BEWARE, DEAR COMMON MAN, YOU ARE FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU WANT TO BELIEVE.

 BEWARE, DEAR COMMON MAN, YOU ARE FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU WANT TO BELIEVE.

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The discussion on TRP in various channels reminded me of the fruit sellers rubbing wax on the fruits, the sabziwala sprinkling water on the vegetables to make them appear fresh, the saag wala fitting some grass and herbs (inedible) in between the green leaves to make them appear larger. Small business small tricks, big business big tricks: THE ONLY DIFFERENCE.

(bewakoof banana is the common link).

These MBA'S and foreign university graduate, big names with a million followers on Facebook and twitter will stoop to any level to boost their TRP's. Honestly, it is not surprising, and slowly becoming acceptable too.

Everything in today's world is a commodity.

Education, health care, legal services, journalism, Tax consultancy you name it and I will tell you that all of us are chasing wealth, to horde more and more.

Legal illegal, ethical, unethical etc. is not in the purview of our moral compass anymore.

Our aim is business expansion.

None of us has a right to take the moral high ground.

Some are open on your face like Arnab, some are sly and work undercover like Rajdeep, end of the day everyone is agenda-driven and are puppets of someone high up.

Some do it in the garb of Hindutva while others do it in the guise of secularism, the motto for each one of them is profit maximisation by exploiting the needs of leaders gunning for power.

Manier times the media houses are planted by the leaders to work as their PR machinery 24/7. It sounds ok to me after watching Hollywood movies where they describe this as a STRATEGY MAKING!

The west aping crazy Indians that we are, I find it progressive and modern to walk in their trail.

It becomes evident who stands with who when you watch the news.

There isn't a single channel or an anchor who hasn't vowed his allegiance to an ideology.

Yes, there are exceptions, as we all know the one who speaks the truth, the who isn't ready to sell his soul, the one who is not willing to lick the boots, all of them shoved and forced to the periphery, He/She goes unnoticed. They end up having a mediocre career, labelled as lacklustre performers.

If you want to stay in the game, massage the right ego's, lick and clean the boots properly, give up self-respect for higher pays and promotions.

You can make it like a Rajdeep or an Arnab or a Barkha,(yes for me they all can easily fit into the same bracket) or a Ravish Kumar.

You are far more intelligent than the few names I mentioned, you haven't made it big because somewhere you were hesitating to cross a certain Lakshman Rekha which each one of you defined for yourselves.

It is people like you we should be the fans of, unfortunately, you never reach the common man, the masses.

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Some of us are under Arnab euphoria while others are under Rajdeep elation. Both the groups will now dump me into the opposite camp labelling me as an agent of the other.

We often do this to people with a differing opinion. I am ready to face the brickbats for writing this.

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Why can't we be ideology less, and objective while analysing nay person/scenario or event?

Why should we side with a Rhea or a Sushant?

Why should the journalists take a position declaring Rhea as innocent/guilty?

They get funded to take a side, then they work their charm on us, keep us engaged with various stories to make us believe that their narrative is correct.

We foolish Janata get swayed based on our past experiences, (otherwise, we are intelligent while bargaining with the small-time vegetable seller or our tailor) start taking sides by falling into the trap of prime time.

We are the pawns of a big game, We are the vote bank, We are the TRP we are the customers, but we are being treated like dirt, as brainless, as a herd, as a commodity.

LET US NOT BECOME A COMMODITY TO BE BROUGHT BY MONEY, EMOTIONS, SENSATIONALISM OR IN THE NAME OF THE GOD.

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Let us start exercising our right as sensible objective human beings.

Rhea, Kangana has motives beyond our understanding and emotions.

If we go in defence of the one, we have sold our conscience to a narrative.

Narratives will be thrust upon us every single day because there are agencies which exist for this sole purpose. To sell a viewpoint, to generate TRP's. To increase the AD Revenue, to create positive vibes in favour of a leader. They all are vultures waiting for an opportunity to make inroads into our minds.

BEWARE, DEAR COMMON MAN, YOU ARE FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU WANT TO BELIEVE.