Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label News

It happens only in India - News

Disclaimer: The posts on this series have nothing to do with a similarly named program appearing on Fox History and Entertainment. I generally do not get to watch a lot of TV in the hostel. Most of the time, the TV room is occupied by some spineless jerks good friends who like to spend their time watching the latest music videos (with more of a visual rather than an auditory remix), or some older people (read hostel workers) who like to watch nothing other than Hindi movies from the 1970s/80s, which is perhaps the stupidest era of Bollywood. And when there is a cricket match, as is now, the TV room is hijacked by cricket fans, almost the entire hostel. That coupled with the extreme peer pressure to not be labelled a hopeless nerd means that I barely get to watch my favourite programs on National Geographic or Discovery channels. I also like to watch the news sometimes. However, of late, I have been less and less impressed with the news too. I believe that there is less of news and m...