This weekend has been really nice. It was a restful one and I was able to tie up a lot many things for the coming week and also clear the backlog! I shall touch upon a few things that thrilled, amused and irritated me this time.
1. KBC is back!
My favourite programme, 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' hosted by Amitabh Bachchan is back on the Sony entertainment channel. It's gonna be aired for the next twelve weekends and I shan't, to the extent feasible, miss any of the episodes. Mr. Bachchan's easy and natural act in putting the contestants at ease should be a lesson for the other hosts on similar shows.
What makes it endearing for me are the following factors:-
(a) Mr. Bachchan's class and effortless act as the host.
(b) The genuine thrill on the part of the participants to be with Mr. Bachchan(In fact, this
evening, a young gentleman literally threw himself on the host after being cleared to sit
on the 'hot' seat).
(c) The quiz covers a fairly wide repertoire.
(d) Am a quiz buff myself and have hosted a few similar programmes!
2. Insistence on speed governors.
After a spate of road accidents that took many lives, the Motor Vehicle Department of the state has swung into action. The accidents have been caused mainly because of overspeeding to meet unimaginable schedules in the greed to make more money. The drivers negotiate their vehicles through traffic as though the roads form part of their personal fiefdom and most of them drive with a gay abandon with scant respect to their fellow motorists.
Over 300 private buses and almost a hundred buses of the road transport corporation find that their 'road worthiness' certificates have been annulled for not having the mandatory requirements - the speed governor being just one among them! The bus owners have decided to take their buses off the roads, beginning tonight, saying that they're being discriminated by the Motor Vehicle Department vis-a-vis the state road transport corporation. What amuses me is that they don't seem to understand the need for speed governors and chastising their workers to be more disciplined.
Or is it that a strict MVD is unacceptable to us mallus? We actually want them to be corrupt and compromising so that we can cut corners the way we want without caring a damn about rules and regulations!
3. Carnage and riots in Muzaffarnagar.
Muzaffarnagar, in Uttar Pradesh, has flared up this time over an innocuous issue as per my understanding - the love affair of a girl and a boy belonging to different communities viz. the Jats and the Gujjars. Scores of people have died and I wonder as to how people can take the life of another on such a flimsy reason. If one is averse to such a relationship, the prudent thing would be to leave the couple to live by themselves and if they succeed just accept the simple fact that they're made for each other.
Wonder what the law enforcing agencies and the elders were doing? Life doesn't seem to have taught anything for the latter. Sad!
Tailpiece.
I suppose this bundle of contradictions makes India quite different from the rest!
1. KBC is back!
My favourite programme, 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' hosted by Amitabh Bachchan is back on the Sony entertainment channel. It's gonna be aired for the next twelve weekends and I shan't, to the extent feasible, miss any of the episodes. Mr. Bachchan's easy and natural act in putting the contestants at ease should be a lesson for the other hosts on similar shows.
What makes it endearing for me are the following factors:-
(a) Mr. Bachchan's class and effortless act as the host.
(b) The genuine thrill on the part of the participants to be with Mr. Bachchan(In fact, this
evening, a young gentleman literally threw himself on the host after being cleared to sit
on the 'hot' seat).
(c) The quiz covers a fairly wide repertoire.
(d) Am a quiz buff myself and have hosted a few similar programmes!
2. Insistence on speed governors.
After a spate of road accidents that took many lives, the Motor Vehicle Department of the state has swung into action. The accidents have been caused mainly because of overspeeding to meet unimaginable schedules in the greed to make more money. The drivers negotiate their vehicles through traffic as though the roads form part of their personal fiefdom and most of them drive with a gay abandon with scant respect to their fellow motorists.
Over 300 private buses and almost a hundred buses of the road transport corporation find that their 'road worthiness' certificates have been annulled for not having the mandatory requirements - the speed governor being just one among them! The bus owners have decided to take their buses off the roads, beginning tonight, saying that they're being discriminated by the Motor Vehicle Department vis-a-vis the state road transport corporation. What amuses me is that they don't seem to understand the need for speed governors and chastising their workers to be more disciplined.
Or is it that a strict MVD is unacceptable to us mallus? We actually want them to be corrupt and compromising so that we can cut corners the way we want without caring a damn about rules and regulations!
3. Carnage and riots in Muzaffarnagar.
Muzaffarnagar, in Uttar Pradesh, has flared up this time over an innocuous issue as per my understanding - the love affair of a girl and a boy belonging to different communities viz. the Jats and the Gujjars. Scores of people have died and I wonder as to how people can take the life of another on such a flimsy reason. If one is averse to such a relationship, the prudent thing would be to leave the couple to live by themselves and if they succeed just accept the simple fact that they're made for each other.
Wonder what the law enforcing agencies and the elders were doing? Life doesn't seem to have taught anything for the latter. Sad!
Tailpiece.
I suppose this bundle of contradictions makes India quite different from the rest!
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