News that I have blocked

Some news items get such extensive and non deserving media coverage, that seeing a mention of them anywhere automatically switches off my mind towards them. Here are 4 such news items currently in circulation that I have learned to ignore.

The Ambani War

The country is facing a severe drought, price rise in value of basic items, a difficult GDP target to achieve and in midst all this we have a multi billionaire brother who wants to earn more billions than his richer multi billionaire brother. And we also have daily ads by Anil Ambani launching a scathing attack on his brother, Mukesh Ambani and the government, and we have editorials and talk shows about the war. Do I care? The earlier public war between the two split the company and made the brothers a few notches richer and now there is another war to go a few notches higher. It has absolutely nothing for you except if you have invested in Reliance shares and it turns me off completely.

SRK's USA treatment

I maybe a big fan of SRK but all this media frenzy is making me cringe. You go to a foreign land to celebrate India's independence because it's your biggest NRI market and you get paid in dollars for it. So, you have to obey the laws of the country, good or bad. If you think USA has no business treating other communities the way it does, please stop going there or else accept that there are greater pleasures involved. More than SRK, the media needs to understand that and stop analyzing inane news.

Economic revival and not so revival

One day we have the newspapers reporting revival because the industry results are good. Second day, the not so good unemployment data is out and markets tank. One day you have news about major economies coming out of recession, next day you read about China's poor economic data and Sensex plunges. Until I get a job in Melbourne or any of my friends who have lost their jobs in India, get a job, this see-saw of recovery has no meaning for me.

Jinnah politics

As if digging the grave of dead Indian leaders was not enough, that our politicians have taken interest in their Pakistani counterparts now. How can a party lead a democratic nation, if there is no democracy within the party? Does a common man on street really care about BJP expelling or retaining their leaders who have an opinion on Jinnah? Only BJP, other political parties and media seems to care about them.