TRP - TV Ruining Points

Hi Guys .. I don know why all my blogs are written from the same terminal even though I ve been in different places where net connection was available..

Ok let me start..

The issue which I plan to write here is about MEDIA – esp News Channels

In late nineties we had doodarshan channels telecasting news for the masses. I once thought how one can think of such a boring program called doordarshan news. It was so dull and the news was lacking punch and interest.

Later came in BBC, CNN , NDTV, Times Now etc which took news broadcast to next level. All Indian news channels like NDTV, Times Now started following the footsteps of CNN and to some extent BBC. The news channels started becoming a glitzy glam affair for the public.

In early years when I started watching BBC, I once came across the banner flashing “Breaking News” at the bottom of the screen. I don remember the news really but it was really a breaking news. But now we get Breaking News banners when News channels want to grab attention of viewers even for the most irrelevant things. The importance of “Breaking News” banner is lost totally (according to me).

The next issue is the Reporters and the coverage that is done. Reporters feel that they do the duty assigned to them. Yes they do and they over do thinking that they are doing an exceptional service. I am not accusing the entire reporter community but only some.

Reporters risk their life and venture into places where no ordinary man could even think of; hats off to them. But everything has its limits.

Case 1:

Many would be aware of the Aarushi murder case. The issue was discussed like a mega serial with new twists cropping every other day. The life of a little girl was gone. The news channel increased TRP rating in the name of creating sympathy and fighting for justice. Totally unwanted (This too “According to Me”).

Case 2:

The Dreaded H1N1 (Swine Flu) pan(dem)ic. The coverage was really important to give awareness about the disease out break. It too was an overdose creating panic among public. Psychologically many were affected and many wrong notions started to spread much faster than the disease. Then the news channels had a session of correcting the wrong notions spreading among public. Even now the cases of Swine-flu are increasing. No news about it. They create waves among the public in the starting days and then nobody will ever bother to take up that. Cameo roles are not suited for NEWS. I call this a “Blitzkrieg show” by NEWS Channels.

Case 3:

The Mumbai Terror Attacks.

The NEWS channels brought the streets of terror gripped Mumbai streets to our house. I remember seeing them awestruck till 2 am. I applauded the efforts of TV news reporters who risked their lives and brought to us the live news from Mumbai. But at one point of time I felt so insecure when they showed the security guards firing from their hide outs. It is not only the innocent and eager public who is watching these sequences, the terrorists too.

News channels showed the fighter air dropped in some region in a secret manner with “Breaking NEWS” banner. The Terrorist commanders saw this and alerted the fidayeen fighters.

They broadcasted the telephonic conversation of a minister inside the Taj Hotel in which he told his hide out and the place where many people were hiding. Who wants this news? Tell frankly who wants this news? Its needed for the rescue team and not for the public. The terrorists heard this news and advised the fidayeen fighters to go there and finish them. This resulted in more deaths. Who is responsible for their deaths here? Terrorists?

At the end the NEWS channels said that should ve been told about the limits and Security Personnel should ve made an arrangement to the NEWS channels so that they get updates periodically. Don’t they have the common sense of what to be telecasted and what not to?

TRP ratings at the cost of Human life.

Whatever I mentioned is my own views on NEWS broadcasting.

Crazy Trivandrum Aiport - To and From

Hi All..

Blog after looooooong interval. Incidentally sitting in front of the same terminal where i wrote my first blog

This is a funny experience i got when i and my fren Mohit RC had a journey to Trivandrum airport for our Flight to Chennai.

Journey to Airport via Auto from Technopark TCS

The journey started off at 1750 approx The journey was a 15km one in auto.It started raining heavily. Mohit was seated to the open end and I at the other. As a result Mohit's right side got drenched. I escaped with few rain drops.

A conversation started off between Auto driver(old guy) and Mohit in malayalam. Since the auto guy got a person who knew malayalam, he started speaking with a max of 6 sec break(I counted it :))

Poor mohit had to answer to all his one sided conversations. I felt happy that i didn know malayalam. I escaped. I and Mohit Tried to break this and we started speakng in english in between but the auto driver didn stop.

In bet ween he got calls in his mobile (Good business links it seems)
We too told each other that it would not be surprising if they had any LinkedIn Accounts for their business contacts.

Mohit commented on the driver as this is called as "Verbal Diarrhoea" at first i couldn get what he meant in auto sound. In a split second when the auto driver started talking again i got what mohit intended to say.

Finally we reached Airport

Funny Incidents in Airport

We didn have the credit card copy for the check-in which was mentioned in the required docs so we were a bit nervous (Actually i was nervous not him)

Finally we entered airport and showed ticket print out and the id proofs. The guard jus saw mohit's and didn bother to look into mine...

Then we had the Shock of the Day.

The power went off in airport. Total blackout for atleast 10 seconds.

The most worst thing to happen in an International Airport. All computer systems went off. Even they were not connected to UPS. The checkin admin told us to wait till the system rebooted.

