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Stale News

Contrary to popular belief, and connotations, stale news always makes for an interesting read. Sometimes, far more interesting than current hot news.

In the past two weeks, Jinnah has hogged more limelight and print space than any other current politician. Another channel, History channel, is making a fortune out of selling the stalest news possible. Each newspaper has a column dedicated to the events of the day, 50 years ago.

Lifes biggest surprises await you, if only you could straighten up the paper in which u just ate ur bhelpuri and read its contents. Although, for reasons very dramatic,in movies, it would always contain a walk-in interview call, u will chance upon far more interesting write-ups.

If not for the very same reason, there won't be any archives anywhere in the world.

Having done the justification bit, i reproduce here, a post of mine which was written two months ago. Before u proceed, let me warn you, it's not that all stale news are interesting, some do justice to their notions!

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Perspective shift

I am waking up at 11am on a regular basis...god knws whts gonna happen to my life. And ended up watching news. The flash news was that Narendra Modi was denied a Visa to America. When i was a kid, it used to be Amrish puri, in teenage, it happened to be and happens to be Narendra Modi. So, it was a welcome news for me. And i hoped that the indians too would see the light of the day and exile him to some dark island. Sometimes i wonder and agape as to how the people of gujarat voted him back to power. I always used to wonder,is this the new face of jingoism? In the garb of religious patronism? America i felt, had slapped him on his right and left cheek.

And in the evening, i came home at 12:30 AM. Again, i wonder, god knows whts gonna happen to my life. By the time, the flash news had changed. Apart from sachin getting a raw deal, two things were of prominence. The indian government had taken strong objection to

America's denial of a visa to Narendra modi. And my immediate reaction was a WOW!

Atlast, the government had suppported BJP, although in some discrete fashion. The spirit of democracy had prevailed. the UPA said that Narendra modi was a democratically appointed representative of the people and that he must be treated with far more respect. I have always maintained that the ruling party and the opposition should compliment each other and should pat each others back when the other does good work and should cooperate with each other. In this one instance, they had acted properly. Although the BJP went a little futher,far to furthur actually, and decided to host a rally of Aatma samaan in gujarat. Cheap antiques again.

As an afternote, i reflected, have i had a perspective shift in about 12 hours? Let me clarify things.

My happy reflections in the evening were only because of the fact that the opposition and the ruling alliance had cooperated with each other. My disapproval of Narendra modi is still as much strong.

Another development was that of Sanjaydutt,salman khan,arbaaz khan holding a press conference to support the actors caught in the sting operation concerning the casting couch.

This was one instance where every stakeholder involved can be termed guilty.  Neither do i approve of the sting operation nor do i endorse the view of the cinema industry. The whole affair stinks. In times of crisis, all thieves come together to protect each other. Very Phunny,sarcastically though.

TailPiece: What is the best that could happen to India? The following four in the same order.

1)America fears a diplomatic backlash and issues visa.

2)Modi flies to america

3)India refuses to take him back.

4)Modi plays the role of "Tom Hanks" in some obscure american terminal,this time though, he is the villain of the piece.