Many times crimes take place in India which are captured by cameras and reported on national television. Some of them would have gone unpunished if cameras had not captured them. However it is true that many crimes take place because cameras are there to capture them. People who commit those crimes inform TV channels in…
Category: Media
Pet names and media
Recently I watched a news item on CNN. It showed presidential candidates calling one another by first names. Rudolf Giuliani said “Mitt”. There was a comment that Mitt Romney is Willard Milton Romney. He has dropped Willard from his name. Mitt stands for Milton. Media should avoid using pet names. Proper names like William, James,…
Sting operations are out of control
A recent report about a teacher of a school in Delhi luring ex-students into prostitution telecast on an unheard and not much known TV channel, led to riots, the teacher, Uma Khurana, being beaten up and destruction of cars and other property. Uma Khurana was arrested and lost her job. This report proved to be…
BMC elections
BMC election results were a shock for Congress. It refused an alliance with NCP which was ready to contest 65 seats out of 227. Priya Dutt was not consulted. Govinda was upset that his candidates were not given tickets and did not campaign. The leaders who predicted victory for Congress were proved wrong. Chhagan Bhujbal…
Thoughts on 20/1/2007
If something is offensive TV channels should not show it. Sometimes TV channels give publicity to clips they say are offensive. IBN 7 showed a clip of which it said insulted Gandhi. More people came to know about the clip. The Government of India issued a notice to IBN 7 and the channel had to apologise.
There are demands for ban of various types of films but no demand to ban a film that glorifies tax evasion, bribery and smuggling.
Use of Internet for destroying someone’s reputation should be punished.
Blind Imitation
In India sons are not named after their fathers and hence it is incorrect to call father Sr and son Jr. Bal Thackeray is not Thackeray Sr and Uddhav Thackeray is not Thackeray Jr. Similarly Feroz Khan is not Khan Sr and Fardeen Khan is not Khan Jr.
Sharmila Tagore and films
Indian Express dt. 10/9/2006 carried a news item “Censor Board for `A+’ and `X’ rating, says no to porn films”. This was about Sharmila Tagore’s interview to Karan Thapar on CNN IBN. Censor Board was for `A+’ or `X’ rating said the first paragraph. It is not clear the rating is one or there are…
Perils and profits of plagiarism
Kaavya Viswanathan plagiariased from a novel and got caught. She did not apologise or express regrets. She said it was accidental and unintentional. Her book is taken off the shelves in USA and India. But she made headlines for four days on TV and newspapers. At 19 very few achieve that. Many Indians plagiarise from…
Thoughts on 19/2/2006
UP Minister for Minority Welfare Yaqoob Qureshi should be arrested and prosecuted for announcing Rs.51 crore award for beheading of Danish editor. Giving a contract for a murder is a crime. The Governor should dismiss him immediately. Otherwise President should intervene. The first session of a year of Lok Sabha has to be addressed by…
Letter to Shailaja Bajpai
This is in reference to your column on 6/2/2006. FTV is telecast from Hong Kong. 9.30 p.m. IST is midnight at Hong Kong. I expected you to know that. Midnight hot is a good programme. I watch it. It is good that it appears it at 9.30 p.m. It is a visual delight to watch…