Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Another news round up.

Today's the first day of the 48 hr nation wide strike called by the trade unions. Kochi bears resemblance to a ghost town and the normally overflowing roads are deserted where kids play cricket, football or even seven tiles as per their choices. I, too, wasn't that careful about walking on the road during my customary evening outing. Barring a few medical shops that were open all others, even eateries had their shutters down. Wondered as to how the attendants of patients at hospitals had their meals?

I'm going through some more news that have baffled me. And here they are:-

1. Readers Digest gone bankrupt.

    91 year old Reader's Digest magazine has filed for bankruptcy. Sad! It's said that the reason for this sad state is the increasing migration of readers from the print media to online services and the consequent reduction in advertisements hastened the downslide! But if that be the case, why didn't the proprietors foresee it and change accordingly, well in time?

The magazine that started in 1922, at New York, currently has 50 editions in 21 languages and statistics confirms that it has a readership of 1.6 crores! They've also assured that the current state would not affect their international operations and in Canada.

Sincerely hope not as I've got used to the 'Humour in Uniform', 'Life's like that' and the 'Book Section'! And cannot think of a world without them!1

2. The British Premier did not apologise!

David Cameron had visited the Jalianwala Bagh memorial and said that it was one of the shameful incidents of their history and stopped short of apologising for the incident. Consequently, many have come down harshly on the British Premier.

My take is of an entirely different hue on exercises of this nature. Actually, what is attained by an apology after many, many years of an incident? I mean I still can't fathom out as to what's achieved by it except that it's a great publicity stunt! Will the suffering and the shame undergone by those people of a different timeline be erased? Can the attitude of the oppressors then, be wished away? So why're we being hypocritical to the present generation who might indeed go the whole hog - as we've seen in a few cases in the past - to be politically correct as they want to do business!

The bottom line is that one must learn from history never to repeat the mistakes. And that's that!!


Tailpiece.

Events are taking place at a rapid pace and the beauty is that some of them were never, ever anticipated!

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