beginning anew..

Tomorrow the train will chug off for Patna, my gran ol' city...a new chapter will begin in the 'school of life'....From one corporate media house to another, I will begin life afresh...

All the exalted principles of morality fall flat in the face of consumerism...Journalism is no longer a social service, it caters to the avarice of corporates..n still the irony of journalism persists that it is a thankless profession with meagre renumerations...

I m not satisfied....I will be working on the same old shitty stuff just for satiating the 'news sense' of people by producing the same shitty stuff of 'two killed, one injured'...

So, creativity, as Mr Pinkham told us in the classroom, shud be killed...n to be brutally frank, the lil bit of creative element in me is choking..n if i stay longer in this profession, i might be branded a zombie...

Anyways, today the Naxals had called a 24-hr All India bandh...the most pertinent question here is: Do the masses support the extreme Left wing organisations? Despite the media created image of anti-Naxal feelings among the hoi-polloi, I think that the ultras are still popular among the poor. The mass base of Naxals and their staunch opposition to democracy is simply out of this world phenomenon.

They practice an internal democracy, the kind which Gandhi proposed...they want the rural economy to function properly, the root of development but hydra headed globalisation is out to strike out this root of development.

Ok, for reading the views of my other half, read thehungrytide.blogspot.com