My recent reads and finds

If you haven’t been finding posts on my blog recently, blame it on the competition! My posts have been hijacked by newspapers, magazines, websites and other blogs! I begin to write a post for my blog – and then I wonder whether this could be good enough for the TOI humour column in their edit page? I send it across and wait for them to convey their verdict – accepted or regrets? So here it is for you - i dont post my best writeups on my blog! Ok, so you have it from the horse’s mouth – all my blog-posts were “Rejects”! Or worse - some are not even contenders. So take your chances and continue to read my 'ArTicKles', if you so wish!

You may have read the ones that got published, I suppose. But If you havent, do read them right here on my blog - All the links to my published articles appear in the side bar.

Writing is my first love these days. Reading is a close second. It used to be the other way around some years ago, until I took it upon myself to focus on writing. Writing anything – any nonsanz, that is. Whatnonsanz! I decided to revive my old hobby, which had been the victim of commercial pursuits of a corporate life in the maddening megacity of Mumbai. That was when even finding time to read a good book took quite an effort and the determination to find time for it. Reading opens up your mind. Provided, of course, you are reading the right kind of books or magazines.

Ever since I began blogging, I came across many interesting blogs, websites and periodicals and books! All of you friends do know my interests – so more suggestions come forth from you, who want to share the goodies with me. One such suggestion was from my good friend, Eknaath Nagarkar, who registered my subscription for the “Freedom First” magazine. I owe a huge thanks to him for this wonderful gesture! Although I had heard about this periodical, which was founded by the legendary Minoo Masani, I had somehow managed to miss out on reading any of its issues.

“Freedom First – The Liberal Magazine”, as it styles itself, proved to be a fresh breeze blown my way, by my good friend. It is just the fodder for thinking minds of the day. It provides in-depth, researched and well-presented write-ups on subjects of current national interests (Indian) by several authors of great repute and standing in their respective subject fields. The articles are covered in all respects – a 360 degree perspective, if I may say - of the issue at hand before coming to any conclusion. The magazine also presents detailed transcripts of Panel discussions, wherein eminent scholars debate an issue in all its multifarious aspects. It is almost as if, you had been present at such an august gathering! Freedom First is unique in its style and appeal!

Another magazine that we began to subscribe to, recently, is Moneylife Magazine. Moneylife is a Personal Investment and Finance magazine, with a great emphasis on investor education and investor protection. Unlike the usual finance magazines that only keep offering advice on where your money should be invested, this magazine offers great insights into how investors should avoid being duped into lucrative offers and teaches them to evaluate options before making a decision. Sucheta Dalal, the Managing Editor of the magazine, and Debashis Basu, the Editor, both exhibit substantial pluck to debunk price manipulations in equities and other dubious scheming plans, while advocating good governance practices for corporate and government bodies. Moneylife Magazine offers a fresh perspective to readers, who are used to the run-of-the-mill publications that only churn out multi-bagger tips. Moneylife Foundation also conducts seminars and panel discussions for investor educations which are publicised in their magazine. The magazine also undertakes equity analysis and has their own recommendations, which I haven’t tested and unable to comment about, although.

In my future posts, I would cover some other such good reads – books, magazines, blogs and websites – in short, recent finds worth sharing. If you have also found a good read recently, do post about it in the comments section giving your reasons for liking it or a link to your own blogpost about it!

Encouraging Readers and IWOTY article

A website called Reader's Quotient was launched on 26th January 2010. The team announced that it needed articles not already published to be contributed for the e-zine. I was requested for sending my article to the new e-zine. I was wondering what to contribute? My whatnonsanz masquerading as humour for the gullible readers of my blog is not suitable for any other website.

So i wrote a non-humour piece which appeared on its first anniversary, 26.01.2011 in Reader's Quotient, titled "Encouraging Readership"

Do read it! If you find any good book worth recommending to school children or those just beginning to read books, please post your suggestions in the comments here.

Some time ago, this blog had featured a post on the Word Of the Year 2010. I had also proposed that Indians ought to have their own Indian Word of the Year (IWOTY)

Most of the readers suggested words related to the root word 'Scam' and its variants.
I built upon the idea to try out the humour column of TOI, which worked!

Do read this article based on this post here

This Ophi-whatever!

