Impressing is your job, expressing is mine.

I dont know if i am trying to sound intelligent in my writings.. I honestly never intend to. I am an artist, not an intellectual, I am more concerned about expressing myself than about being politically right. ANd i like expressing myslsef, that's y i own this blog- my own piece of land in cyberspace.
Unfortunately, some ppl recently are getting it a bit wrong. THis is my blog, my space, an outlet for how I feel about things. You can disagree wid me, beyond doubt, coz no two people think alike, certainly not when I am one of the ppl. I write what I want to... If someone has a problem with it, its their problem. put it down on your own blog, dont fill up my comment page with hatemail. (specially if u have a problem with my typos)
I have been calling some ppl peudo-intellectuals, I dont know if they are. Being an intellectual's bad enough. Its always intellectuals that cause war. Pseudo-intellectuals can be disastrous. I'd rather this world was full of hippies or kindergarten kids or artists athn intellectuals. they live in their heads and they talk out of some crappy piece of mental furniture that have been imbedded in them involuntary, they have never experience huinger, they have never lived in ahnut with no electricty, they have never been caught in war in a third world country, they have never become refugees adn lost their identitities.. tey've gronw up in plush luxuries and have a third person view of the world that will never materialise.
ANd they tend to think I am talking crap. I probably am, if i am, i will, its my freaking blog.

I sometimes don't understand how cops can get their preferences so no right. They need to crack down on bombers and militant meetings, but what do they do? They kill a nice cozy trance party in Mumbai. Apparently, they were caught with ecstasy pills. LSD and charas. And that leaves a few questions to be answered.

1. How did the ecstacy and LSD get there in the first place? How come there are so many loopholes in your own system that such narcotics can be freely carried around?
2. How come you have never broken down militants meeting but manage to screw up a harmless party? How come you aren't able to crack down on people spreading and practicing hate but manage to kill the mood for a bunch of youngsters spreading the love?
3. How come these questions are so clear in my head but they are not making sense when I write them down?
4. HOw come you have NEVER broken down on larger scale raves that happen all the time but manage to corner on this poor pub?

Nyways, the law is teh law. I have no problems with the cops, I guess they are almost matured enough to decide their own course of action. They can't be as cheap as the traffic cops in Hyderabad, the ones I buy off for twenty bucks when caught. (Whatever happened to self-esteem?) WHoever said inflation is on the rise? I can still buy my way out of a challan for 20-30 bucks.

I do have a problem with TV reporters. ANalyze this, a bunch of kids were partying and getting high on substances, all right. They got caught and are hiding their faces form the camers.
Now why are you guys trying to get a shot of their faces? What if they had not done drugs? Nothing's been proved against them. Maybe some of them just went to the party for the music. By trying to get them on camera, you are doing them serious harm.
Even if they did do drugs, you are just screwing up their chances for improving in the future. A camera shot of their face is a permanent identification proof of a 'crime' they once committed and can kill all future prospects for them. None of these people will be doing drugs twenty years down the line, when they have kids and families. It would have been an incident for them, an experience, but thanks to you and your cameras, it becomes a scar.
Now, I don't usually watch TV, not the newschannels, specially. The day they showed the end of the world two weeks back was the day I lost it; that was the day I lost every inch of any respect I had for news channels; if tragedy occurs, I log on to the internet or wait for the next day morning's paper, which I still respect. Watching News channels on TV is a sin, it is encouraging degrading practices among teh fourth estate, it is encouraging of blatant commercial sensationalism and it is a sign of bad taste. I f I had the choice, I would remove every india news channel from my set top box.
Today, I happened to be watching TV. And when these arrested kids were being taken into police vehicles, I heard the videographers hitting sarcastic insults at them "Ek toh battamizi, abhi media k saath bhi battamizi".. etc when one guy tried to push away a camera that was poking into his face. For heaven's sake, get that camera off his face, even if you do get his face, censor it on TV. Why are you afte rthat guy's life? has he harmed you? has he bombed any city in the country? has he slaughtered Christians or Muslims? No, he was partying and feeling at one with the universe.

And then I got it, the reason behind the videographers sneering at them.

A press journalist commands respect till date. You won't find press reporters coming to you and asking you "Your child has died, how do you feel about it?", you don't find press reporters filing up the entire paper with the sam enews when a kid falls into a tunnel. and Aarushi's murder case is a column in the newspaper, it does not fill up the entire page while neglecting news on inflation and the N-deal.
A TV reporter has lost every ounce of respect he once commanded. that is why TV reporters are beaten up, abused. I am not syaing they should be manhandles. I am saying if only they handled themselves a little more respectfully, it wouldn't have come to this. CLimbing a tree to take videos of Abhi-Ash wedding? Showing MPs watching a belly dancer- I mean, ok, whatever, but there are kids watching the TV, don't show the dancers shaking their boobs around. More than TV reporters, I think the News Directors need to get a life, they are the ones sending people behind all this aren't tey?
Now, TV reprters are considered so uncool that they will NEVER be invited to a trance party. NEVER. I can imagine a press journalists having a night out and letting their hair down, but not TV reporters. They are fingery b******s who will never be invited to good parties, who will never be invited to trip along and who will never get laid.
And when they see al this happening to people, they get sheer jealous. AND they sneer.
Now, if you imagined inviting a videographer to your closed group party and got him smoked up and all happy, what do you think he would do? probably have a hidden camera tucked away inside his shirt.
nyways, whatever, bottomline, TV reporters! get some degree of self-respect and hunt for news, not crap.
ANd to those channels that forecast the end of the world, I am still living, sons of bitches, don't you think you owe me an apology for disturbing me, for disturbing kids and for causing one girl to commit suicide????