THE CRAPBOOK

Yesterday in Channel 9 (which is a Bangalore based English news channel) was featuring a call-in program where the viewers could ask questions to a gentleman from Sri Ramasena.

Caller #1 “Why are you saying that we should not celebrate Valentines Day?”

Gentleman “Why do you want to celebrate love on only one day? Why can’t you celebrate 365 days?”

Caller #1 “Why do we then sir celebrate Independence Day on one day?”

Gentleman visibly pissed off! “What are you taaking man, that is what we are say ,  we need to celebrate all day. Why are we celebrating one day?”

Caller #1 verbally confused hangs up.

Caller #2 “Sir, what is your definition of Indian culture”

Gentleman “Respecting Indian culture is Indian culture. Not pub culture. Indian culture is respect”

Caller #2 “Okay, so do you think beating up girls is Indian culture?”

Gentleman “What are you talking? We apolized ! WE APOLIZED ! So what are you saying madam. What you saying? WHAT DO YOU THINK?”

Caller #2 “You say you are a social worker, don’t you think there are much more important issues to handle than silly issues like Valentines Day?”

Gentleman “We are helping people, the other day a man took a girl and stayed for 2 months. Our sevaks married that girl after wards. We are doing social work!”

Caller #2 did not have words, I can’t blame her.

Caller #3 an elderly gentleman in his 50’s “Who do you think you are to control our girls?. WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT?? …….”

Gentleman from sena “ WHO DO YOU THINK ….”

Caller #3 “WHO DO ….”

Gentleman “MIND YOUR LANG….”

And it went on and on.

I guess this program was recorded as the phone number to call them was not displayed on the screen.

If I had a chance I would have called them and my conversation would go like this.

Me “Hi I am from Bangalore, I have a question”

Gentleman from sena “Go ahead ask me”

Me “Not for you sir, for the channel and the producers of this show”

Gentleman “??”

Me “ Why do you want to air something of this irrelevance and put a man who claims himself as the moral god on the show who talk nothing to talk but bullshit?”

Gentleman “WHO DO YOU THINK YOU……………”

Note: The typos in this post was intentional. 

Another channel launched NDTV Imagine. Now this is the latest one to be launched (INX and Bindass were the recent ones).

How many more can an average TV viewer handle? We already have dozens of entertainment channels, which run Bollywood based shows and reality shows along with sitcoms.

I guess there is nothing new in entertainment channels that it’s very easy to get a channel on air,

Rent a satellite, bribe someone to get permit to air, shoot some reality shows, and …………………………………

Voila!

  Can we handle this?

I don’t believe in the horoscopes flashed on channels or on the newspaper(well I don’t believe in horoscope all together), but can’t let go of the curiosity of checking what is going to happen to my dear life. So I do check them.  

Today on Zoom I got this for my star. “You will have a good week, but with work tensions blah blah…” and “Don’t drink and drive”

WHAT???? 

I thought that was applicable to all stars. Not just mine.