central idea to my blog is this - how many of us will miss the services. I think hardly anyone in metros and Tier I cities. People who will miss it will be mostly from small towns and villages. FM has not reached them but the TV has. DTH has made deep inroads. The radio is out of the window. So the possible outcomes after April 1 (no offences intended) :
1. People will go into deep slumber listening to monotonous voices of radio jockeys or hosts, hosting programs / fillers on "jaccha-baccha care", polio "teeka" mission, "jaago grahak jaago" campaigns, bollywood music, classical music, folk music, farmers' educative sessions (as if the farmer farmed only when they guided him) etc.
2. Misguided news coverage will supplement mind-polluting broadcast on TV and sub-standard coverage by local newspapers.
3. Demand for all cocky news channels on TV goes up, TRP rating shoots up, but market plunges, inflation takes India growth story down the gutter and young minds are full of weird ideas worth nothing for them.
4. Laid off correspondents at BBC Hindi are forced to join headless media houses, do translation jobs for MEA, teach at corporate sponsored journo programs and only linger in their past memories of a vibrant service they were into.
5. I hope the only positive thing would be to continue the services under an FM channel and our city brethren shall listen to thee, my BBC Hindi dear!
An honourable salute to the BBC Hindi team and I wish them a contended life for they never became part of the sensationalized news services that pervades the media today.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Crazy statisticians
I wondered at the news item which read "The devout tend to have more children (Source: IANS) dated Jan 12, 2011". My wonderment is not at the finding which was stated as "Some religious sects had fertility rates 3 or 4 times the general population, Rowthorn noted, reports the jounal proceedings of the Royal Society B.", rather at the crazy statistical results which occur in the next para. It reads, "The World Values Survey covering 82 nations from 1981 to 2004, found that adults attending religious services more than once a week had 2.5 children on an average; while those who went once a month had 2 and those who never attended had 1.67. Note the crazy things about this statement.
1. Did you ever imagine your children in fractions. Imagine you bump into a guy in a networking session, during your conference on whatever subject, and he asks you, how many children you have and you uttered with a slight thought lent to formulating the response, "ummm... 1.78... coz i think my wife is 7 months pregnant".
2. Somebody just had the dare to ask these church going, temple going and mosque going people how many children you have (outside your wife's womb and how many inside. Oh, my god! in the first point I made here I forgot that there can be twins 7 months old in a woman's womb or there may be two women pregnant simlutaneously becuase of the same man! And this has further complication that both women may have twins and more and additonally they may not be due for delivery in next 2 months exact.... huff what a digression.) Dear statisticians lend me you ears!! you have a daunting data awaiting your statistical onslaught.
3. Classifications of people going to religious institutions based on their frequency of attending religious activities. What a deep study! Send them to North Arctic circle to find out and suggest ways to sort out inter-national boundary disputes of the continental shelf which have huge gas reserves beneath.
I am sick of doing these analyses... and you may be equally sick by now... signing off... :)
1. Did you ever imagine your children in fractions. Imagine you bump into a guy in a networking session, during your conference on whatever subject, and he asks you, how many children you have and you uttered with a slight thought lent to formulating the response, "ummm... 1.78... coz i think my wife is 7 months pregnant".
2. Somebody just had the dare to ask these church going, temple going and mosque going people how many children you have (outside your wife's womb and how many inside. Oh, my god! in the first point I made here I forgot that there can be twins 7 months old in a woman's womb or there may be two women pregnant simlutaneously becuase of the same man! And this has further complication that both women may have twins and more and additonally they may not be due for delivery in next 2 months exact.... huff what a digression.) Dear statisticians lend me you ears!! you have a daunting data awaiting your statistical onslaught.
3. Classifications of people going to religious institutions based on their frequency of attending religious activities. What a deep study! Send them to North Arctic circle to find out and suggest ways to sort out inter-national boundary disputes of the continental shelf which have huge gas reserves beneath.
I am sick of doing these analyses... and you may be equally sick by now... signing off... :)
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