This morning, my daughter looked shattered. It seemed like the universe had come crashing down on her. So I asked whether it had. “It has”, she said softly, “This Ophi-whatever has changed my life forever!”, she said reading the newspaper.

“Oh nothing ever changes, don’t worry, it is Makar Sankranti, cheer up!” I said. But I couldn’t hide my curiosity about this Ophi-whatever.

Did an alien find its way to earth or was it some creature formed by evolution that would claim us homo sapiens to be the lesser mortal?

“I am no more a Virgo, Dad, I am now a Leo! How can it be? I am just the way Linda Goodman describes a typical Virgo – and wait - You are no more a Libran, which you typically are, but a Virgo, which I deeply believe, you aren’t one bit! We couldn’t change our traits overnight, could we?” she asked excitedly

“Of course, not, my dear! I am not going to change the way I think or behave whether Pluto is a planet or a meteor or a galactic mirage. I am going to write my whatnonsanz every now and then, forget all my house-hold chores, cut my nails only when someone is hurt and all that - you know, don’t you? So nothing is going to change if I am a Virgo instead of a Libran” I assured her.

“It’s not that, it’s the charasteristics!
A Libra is known for being good natured, pleasant, people loving – but hate crowds, extremely intelligent and naïve and gullible at the same time, talkative and good listeners all at the same time, obsessed with being logical and being just to one and all - so as not to tilt the scales - and insisting on being justly treated too.

While a Virgo is known for being none of this but extremely competent, powerful in top positions, and resorting to deceitful ways to protect senior positions – all that you aren’t! You couldn’t be A Virgo and be what they’ve been saying a Virgo is all about, all of a sudden now, can you?”, she stressed.

“Certainly not, dear! I will continue to be all that a Libra has been said to be, like frustatingly inconsistent – no cause to worry. Just because some astronomer gives a pink slip to a planet for some flimsy reason of not showing up on his telescope for one night or finds some new stars and galaxies with his incessant gazing obsession, it should not change our lives, should it? We are just the same as we believe we are supposed to be as, who is it…- Linda Goodman, who told us how we are supposed to be, so just relax!”, I tried.



“So we must not miss reading last line of this news item here which says some believed that the new Zodiac system applies only to those born after 2009!”

Hurray! We immediately resolved to stick to our own Sun Signs – me, a Libran not a Virgo and she, a Virgo and not a Leo!

Ok, so that is how the introduction of the 13th Zodiac Sign, Ophiuchus, which we learnt about today, became the topic of our morning discussion today.

Btw, while I read the newspaper to learn what happened, my daughter picks it up to read what will happen! She usually heads straight to the columns that tell you what the stars foretell for the day, week or year! Let me tell you, even on days when she had to leave home earlier than the newspaper vendor arrived and dropped the newspaper – and ended up as late as 10 at night – she does the same thing! “To find out what will happen today?” I ask her. To which, she replies, “There is always some part of the prediction that works out true – it is just to find out which one turned out to be spot on”.

As for me, I have never believed that the position of the celestial bodies has anything to do with what happens to me! The position of my bosses, well, maybe – on tour? Great time! Many of my friends and colleagues ask me, “did you not have a good time or a particular patch of bad time?”, to which my usual reply is “Of course, i have, but what has it got to do with whether Jupiter is in my 4th House – and by the way I don’t have 4 houses!

Well, I have been reading these columns (at times)- but only for fun!

So also my daughter, I am sure!

Bloggers' Post-Script:
1. Is this guy, Parke Kunkle, who shocked the world with the 13th Zodiac Sign, a Maharastrian by any chance?

2. Whoever named the new zodiac Ophiuchus - was it this Kunkle guy? Did he not have some pity on prospective Ophiuchusians?

My latest Perky Tweets

Q: What does a blogger do when he doesnt blog?

A: He microblogs!

Not always do you have any thing much to say! Often you have some different things to say and there is nothing common in either of what you want to say to sew it up into an article (or ArTicKle, in my case). So how do you say so many different things without writing a blog post? You tweet!

Twitter is the microblogging platform which has swept the blogging commnunity so much that most bloggers today rarely post a blog! The 140-character limit, at first, seems to be too little, but once you get the hang of it (Read: learn what those wierd acronyms and hashtags mean), you can say several different things as they come to your mind!

