SCAMA SUTRA FOR TRP HIKE!

SUNNY THOMAS

Congress is BJP, and BJP Congress, judging from the Kejri Fare! In princely times, rival Kings married from rival families to establish peace and prosperity. If Congress and BJP form a united front, we will be back to Jawaharlal Nehru’s days when the opposition was miniscule because it was almost impossible to beat a ruling party candidate. In the bargain, BJP will gain a secular image and Congress, a deeper root in Indian culture. If the twain will not meet on their own volition, Kejri will force them! 

Anna Hazare is doing a dressed rehearsal not to let Kejri steal the thunder. Election time is show biz time for political tycoons, and what better show biz than street shows and comedy shows! Jantar Mantar should be renamed Charlie Chaplin Mantar to woo more crowds and business.  

  

To assume that in a country of 1.2 billion, only one person makes all the news that deserves an hour of viewers’ time is grossing undermining the people’s intelligence and their discerning power. And to assume that the capital of the world’s malnourished nation, which is making headlines for gang rape and obscurantist’s remarks by politicians, and for schools that exist only on paper, has just one issue to address is the tyranny of the trivia that television viewers have to grin and bear.   

 

Not to be outdone, all television channels practise Scama Sutra, some judiciously and to palatable degree while the TRP-crazy go for the whole hog! Certain channels produced incriminating documents, clinching evidence, and irrefutable facts to put some VVIPs behind the bars; but they are all free birds now! But, alas, the incriminating, clinching ad irrefutable material failed judicial scrutiny. So they are after fresh villains – Suresh Kalmadi, Spectrum Raja and Ashok Chavan are discarded. Fortunately for them, there are any number of people who become rich overnight, milking the system. But Television Studios have become the ultimate refuge of these scam patriots!   

Since Barak Obama cannot be given one more Nobel Peace Prize, the committee decided to award it to Angela Merkel, indirectly, of course. The European Union is a euphemism for Angela, who controls its destiny and whose austerity is hurting the Greeks and the Portuguese to unbearable levels. Frankly, Nobel Peace has outlived its utility and global terrorism has made it anachronistic! But other Nobel endeavors significantly point to the giant leap human civilization is taking. 

 

This year’s Nobel for Physics went to scientists for path-breaking experiments in quantum system, the very foundation of the digital world. Said the wag if you are not confused reading quantum physics, you haven’t understood it. The quest for eternal youth and anti-aging gets highlighted in studies in G-protein, which won two scientists Nobel in Chemistry. Reprogramming cells seems the ultimate in medicine today, for which two won Nobel. Game-theory-applied market design won two professors Economics Nobel. The Nobel in Literature gets widely talked about, especially in the absence of a credible candidate for Nobel Peace Prize, and the Chinese author Mo Yan’s hallucinatory realism has caught on the imagination of the world.  

A playboy sitting in the cockpit can be too dangerous for the passengers. But this time around, it was the life of his employees that he has put at risk – the entire staff of Kingfisher Airlines, not paid salaries for six months!