So the moment we have been waiting (dreading) for has finally arrived. The quiet TV screens at our homes have sputtered with life since Arnab is back. The sound despite being zero is blasting throughout the house and the voice who says missed being in our living room is back. So the great nationalist, patriot, anti-corruption crusader and the ultimate anti-establishment man is back. And to be fair he started off with a bang. I will address 3 major stories which he has covered in the last 4 days.
The first story which he broke was some tapes of conversation between the RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and jailed Bihar strongman Shahabuddin. Well the tapes were pretty boring and just reinforced the fact that how Bihar is run more by influence of criminals rather than by law. All the mainstream media news channels as well as print media chose to ignore the story and confined them to inner pages of newspapers. Despite Arnab being not in good books of other media personalities this story needed to be picked up and debetd by other channels. On the other hand Arnab went on and on that how Shahbuddin is controlling the Govt. via Lalu and criminals are running the show. The debate was all black and white and focussed on how helpless Nitish Kumar, the Bihar CM is. One of the most pertinent questions which the debate failed to address was not about a criminal running the show but rather abuse of power. How a jailed politician has access to a phone? Second the report failed to highlight was that Shahabuddin demanded the SP to be controlled or reprimanded but there was no follow-up by the channel to check if actually the order was carried out? There was no sound bytes from the police (even anonymous). So the debates were loud (sic!) and very harsh on the ears and as a result the real issues were lost in the din.
The second story which I came across was the Sunanda Pushkar murder. Sunanda Pushkar was the wife of then external affairs minister of India Dr. Shashi Tharoor. It was some tapes of a reporter from now with republic (the Arnab Channel) who spoke to Sunanda before she died apparently due to natural causes. While the whole death story was murky from the start with quite a few people believing it to be murder and immense use of political butchery to keep the case least controversial. But anyways Arnab thought it to be a story worth exposing and showing us the levels of power abuse by politicians. And during the loud debate one of the funniest incidents happened. There was a guy named Rahul Eshwar who said the following words in response to a question by Arnab about why the body of Mrs Pushkar moved from room 307 to room 345 as she was in room 307 and her body was found in 345(I hope i get the details correct)? And I quote "No Arnab , She changed rooms on 16th and she died on 17th so nobody moved her ". And the mighty god responded by saying "Stop lying Rahul Eshwar. Your lie has been caught. she cchecked into room no 307 and changed rooms on 16th to room 345 and she was found dead on 17th.". And as it goes I almost died laughing. Anyways arnab thought the news to be so important that he stationed not one but 3 reporters next to Shashi Tharoor's house reporting on which car left the house or what was he wearing when he left the house turning the whole thing into a media circus.
The third story was the killing of an Indian army officer Ummer fayaz who was visiting his home for a marriage in Kashmir. And as usual the politicians got into action starting the games they play so well. one of the comments which stood out was made by Akhilesh Yadav, the ex-CM of UP where he said how come no soldier from the PM's home state is never killed? This was a highly insensitive comment and goes against the ethoes of the armed forces. When you serve in armed forces you lose all identities except your country. With that aside our Arnab decided to run a full decibel campaign against the leader and his stupid statement which warranted no coverage at all. But he is a nationalist and how dare a politician insult our soldier. Right? Wrong. He would have done a great service to ask the Govt. of the day that how come the situation has been allowed to spiral so badly out of control in Kashmir that a an off-duty soldier is kidnapped by terrorists and killed? Mind you he wasn't killed while on-duty but while home for a marriage. Sad commentary that the Kashmir valley has become so unsafe. The questions by the media should have been why the Govt. of the day is proving to be ineffectual? And going by the 'nationalist' urges of people like Arnab well the thought of unleashing the army on its own people rather the 'traitors' is the best option. Since they don't care about human rights and neither should we because we have the power and powerful are allowed to kill and in the crossfire if a few innocents are killed that is okay because what better cause to die than for your country.. Man that thought would be giving Orgasms to the nationalists in our country.
The first story which he broke was some tapes of conversation between the RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and jailed Bihar strongman Shahabuddin. Well the tapes were pretty boring and just reinforced the fact that how Bihar is run more by influence of criminals rather than by law. All the mainstream media news channels as well as print media chose to ignore the story and confined them to inner pages of newspapers. Despite Arnab being not in good books of other media personalities this story needed to be picked up and debetd by other channels. On the other hand Arnab went on and on that how Shahbuddin is controlling the Govt. via Lalu and criminals are running the show. The debate was all black and white and focussed on how helpless Nitish Kumar, the Bihar CM is. One of the most pertinent questions which the debate failed to address was not about a criminal running the show but rather abuse of power. How a jailed politician has access to a phone? Second the report failed to highlight was that Shahabuddin demanded the SP to be controlled or reprimanded but there was no follow-up by the channel to check if actually the order was carried out? There was no sound bytes from the police (even anonymous). So the debates were loud (sic!) and very harsh on the ears and as a result the real issues were lost in the din.
The second story which I came across was the Sunanda Pushkar murder. Sunanda Pushkar was the wife of then external affairs minister of India Dr. Shashi Tharoor. It was some tapes of a reporter from now with republic (the Arnab Channel) who spoke to Sunanda before she died apparently due to natural causes. While the whole death story was murky from the start with quite a few people believing it to be murder and immense use of political butchery to keep the case least controversial. But anyways Arnab thought it to be a story worth exposing and showing us the levels of power abuse by politicians. And during the loud debate one of the funniest incidents happened. There was a guy named Rahul Eshwar who said the following words in response to a question by Arnab about why the body of Mrs Pushkar moved from room 307 to room 345 as she was in room 307 and her body was found in 345(I hope i get the details correct)? And I quote "No Arnab , She changed rooms on 16th and she died on 17th so nobody moved her ". And the mighty god responded by saying "Stop lying Rahul Eshwar. Your lie has been caught. she cchecked into room no 307 and changed rooms on 16th to room 345 and she was found dead on 17th.". And as it goes I almost died laughing. Anyways arnab thought the news to be so important that he stationed not one but 3 reporters next to Shashi Tharoor's house reporting on which car left the house or what was he wearing when he left the house turning the whole thing into a media circus.
The third story was the killing of an Indian army officer Ummer fayaz who was visiting his home for a marriage in Kashmir. And as usual the politicians got into action starting the games they play so well. one of the comments which stood out was made by Akhilesh Yadav, the ex-CM of UP where he said how come no soldier from the PM's home state is never killed? This was a highly insensitive comment and goes against the ethoes of the armed forces. When you serve in armed forces you lose all identities except your country. With that aside our Arnab decided to run a full decibel campaign against the leader and his stupid statement which warranted no coverage at all. But he is a nationalist and how dare a politician insult our soldier. Right? Wrong. He would have done a great service to ask the Govt. of the day that how come the situation has been allowed to spiral so badly out of control in Kashmir that a an off-duty soldier is kidnapped by terrorists and killed? Mind you he wasn't killed while on-duty but while home for a marriage. Sad commentary that the Kashmir valley has become so unsafe. The questions by the media should have been why the Govt. of the day is proving to be ineffectual? And going by the 'nationalist' urges of people like Arnab well the thought of unleashing the army on its own people rather the 'traitors' is the best option. Since they don't care about human rights and neither should we because we have the power and powerful are allowed to kill and in the crossfire if a few innocents are killed that is okay because what better cause to die than for your country.. Man that thought would be giving Orgasms to the nationalists in our country.
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