Dr. Sambit Patra Vs Rajdeep Sardesai

Dr. Sambit Patra Vs Rajdeep Sardesai

I AM A BIG FAN OF 9 PM NEWS SHOW.

I usually settle in a cosy corner of my bed with remote locked in hands to watch the show uninterrupted.

The newsmakers create an interesting show out of any small news, and I love the way they twist and turn the facts figures and logic to suit their vested interests.

More than the content of the debate what intrigues me is the unabashed support to their respective ideologies.

You will not find a neutral and balanced outlook on any channel worldwide.

In a nutshell, I watch the news to analyse the analysts. 

The recent tiff between Sambit Patra and Rajdeep Sardesai turned from a healthy banter into an ugly spat. 

I watched the show live on the day the altercation took place between them.

Let me start by condemning Dr Patra for calling Rajdeep a Chinese agent.

It is journalists like Rajdeep who give nightmares to panellists from Pakistan and elsewhere. you have to google Rajdeep with Pervez Musharraf to see how he cornered Gen. Musharaff multiple times on Kashmir and terrorism, how elegantly he establishes India's perspective on various issues. 

Sambit Patras of the world should not be empowered to call every person who questions the government an anti-national. 

none of us has any obligation to prove anything to Dr Patra more so about our patriotism.

But at the same time in the same breath, I from my personal experience of being a Rajdeep viewer for years can infer that he sometimes gives more weightage to Gandhi's vis a vis India. Maybe the baggage of favours his wife and her father received from the Gandhi family have submerged their entire race under it.

The way we call sambit Patra as nobody, in the same way, Rahul/Priyanka too are nobody when it comes to nation. This country is about people first rest next.

I found Rajdeep wrong on two counts on the debate that evening

1. He suggested to Dr.Patra - " why doesn't Mr Modi pick up the phone and talk to Mrs Gandhi. we ask you Rajdeep Ji: "why should someone call Mrs Gandhi and placate her on national interests", why is she so important, there was an all-party meeting open for everyone to ask questions.
2. He was subtly trying to drive home the point that India failed in handling the border tensions. The underlying agenda was to declare Modi a failure. Rajdeep Your issues with Modi should be kept aside when you are talking about the nation and its security forces, In the guise of sympathy for the Braveheart’s you were settling personal scores.

I on an individual level am responsible for 10 lives at home and around 100 at work. Now, this accountability  drains the life out of me, it is so taxing that at just 44 years of age I am exhausted and dead by the end of the day.

The prime minister of this country who is 70 years old is taking care of a billion-plus population, irrational opposition, sold out communists, biased media internally and rogue neighbours on all sides.

Do we want him to come on TV every day and discuss war and international/diplomatic strategies?

And when it is a war, we either win or lose. Only one of the two outcomes are possible.

You wanted the PM to agree,  that either we were aggressive or submissive on the night of 15^th June. I feel we should leave it at their level to handle it in the best interests of the nation.

The way he is butchered and badgered over COVID crisis is acceptable but holding him accountable to what transpired on 15th June night is little amateurish.

The situation at the border is very dynamic, taking a new shape and form every other day, so people on the ground are well equipped to take important informed decisions. By questioning the altercation of that night we are directly launching an assault on the bravery, intelligence and courage of our armed forces, which is uncalled for given the lives lost.

what we can do is pat them on the back and say well done, offer our condolences and stand by the families of jawan’s who lost their lives. 

We can ask questions, but not the way it is being asked, holding the leaders at gun point on TV and making them agree to our  version. (arnab goswami is a bigger culprit on this).

Rajdeep you can say Modi has Hindutva agenda, Modi is divisive, Modi is a showman, and many of us will agree to it.

 but you cannot say 2 things.....

1.  Rahul Gandhi will make a better prime minister
2.  Prime Minister Modi sold his nation to the neighbours or he is coward/timid/brainless etc. 

We can never accept Rahul Gandhi or his unworthy sibling as the prime ministerial candidate. 

If that is the ploy and strategy of the congress and if that is what you believe is right for the nation then, believe me,

 WE WANT MODI SARKAR FOREVER or a GADKARI SARKAR or even a SMRITI IRANI SARKAR FOREVER too is acceptable but not Rahul Gandhi who has failed us a billion times.

Liberal/sickular media is in a bigger fix than the Gandhi family or the congress party.

