The world is moving on. Harry has grown from a kid with a lightning-shaped scar to an adolescent with story sounding more and more borrowed from the Bush & Party vs. Osama & Party. Mumbai and Pune are drowning in the rain...
Australia is again thrashing England at the Ashes. Salman has got in and out of yet another of his signature controversies. Mallika Sherawat is again nagging the nation with one of her "I am viagra for India" theories. Aby Baby is AGAIN offering the offer for any 'ordinary Hindustani' to become a crorepati by just answering his few simple questions.
"Lock kar diya jaaye?" says the fabled baritone... But no, right now its not the baritone ringing in my ears, but the mobile vibrating in my pocket.
Airtel seems to have taken upon itself the admittedly altruistic goal of waking every 'ordinary Hindustani' early in the morning, middle of the afternoon and late in the night with a flurry of SMSes announcing the next question to answer to get 5 minutes on Prime Time television at the 'Fastest Fingers First' round [That makes it the FFF round. 'FFF' converted from hex to decimal is '4095', which is exactly (4K - 1)... hmmm, there are better things to write about]. You know, the round where you get to wave at the camera looking like a mannequin of yourself, and then (gee, here comes the exciting part!) sit in the shadows desperately hoping that the person in the 'hot seat' gets an answer wrong.
AB (the one and only, Abhishek doesn't qualify yet; Atal is quite out of the reckoning, methinks) has also taken upon himself the task of inviting people on to the hot seat from well-lighted hoardings placed along major roads in major cities. That works pretty well, you know, his pictures luring people into KBC2 while he is out there endorsing the next unknown brand in town.
Meanwhile I hear my colleague muttering unmentionables at the next round of KBC SMSes on his mobile. Whatever happened to that PIL asking the cellphone operators to stop unsolicitated messaging? It made more noise than a Boeing at take-off, but someone forgot to land it...
3 comments:
Another good one...enjoyed reading it...
Hey Paddy...! Where have u been..? Enjoyed reading that attack on KBC..! Nice article. Looks like not much of work to do in Cal..!? :D
KIT..
- V
well well..not intending to sound like singing praises all the time..but what to do..Paddy's write - up is jus too good to miss!!!
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