If you have been reading my blogposts and feel you'd do with some more whatnonsanz, in smaller doses, do follow me on Twitter!

My Twitter handle is @gopinathmm

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Just to give you a flavour of what you have missed on Twitter, here are my latest Perky Tweets.

Ok, Perkytweets, is a term coined by Blogadda, a blogger's platform for Indian bloggers, where ideas are exchanged, bloggers are interviewed, etc etc..

Read what Blogadda is upto here.


Indian Railways turnaround was B-School study, now will its near bankruptcy be C-School study C=Corruption? #perkytweets

If life gives you lemons, trade them for onions #lemontweets

Breaking News: Govt Of India announces new currency units Rs 1000 Cr. = 1 Kalmadi; Rs 10000 Cr = 1 Radia; Rs 100000 Cr = 1 Raja #perkytweets

Is Digvijay Singh competing with Vir Das, the standup comedian or Julian Assange with his Digileaks? #perkytweets
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Glad to make it to the first list in 2011! Thanks @blogadda Check out the first #perkytweets of 2011 @ http://adda.at/Perky31

Will a compendium of Scams coming soon be called "Scamayana"? #perkytweets

Special drive by banks: Onions accepted as security for loans - Offer valid till Sharad Pawar is Agriculture Minister #perkytweets

Breaking News: Tees Maar Khan team wishes to change its title to Tees "Pyaaz Maar Khan" #fakingnews #perkytweets

As Ajit Dayal writes in his column "The Honest Truth", the New EPS is Earnings per SCAM!
SRT = Still Raining Tons! #justlearnt

We had the Ice Age, the Stone Age in olden days. Today we are in WikiLeakAge #perkytweets

Transcribers and Transcription companies will be busy for a while - 5400 conversations only 23 transcribed - Radia tapes i'm talking abt!

Thanks to the scale of the 2G Scam, we can now say that other scams are of an insignificant scale - Montek Singh Ahluwalia just did!

A person with an impeccable integrity is defined as that person who has not been caught with his hand in the cookie jar #perkytweets

This year it just doesn't stop raining...................... SCAMS! #perkytweets

Rajnikant ought to change his name becoz there is nothing Rajni Kan't...mebbe to Rajni Kan? #perkytweets

TOI has done a good job of exposing corruption in reporting the #Adarsh scam. But can media leap ahead and stop the scams from taking place?

Finally an Ideal Scam for all to emulate - the #Adarsh scam! All those who helped the promoters got a flat - a truly 'inclusive' venture!

From what i hear about Hisss, the latest bollywood flick, it seems it will soon be "Hissstory" #perkytweets

Cant believe every thing the TV Channels report - especially when they themselves call them "stories"! #perkytweets

@solitalks What phobia is it when you're scared to ask?

Raavan goes to Consumer Forum to complain about the "per head" charges in buses, trains, hotels....Jaago grahak jaago! #perkytweets

Will Lalit Modi be invited to declare the CWP - Common Wealth Probe open? #perkytweets

It is amazing to watch a Milkman's son, a poor villager's daughter come into the limelight, bringing India glory by winning medals at CWG!

Cant wait to watch the #CWG Opening Cere! Cere or Ceremoney? Money has been taken away by Kalmadi already #perkytweets

Thanks 2 d HC Verdict, we know what Nirmohi Akhara is - and please tell youngsters Ramlalla Virajman isnt a Page3 personality #perkytweets

Understand India bribed 72 Commonwealth countries to bid for the CWG! And then they call us corrupt! #perkytweets

Octopus Paul now singing "Main Paul do Paul ka Maahir hoon..." #perkytweets

Octopus Paul is loving the media attention, sings, "Paul bhar ke liye koi hame pyaar kar le..jhootha hi sahi" #perkytweets

I wonder why the Sena goons are not observing #bbandh today. Isn't vandalism their prime
economic activity? #perkytweets

Do you know why politicians dont join Facebook? Becoz they are waiting for the launch of FARCEBOOK! #perkytweets

What compels our courts to deliver sentences 25 yrs on, when verdicts dont contain an iota of justice, one wonders? #justasking #perkytweets

Did RK Pachauri make a blunder by retracting his glacier melting forecast? Now mumbaikars are melting this summer #perkytweets #justasking

Hon. High Court, Supreme Court and The Hon President of India stand between Ajmal Kasab and the 72 promised virgins in jannat #perkytweets

Lalit Modi wanted to tell us all and expose every1. All of a sudden he's quiet! Did some1 buy his silence at a private auction? #justasking

Is the English word "suffer" from the Hindi "safar" as Mumbaiites experience regularly? Or the other way around? #justasking #perkytweets

Is the English word "goon" from the Hindi "goonda"? or the other way around? #justasking #perkytweets

More of my earlier #PerkyTweets in my earlier blogpost here

And if you want to read my earliest Perkytweets read it in this blogpost here.