Many in the congress have accepted that Rahul Gandhi is an incompetent leader and there isn't any steam left in the party, so those who can find better avenues are migrating and the old guard decided to die as Sonia loyalists. 

Is congress attracting new minds, young college leaders into its party, the answer is a big NO and that itself speaks for congress and its leadership.

But a section of media is not able to make peace with the fact that raga will never be acceptable, they are using their brains overtime to devise strategies for him, to push and project him as a great leader.

I guess They have survived on the alms of congress/Gandhi for too long so now sold off even their future generation to pledge support to maybe Robert Vadras children too. 

Finally the mood of the nation is in favour of Modi Ji and they believe he will never do gaddari with his country and countrymen, so let us for now respect this and stand by him in the times of crisis.

Come October our old man will steer clear of all this to emerge a champion.

Wait and watch

पिछले कुछ दिनों से अजीब सा ही चल रहा है

पिछले कुछ दिनों से अजीब सा चल रहा है

दिन भर की  मेहनत के बाद

जब थाली सजाके टीवी चलाके खाने बैठते है

बस ब्रेकिंग न्यूज़ की भौचार होती है  

मौत की खबरें और लाशों के ढेर दिखाते  है!

पेट में भूक होती है पर

निवाला गले से नहीं उतरता

 थाली को सामने से हटाना

बहुत अजीब और नाटकीय लगता है!

न जाने कब ख़त्म होगा ये सिलसिला

पिचले कुछ दिनों से अजीब सा ही चल रहा है

दिल बहलाने के लिए 

कभी बागीचे में जंगल साफ़ कर लेती हूँ

थो कभीकुत्ते बिल्लियों को नेहला देती हूँ

फिर कहीं न कहीं से एक सखी का phone आजाता है

जिसमे सिर्फ मौत की ही बाते होती है.

उत्साह भरे लहज़े में  लाशों ही गिनती 
और मृतकों की तफ्सील की जाती है  
तबाही की ख़बरों में  इतना जाइका ढून्ढलेती है  
की विस्तार से लुफ्त उठाके विवरण  देने लगती है 

मैं बस कोई बहाना करके 
फ़ोन काट के म्यूट पे दाल देती हूँ. 

न जाने कब ख़त्म होगा ये सिलसिला

पिछले कुछ दिनों से अजीब सा ही चल रहा है

देर रात तक जागने के बाद

मुश्किल से आँख लगती है

ठीक उस पल में

 भूके भेड़ियों की तरह आक्र्रमण

करने लगते है बुरे सपने!

मानो ऐसे जैसे एक आरसे से

इस मौके का इंतज़ार कर रहे हो

(AC) की ठंढ में  पसीने से तरबतर होके कांपते हुए  उठ जाती हूँ

आँख खोलके अपनों को बिस्तर पे  करवट लेते हुए देख

 ये तस्सल्ली हो जाती  है की अब तक मेरी दुनिया मेह्फूस है

पर जिस रफ़्तार से यम धूत धरती का भ्रमण कर रहे है

लगता है मौत हम सब से बस दो गज़ की दूरी पे है

न जाने कब ख़त्म होगा ये सिलसिला

पिछले कुछ दिनों से अजीब सा ही चल रहा है

I am not optimistic, I am not pessimistic, I AM REALISTIC !

I will not blame Sushant Singh Rajput for the extreme step he took.

we do not know the battles he was fighting outside and within.

often the enemies outside of us are easier to win but the inner demons multiply faster than cancer cells.

I as a daughter, sister, parent and friend offered counselling to help fight negativity at many stages. 

but I felt the resolve to talk more about it after I encountered the same in my house

My daughter is a very sensitive, kind and a giving human being.

she faced discrimination, exploitation and envy of the company she moves in.

Many times, she came back to me and cried, mom why do they do this to me. why do they bully me for my colour, for my hair?

why are my so-called friends unhappy and taunt me when I get good marks or I win a trophy in sports. They envy me even for having pets.

Somewhere I as a mother was victimising and humiliating her for underperformance in studies, I dumped my ambitions on her and bragged about it when she couldn’t meet my expectations, this added to the deteriorating self-concept.

I realised that all these were making her very pessimistic about life and the beauty of it, she felt it is worthless to live as nobody is happy with her and no one likes her.

she felt suffocated and stifled. She said she did not derive any joy out of life. it is stress, pain and hurt everywhere. Added to this there were teenage infatuations and betrayals.

