December 31st 2010 will mark the end of the first decade of 21st century; it is big, isn’t it? We are lucky enough to witness the changes through a century. We have seen the world changing, our own country changing and most important of all the perspective of the individuals as the citizen of India changing. A lot has been said and written about the technological growth, fast developing R&Ds in various aspects of life, medicines etc. but what is important is that we witnessed all of them happening in front of us.
The year 2010 has been special to me as well in various ways. Most of the people who know me and are reading this post might have thought one or two reasons and are smiling already. One of the most important events for me was the start of blogging. As a blogger, I understood it is quite difficult to write continuously as we tend to get drained of ideas pretty soon and has to back up our knowledge with continuous reading, thus it is a cyclic process. The best moment for my blogs was the post City of Joy as it actually increased my reader base over night. There is one thing I have always experienced that as an individual we like making fun on a lot of things, but we haven’t really learned to take a joke on ourselves. We are growing and I guess by next decade we will learn that as well. However, City of Joy actually led to the popularity of the other posts which went unnoticed earlier.
Taking on 2010 again, this year has been exceptional as far as NEWS is concerned. The year gave a lot of material to the news channels to air the BREAKING reports throughout the year. We had Sachin making the first double ton in One dayers, Sachin again making 50 test tons, Saina Nehwal winning Badminton tournaments on a regular streak, Sania marrying Shoaib, Kalmadi cashing CWG, A Raja giving away 2G spectrum for peanuts, Neera radia a proper political lobbyist, Apple becoming cheaper then onions once again, Assagne being charged for leaking out truths, Lord Ram finally getting a place to settle down, Trains schedule changing because we cannot do anything to suppress the Maoists activities at night, etc.
We complain about a lot of things, that’s human nature and we cannot change it. As per one of my great philosopher friend as an individual we love to procrastinate. We are unsatisfied and will always remain to be, if everything listed above were not there for whole year we would have found out our own reasons to be unhappy (This applies to me and my philosopher friend as well). In this modern age of communication where we have innumerable mediums of information exchange and the velocity of information travelling is very high. The faster an information travel, the quicker it distorts and the residual damage increases exponentially. I am not vouching for the fact that whatever corruption and malpractices have been reported are false, but the inferences we draw and the time frame for which we have our reaction is wrong for sure. As an audience we have a very short memory, it is like a RAM which erases every opinion and inferences the moment we have a new piece of information. I still remember when AIIMS students and staff were on strike in 2006 and the NEWS was over night replaced by Rahul Mahajan’s drug overdose case and after few days people forgot that there was any strike.
Cheers for all of us for all the good NEWS of 2010 and a little bit of introspection for all the mishaps. Whenever a corruption is reported there is a lot of buzz around it and Media goes on a spree of debates with expert panels, which is actually food for the common ma’s thought. I do not hold anything against any working class of the society, but do you really think that people from entertainment industry or advertising or corporate are qualified enough to share an unbiased opinion. On a very different context, we always blame the politicians and the political outfits for all the forgeries, scam and scandals. Do you really think they have enough brain to pull out such heists or they have a huge chain of bureaucrats, officers, lobbyists and a trail of people which are never spoken of?
To conclude I am still not supporting any parties involved in the crime neither I am being judgmental for any one of them. It is just a question to ask ourselves, are we really this stupid that we cannot see it happening around us until one day it airs on National television or overcrowd facebook and twitter.
Just hold a breath before the year ends and think a li’l.
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