Mohit enquired about ATM in airport. I said it wouldn be there. He told every airport would have that. But I was sure this pathetic airport wont have one. Finally Mohit got the expected "NO" from airport authorities :)

We then waited for boarding our flight there we couldn find a place to sit that too hardly 15 ppl were there :)

We planned to go upstairs to sit there we had condsiderably good space to sit but the escalators were not working.I think the UPS were not good enough to support the escalators :)

Then before boarding we went to the rest room , god it was stinking like public toilets as we see on roadsides. Too pathetic.

Finally we sat in front of the boarding exit. We saw a crowd lininig up for the exit
I first thought it would be the flight before us and not our flight as 1 min back before coming to the exit i saw the board saying a different flight. So we both sat and didn bother, then we got slght doubt and i told mohit to ask one of the persons standing there, He told its the Chennai Flight boarding queue. Immediately i went and saw the board it was changed to our flight. There were no announcements made for the change that was done.. Oh god

Then we boarded the small propellar Kingfisher Flight. There were only two propellers standing in the entire airport.

Wierdest and Funniest Things on board

We finally boarded he flight. It was just tall enough to take mohit in. If he tip toed he would ve got hit on the roof :)

We sat in our seats and fastened the seat belts. The flight captain made the most funniest announcement

He said "Welcome aboard KingFisher Flight 2883 to Trivandrum"!!!!

The flight was in trivandrum and he said its bound to Trivandrum. I thought its jus a slip of tongue. But for the second time he said the same thing again

We both looked at each other and said "Machi are we in the correct flight ?"

I told Mohit to ask the airhostess and he told me to ask that as it is the most idiotic question to be asked in a flight after boarding it and sitting our designated places :)

But we were still doubting the destination of the flight. Finally Mohit asked the Airhostess corageously for which she responded "Chennai" and giggled. Too embarassing.

Then the flight started. Noise of the propellers filled our ears till we took off

Entire flight was turbulent as the weather was bad. It was too scary to look out the propellar blades in the night effect in mid air with lights flashing on it.

Mohit got air sick dsuddenly due to turbulent movement. He was so uncomfortable. He then asked for lemon, which the airhostess said they don ve it. Too pathetic again.

Now the food, Veg biriyani was ok as i was hungry i didn mind the taste. He was so air sick that he didn have anything for sometime. He had water what they gave and told me "Macha this water is like tap water da.." I tasted it.. god even our normal tap water would be better. It was blande. Finally we had the food and waited for the landing announce ment from Captain. We reached chennai and circled around for landing permissions.

Other crazy thing which we felt that the landing was too harsh..

Finally we landed half an hour well in advance. The most happiest thing that happened that day..



Wat an experience...

Life @ 300kmph - Monaco GP

I welcome you all to my first published Blog.

A blog about - Life @ 300kmph , You guessed it right. Its about the Formula 1 Racing. Yeah its a rare formula of course.

The physical turmoils that a driver undergoes in a race

1. He is subjected to a force of 5G

G FORCE - An acceleration of 1 g is generally considered as equal to standard gravity.


2. A driver may lose nearly 4 to 5Kg after a single race.


3. Heart rate increases very rapidly to un-imaginable figures

Poor guys but the passion and will power and commitment drives them to success.

Thats the reason why i started off with this blog.

Monac0 2009

Monaco in Monte Carlos Spain is one of the oldest circuits for F1 racing.

Its the first of its kind, A normal city Street road is used for racing. Bumpy roads, Narrow lanes

with barriers on both sides. The most difficult part of the race is the adaptability of the drivers'

eye with the change in the lighting.

The race has a tunnel which is lit by normal lights. This is the only speed trap region in the race

where drivers touch their maximum speed (nearly 289kmph) and immediately after the tunnel

the drivers must see the bright broad day light which will be blindingly bright. Driver must

adapt quickly for that change.

The most striking feature of monaco race is top 12 drivers where separated just by 1 Second

during their qualifying rounds. Such a compettitive race ever seen

This years race started off brilliantly with Jenson Button(Brawn GP) at the pole position.

Kimi Raikkonen(Ferrari) was at his best of this year with Second in qualifying.

As the race started off , Jenson 's team mate Rubens Barrichello(Oldest and UNNOTICED BEST Driver in F1) immediately overtook Raikkonen for the second place.

As the race veered off , Jenson pulled stunning laps to take big lead ahead.

As usual Rubens Barrichello was considered the second driver by Brawn was at second position

Raikkonnen and his team mate Felipe Massa drove brilliantly from start to finish with stunning

lap times better than the race leader Jenson Button. Defending champion Hamilton (McLaren

Mercedes) was struggling with his poor car followed by crashing in the qualifying which pushed

him back at the starting grid. There were many crashes from the start to end.

Drivers have to drive with " inch - perfect " perfection to complete this race.

Finally Jenson Button won the race (as usual) - here is the link for results- Results

Most fantastic race ever in this calendar year. Best ever for Ferrari in 2009.

More to come for the calendar year, In F1 and my Blog

Some Pics of the Monaco Circuit