WOTY 2010 and IWOTY 2010

Ever since 1991, when the American Dialect Society (ADS) introduced the practice of announcing the Word of the Year (WOTY) at the end of each year, several other dictionaries and language societies like the Global Language Monitor (GLM) have been inviting suggestions, holding polls to designate their WOTY.

The selected words could be a single word or a couple of words (e.g. information superhighway) or even a phrase (e.g. weapons of mass destruction). We even witnessed a date in history represented in the figures 9-11 in the Year 2001, following a disastrous terrorist attack in the US.

The ADS choices of word of the year are the following:
• 1990: bushlips (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise)
• 1991: The mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles")
• 1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")
• 1993: information superhighway
• 1994: cyber morph (to change form)
• 1995: Web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer).
• 1996: mom (as in "soccer mom").
• 1997: millennium bug.
• 1998: e- (as in "e-mail").
• 1999: Y2K.
• 2000: chad (from the 2000 Presidential Election controversy in Florida).
• 2001: 9-11
• 2002: weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
• 2003: metrosexual.
• 2004: red state, blue state, purple state (from the 2004 presidential election).
• 2005: truthiness, popularized on The Colbert Report.
• 2006: plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto).
• 2007: subprime (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment).
• 2008: bailout (a rescue by government of a failing corporation)
• 2009: tweet (a short message sent via the Twitter service)

While some of the WOTYs like information superhighway, millenium bug, Web did become a popular word in the Indian texts, albeit with a time lag due, chiefly, to the delay in ushering in the era of technological advancements in our country, the WOTY 1999, Y2K not only significantly related to Indians, but was also a source of major economic development as Indian software companies grew largely on the back of huge orders at the turn of the last century. But most of the other WOTYs have not been truly representative of the times for Indian readers, writers or bloggers, such as those in 1990, 1992, ‘96,2000, 2004, 2005 in particular.
The ADS is yet to announce the WOTY which is scheduled for the 7th Jan 2011 at Pittsburgh. Read details about its voting process here.

The Global Language Monitor (GLM)

Read the Top 10 words of 2010 by GLM here.
On Top Spot is:
1. Spillcam — The BP Spillcam instantly beamed the immensity of the Gulf Spill around the world to the dismay of environmentalists, BP’s PR staff and the President.

It is amusing to find Sarah Palin’s mix-up being accepted as a neologism and more importantly a candidate for WOTY. The unintentional coinage of “Refudiate” (Refute + Repudiate) is listed at Rank 4. And although not many of the listed words I could relate, perhaps due to lack of regional context (my euphemism for being an ignoramus), I persisted to read upto the bottom of the list and found a gem - the last listed one at Rank 10 caught my attention and won my admiration –
10 -“Simplexity” – The paradox of simplifying complex ideas in order to make them easier to understand, the process of which only adds to their complexity.
My personal vote goes to Rank 10!

The Top Phrases of 2010
1. Anger and Rage – Characterizations of the US electorate by the pundits, though closer analyses has revealed more frustration and disappointment. Also witnessed in France, Spain and Greece.

Although there is enough of this in India over the volley of scams under which citizens find themselves being buried in, the phrase doesn’t seem to be as popular. Thanks to the several cartoonists, standup comedians and humorists, we seem to be enjoying every bit of the jokes going around rather than the rage, anger, frustration or disappointment that one finds in the chosen POTY 2010. (P=Phrase).

The New Oxford American Dictionary goes for “Refudiate” as its WOTY 2010
Read the other contenders here.

The Indian Word of the Year 2010

It is in this context and with this background that one feels that an Indian Word of the Year (IWOTY) is the need of the times!

