Saturday, November 8, 2008

Look back at soaps and reality tv: part 2

I seem to get sick of some of the reality shows on tv. Specially the shows on a world famous music channel MTV, theres now a new roadies show that supposed to happen which is supposed to take people to australia. But even though the previous edition of the show is over, there are still nonsense shows like the older roadies contestants talkin about their experiences and fighting over some stale matter noone even cares about. Like wtf, MTV brags about being young and a youngistan crap. Why the hell would people bother about some old creepy affair of two local people. Im getting bored over the love story between Kareena and Saif. And what great are these roadies? Huh....hell...and i wont talk about splits villa..two gays..and some girls....

The other day i watched a clip from the show dadagiri on bindas channel. The female host slaps a male contestant and then right back, the guy hits her back!! Wow! This is definitely cool!..Something i've never seen on any Indian tv channels.

But i wonder what more controversy these channels can create to raise their TRP's. Better i'm sitting in front of my computer watching whatever content i like.

Look back at soaps and reality tv: part 1

After a long time Indian channels seem to reject these old saas bahu serials. I myself was quite relieved to know that star plus had decided to get the serial kyunki....off air. Though the court case is going on, i would feel its quite a good move by the channel.

I was just sitting the other day, thinking about all the old tv serials that used to come on tv. I remember as a kid, my mom watching different serials when I wanted to watch my favorite cartoon, Scooby doo. There were many soaps like saans, daastan. It was when cable tv had come to Goa. There were some nice 1 hour episodes of short stories called rishtey which used to come zee tv. A show, very touching, stories of the common man. I used to love watching them.

I think the show that changed indian television was the emergence of Amitabh Bachchan on the small screen with his show the famous KBC. And then the reality show bandwagon started. Kicking off on channel [V], channel v popstars. this show i think was the first singing reality show that made singers. Ofcourse shows like sa re ga ma and antakshri were n air since the early 90's.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Barack Obama :The change?

Its been a long time since my last post. But its good to be back. well I'm trying to catch up hard on whats happening around the political side of the world and well theres so much happening. The big news :The new president of the United States. Not very surprising a country like India being so excited on the election of the new president. Well I heard the victory speech of Barack Obama and his idealistic views and the quote “Change has come to America,”. Yes, we see the change. Firstly, an African-American gets to top level post in the United States. Its quite a transition that I well have seen. I'm sitting at home chatting on many American internet chat rooms and in the past 2 years that is in around 2006, whenever they the Indian nationality on my profile, I often was abused racially and even booted out. But now its a change. Its stopped and people respect any person. I wonder if this is the new American approach towards humanity. But for now Mr. Obama is busy forming his team. So we will have to wait and watch on the moves that he makes on peace, security, the Iraq issue, the inflation and stock markets. The US has a strong influence on all other countries in the world in policy making. Every decision they make becomes a change maker in the globe. So we will surely know how Mr. President carries his optimistic approach ahead and live up on his "Yes we can" strategy.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Life and technology

First of all id like to thank u for opening and reading my blog. Well this being the first articles I would start of by introducing the main concept of my blog as well as the main idea of the interdependence of the two things belonging as seen in the title of my blog. Technology and life. Its obvious and has been going round and round; the stories about life being an experience, a journey in which man has to travel, a journey which has all sorts of hardships, happiness and sorrow.

I feel the best thing about human life has been the evolution of mankind. I cant imagine till today how something like electricity could be formed or even for that matter, the cars, trucks moving around. I’m basically a person who gets things in perspective in the form of science and not in terms of godly creations. I’m not an atheist. But basically its hard to believe that some supernatural power could make all the things in nature. But there’s always a contradiction. Thought; something so special that we have is so mind-boggling. How can we think? What makes us think? Answers have been given by science and it’s just ideas and unknown reasons given by religion.

But the extent to which the power to think and have a rational approach has been truly worth living for. Technology, gadgets are just ruling our planet in the present century. I myself am truly in love with these gadgets and I also plan to include some reviews on PC software’s I use later on. They hav become a part of our lives. Computer technology is become the base of it all and something interesting to see is that in this long run they’ve also become a part of a modernized lifestyle. A more free and democratic putlook has been possible through the concept of globalization. Globalization cannot take place without technology. We need them now. A network of Internet has always helped the cause. It has always risen at the occasion of peoples unity.

Thanks to those people in the earlier century, that we get so much ease in doing things that we do today. I don’t know if I could ever reach a wider audience in even reading what I want to say.

Well I’m no globalization expert and neither am I any big gadget user. But I always try and keep track of what’s happening in the world. Technology is needed for us. But let us not forget human values. Technology does help us remain united. To pass the message of love and peace. But it has the potential to destroy.

Well thank you for reading this introduction. Well all I can say is this is just the start of my blog. I would like to have your feedback in making me more aware of my writings. Keep in touch with my blog, there’s a lot to come from my side.

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