As the first blog entry got exhausted. My second book |
There is a pandemic at hand. People are dying all over the world in lakhs. The nations economy is in the pits. China is threatening on your door and all that the media has time to report is the death of a Bollywood actor who is no way is connected to most of us. COVID IS .... CHINESE THREAT IS.... ECONOMIC TURMOIL affects us but all one hears from morning to evening is the death of one Bollywood star. Loss of any human life is sad and I am sorry a young man had to lose his life and in the same breath I am equally pained when farmers commit suicide, when a young girl commits suicide because her father can’t afford a Smart Phone to study and many other school kids like her. How come that did not find media space like this case ? Is a poor man’s daughters life less important than that of a Bollywood actor? If the same empathy and interest had been shown in numerous rape cases many unfortunate girls would have got justice. But they don’t buy TRP like this does and most important is educated people in 21 Century believing in hocus-pocus and Black Magic. What level of intellectual bankruptcy have we become prey to. All these high sounding degrees that we flash around is total Bad if all our entire media space is dictated by one death of a Bollywood actor? Sickening.. |