So I began with asking my friends on FB and Twitter to suggest the Word of the Year 2010. Suggestions so far recorded for consideration:
1. SCAMINDIA 2010 – This is how the year will be remembered – Nandakumar Hattangadi.
2. Tainted – This is how most of the politicians were described in 2010 – Nagesh Aroor.
3. Scam – The most used word in the year on all forms of media – Manju Joglekar and BK Chowla.
4. Spectrum Raja – Just a way to remember the Raja of all Scams and the wide spectrum of scams on offer in 2010 – Akshay Bangera
5. ScamaRaja - A new coinage for the same Raja we are talking about this year.
6. Corruption - The widely spread word and phenomenon to reckon with in 2010 -T Rajkumar
7. Munni – the winner of the Munni-Sheela debate on Twitter suggested by Vinod Sharma.

Do post your choice of the IWOTY 2010 in the comment space if you have not yet done so on my Facebook Note or Twitter appeal.
Thank you for being part of the New Wave – IWOTY!

Watch this blog for more on the IWOTY 2010!

Wishing all a Very Happy, Prosperous, Safe, Peaceful and Fulfilling New Year and a great DECADE ahead!

Ceasar's Wives, All!

The year 2010 is coming to its very end. It is that time of the year when one begins to wonder how this year has been with us. But how have these times been for us as a whole? How have our citizens fared - netizens, tweeple and the man on the street deprived of bandwidth - in our country and the world in which we live today? Have things changed? Or has nothing changed at all?

Amongst success stories for India, the successful hosting of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, which finally ended as a spectacular show and the winning streak of our cricket team this year; and the much talked about aspirations for a permanent seat at the UNSC. [Much talked by ourselves, we are told by a certain Wikileaked cable]. The continued run in the economic growth measured by our GDP is another reason to be pleased with ourselves as a nation on the move. At a time when much of the world has been struggling with their economy, this feat means in effect that India is the most happening place (next only to China), where the action really is!

From the highs of the moon-landing last year when India planted its flag on the moon and the high-pitched crescendo of the cheering for our athletes’ record-breaking performance at the CWG, we also landed low on the revelations of financial irregularities, besides nepotism in postings reportedly committed by all those associated with the Organizing Committee of the CWG. If that was not enough, what followed were reports of the Adarsh Society scam, Land allotment scams in Karnataka and the mother of all scams, the 2-G scam, followed by revelation of lobbying for the ministerial position by corporate lobbyist Niira Radia through the tapes leaked to the Indian Press. [Pardon me if i have missed any scam]

The inclusion of Army officials and judges in scam tainted has achieved in some sense our wish to have “inclusive growth” in our country – we don’t leave out any one out of the party! Finally the Radia tapes also pointed to the possible involvement of journalists in engineering ministerial berths and currying corporate favoritism. These findings were followed through by various retired editors posting blogs about their experiences about how industrialists wooed media even in their times and bribes offered and paid news is not, after all, a new phenomenon. It has been proved beyond doubt that the very media - that character assassinates suspects without so much as a fair sound-byte in defence - indulges in wrongful practices themselves!

So what is new is that we have begun talking about it – and acknowledging that it exists. The rot can’t be hidden anymore - the stench tells us about it’s existence. Gandhiji’s Teen Bunder [Bunder - Hindi, for monkey] could well be Chaar Bunder with another holding his nose to avoid the stench emanating from all around!

hey,we employed another bunder!)

A Raja is not yet questioned inspite of losing 20+ days of business in the Parliament! Even our own Prime Minister is facing charges of inaction in the telecom scam, although the PM, like Ceasar’s wife, wishes to be above the law.

So much like all of us, no? Everyone seems to want to be, or already think they are, above the law.

Everyone bears the “holier-than-thou” approach, while erroneously believing in it. The media wouldn’t have to explain their role, but for the tweeple who incessantly demanded an explanation. We don’t like being frisked, being asked questions, asked to show our identity cards or PAN cards or any such document. Anywhere anytime! “You suspect me?”, we ask scornfully. In that sense, we are all aspiring to be Ceasar’s wife!


The year is drawing to a close with food prices rising unabated - onions bringing tears without even peeling them. Petrol prices, which were de-regulated only this year, have also risen quickly. Traders seem to be enjoying the freedom offered by pricing decontrol to their full advantage. Leaving us ordinary folks struggling to beat the inflation (which could be another scam, I guess) all our lives, without indulging in scams or swindling others in our society - unless of course, you are tempted to beat the inflation by acquiring the necessary skills by joining this institute – A C-School here.