Other than parents and home there is no safe and comfortable place. 

That’s when I realised the damage we were doing to her psyche.

I started speaking to her about harsh and rude facts of life

1. There are no best friends, people evolve, the dynamics change hence two people may not feel the same for each other forever and it is perfectly ok. Not just our friends but we all change.
2. We have to get into a fight or an argument only based on our ability to battle it out, never bank on somebody’s support before you start a battle
3. Accept that the world is an unfair place in the short term but in the long run, the wrong will be exposed as everyone cannot be fooled all the time.  
4. We might be chasing something now thinking it to be the ultimate happiness of our life but tomorrow the same object may become the reason for our downfall. so be happy when you don't get something you are very passionate about
5. In this larger scheme of things at play we don’t know what is good/bad for us. 
6. Look at life as an opportunity to serve. When all the ways to keep yourselves happy see a dead-end, realise that you are born to serve and not to seek.
7. By helping someone you are leaving an obligation on the creation, do not hesitate to offer help even if the one receiving is never returning it.
8. At the same time Never go out of the way to help anyone, do not indulge in self-deprivation, it is ok to fall in love, it is ok if someone cheats on you, betrayals sometimes come as a blessing.
9. Do not make a coterie of friends and limit your interactions to them only. Don’t be a part of a lobby, it will crush your individuality and your identity. Meet many people, listen to them, understand perspectives. Read, write, make opinions destroy them make newer ones, don’t be rigid, don’t have a fixed ideology, let everything evolve.  
10. It is better to fail than to be a bootlicker. If you deserve something, not even gods have the power to stop it from coming to you. What you think is good for you is not always good. Let things slip away. The job of Failure is to facilitate something big coming your way.
11. Do not submerge yourself under hype and expectations. “YOU CAN DO ” attitude is good but the best attitude is to be realistic. We all have limitations and strengths. Live in reality, do self-talk, allow the chaos within to settle down, be grounded in your head.
12. One of the easiest ways for your rivals to put you down is to separate you from your companions/friends/teammates “DIVIDE AND RULE”, but if you invested in people and relations, believe me, no one will leave your side. 
13. The second easiest way to put down a lady is “CHARACTER ASSASSINATION”. I have seen this happening with every second lady, if you cannot defeat her malign her, she will retreat. Do not fall to this ploy ever. The more they will try to put you down, stand your ground. Your resilience and strength will weaken them from within.

Dear Sushant

You were mistaken if you thought Karan Johar, Alia Bhatt nexus/lobby/coterie existed only in Bollywood. 

A Karan Johar/Alia Bhatt clone is running an unholy lobby of bootlickers in every big and small organisation.

The undeserving move up the ladder because

 they have learnt very early in life 

to play sidekicks, surrender their self-esteem, give up every trace of self-pride and ego for petty gains.

There are politics at every place where there is an assembly of more than 2 men.

Amidst all this, all you were required to do was work hard, remain focussed on your goals.

Online streaming channels were bringing a death knell to the big stars and big project from huge production houses.

Post covid19 era, there is no space for mega movies, even the megastars will vie for a space on the small screen.

you should have stayed back to see the Tamesha unfold.

This was your time to make a foray into the drawing rooms through web series.

Karan johar's and big khans of the world are going to be buried under their stardom in the days to come.

That vile fellow hosting nasty shows, making a mockery of others over coffee, giggling, gossiping and calculatedly creating questionnaires to put down others did not deserve the sacrifice you made. 

Creation was going to show him his true place in the days to come. Imagine the kind of legacy he will leave behind for his children; do you think a person can thrive on wealth alone.

Sushant You got buried under the hype you created around yourself as a star of 70 mm, built false expectations around yourself.

You know we all go through these suicidal phases, but what stops us is our loved ones, our dependants, as our life doesn’t belong just to us but to everyone associated with us, it is selfish to give up. It is ok to take a step back reassess the situation and start all over again.

It is NOT EASY to kill oneself and I am sure it all happened in a moment of weakness, see how the world has moved ON whereas you left behind infinite grief for your father. He will not be a normal person anymore. you should have lit his pyre and not vice versa.

It is a choice you made, a decision you took and as the audience of your cinema, all we can do is respect it.

Rest in peace Sushant, I hope you landed in a better place, but if you can manage, then do come into the dreams of people who are going through a similar phase to give them some courage to fight it out and not give up.