the silent scream

Monday, April 03, 2006

smoking barrels

methinks its time to post something... and when i heard this bit on aaj tak, i knew i had to post it. aaj tak is arguably india's most "entertaining" news channel. they are such unabashed rumour-mongers that there have been instances wherein they had contradicted their own reports without batting an eye much like times of india which killed yasser arafat twice without so much as an errata or an apology :)

anywayz, these guys have this edge-of-the-seat crime reporting programme called "vaardat" which is dixit's favourite as one can always count on it for a few laughs. their staple diet is violent murders and any rapes that they can lay their hands on. the "vaardat" reporters have been known to have withdrawal symptoms during weeks when the unruly indian libido had rested and refrained from molesting the gentler sex. they were almost condemning the lack of enterprise on the part of horny men.

we were watching this piece about how someone was caught in delhi for possessing an illegal weapon. yeah, the "vaardat" guys were desperate and snatching at straws. apparently no murders... still they ploughed on valiantly. excelsior... "shaks se ek videshi pistol aur kayi goliyan baramat hua" (a foreign gun and multitude of bullets [the 6 ones in the revolver] were retrieved from the person) the background voice was saying with such outrage that for a moment i was wondering if he was carrying some kind of biological weapon. dixit and i looked at each other and burst out laughing.

aaj tak are taking "rang de basanti" a bit too seriously :)
and yeah... me has taken a leaf out of their book too ;)