We can certainly hope that the New Year 2011 will clear the prevailing stench and bring new aspirations of belonging to a cleaner society in the world around us.

After all, hope is all that remains!

Bloggers’ Post-Script – What according to you is the Indian Word of the Year 2010? Do write in the comments space with your suggestions and why you chose that word!

The Info-Leak-Age

One could be on cloud nine after being served with dollops of praise from just about anyone, but when the offering comes from none other than the President of the United States of America, it is certain to stir the common man from his dreary stance to spring up in joyful celebration! He said we are not an emerging nation but an already emerged nation! We are not “developing” but “developed” – in substance we had already arrived, just in case we happened to miss noticing the decorated, flashy gates of the elite club of nations who lead the world of the 21st Century for having gate-crashed into the lavish dinner table.

Suddenly we felt as though we had not only arrived, but also taken our rightful place at the G-20 or UNSC or any such elite gathering. Our upbeat mood was only natural – when was the last time that our country was praised so much for having done so much for shaping the world, for giving the world such gems like the Mahatma and so many heroes, for being the largest democracy in the world or for that matter for our diverse cultures and yet for being one voice the world was dying to listen to? Can’t remember, can we?

Come to think of it, let us do an exercise – try remembering a time in your own personal life and career that one would have been praised so much for all that one is or has done for your organization or for being a great person to have known or been associated with. Chances are, that you’ve heard these words of high praise at a send-off party while leaving your organization after a long-stint for better pastures or even at retirement. That is when you hear all the words you always wanted to hear when you’ve been working hard all the time – just for that appreciation and recognition –(although nobody seems to know)!

The only other instance when one may have experienced unconstrained showering of mighty praise has been when one is contemplating a large value purchase, either for oneself or for the organization one represents. Suddenly, marketing professionals will wax eloquent about your attributes and praise you to the heavens for all that you are – and even for all that you’d hoped to be; all the skills that you have and several that you hope you had possessed! Although it is really an occasion to introspect and work on these missing attributes, human nature being what it is, leads us to believe that there is nothing for me to do, but to accept the praise in all its glory and celebrate the moment.

President Obama had his wares to sell to boost his countrymen’s job prospects - and India would have been working on its shopping list for its nuclear energy program, other clean energy initiatives and several such developmental budgets to keep the pace of GDP growth going for the coming decades. Get the drift?
High praise, like the good old spirits, is indeed intoxicating. It gets to one’s head faster than truth, which takes a longer time to sink in. We had been in a celebratory mood, albeit only until the same news channels suddenly started doling out scam after scam, making one wonder where are we heading and whether we are really getting there at all? Will the Wikileaks comment citing Hillary Clinton to have dubbed India as being “a self- appointed front-runner for the UN Security Council seat” bring our feet firmly back on terra firma? Or will we just brush the Wikileaks information aside as an apocryphal account and continue to celebrate?

Talking about leaks, we are living in times, which future generations may call as the “Info-Leakage”. Classified documents leaking into public domain is being witnessed in India too. The Nira Radia tapes found their way into blogs and media websites and shocked the scale and spread of the malaise in our political and social fabric. The flip side of the Radia Tapes leak is a host of websites got busy transcribing the conversations. The involvement of media bigwigs in the corridors of powers is being hotly debated. Although those involved are defending themselves of the allegations - of going beyond their call of duty and engaging in power-broking activities alongwith lobbyists - by explaining that they were only stringing a potential news source or humoring them for future utility, it is to many a sighting of a tip of the iceberg that one cannot afford to simply brush aside.

The media has of late assumed a larger role, sitting in judgment and trying citizens for their misdeeds in extra-judicial court-rooms having high national visibility unlike the real judiciary. In that sense it was a rare treat to find political news editors, being big names in the industry on the other side of the table defending their actions and inactions and discussing the ethics of journalism. Satish Acharya, the well-known cartoonist has been kind enough to work on this creation, working on the idea provided by me, indicating the dangers of the newsrooms in our TV channels. Collaborative blogging, we may say. Thanks, Satish Acharya!


We are witnessing a High Level of RADIA-ACTIVITY in Newsrooms!