Pesudo Journalism and its by-products!

You know how they find French or Greek people more desirable? Yeah, I don't get that. French people with thick accent is supposed to be sexy but Asians with the same nuance are not, I wonder why? Is it the skin type? We are black, brown and/or yellow and they are, well, pigmentally challenged??? Nah, it's not a spiteful post on my blog. It just amuses me how people across the world react to the same phenomenon very differently when I have difficulty deciding who's sexier, Amitabh Bachchan or Robert De Niro! 

We need to learn how to be secular from Brangelina couple. They adopted kids from all around the world and the entire family manages to be on page 3 for one or the other reason. Whether her mastectomy or diversified adoptions, it's news to one and all. I wonder how the faces of those women, who have actually survived cancer and lost their assets, look like. Do they look like Jolie? But publicity is not limited to western celebrities. You remember our lady, who's not a celebrity but became one since she ran without a tampon and created awareness around it ???? What's all that about? 

She says it's a taboo in India, so she ran without a tampon to nullify the stigma. I don't understand how? And where's the cause? There were people who worked their ass off to ace the marathon but unfortunately all it required was, the absence of a tampon and she stole the show in a race against sweat breaking work out and practice. Since my husband is into running, I have a fair idea how much effort goes into that. His running buddies and him work all year long to achieve their target but tampon was never one of the criteria to be met till that day!

There's so much furore created by pseudo journalism that it makes me wonder, whether racism, bad publicity, intolerance and the likes are just the by-products of it. Even in India, we have so many conflicting views and so much hatred towards each other that 'unity and diversity' sounds like a mockery. Democracy has never been a laughing stock before I guess. I pity the Russians who thought otherwise but the grass is always greener on the other side fellas! 

One good thing is, the diversity we showcase to other people, may be the reason as to why we don't have a national language at all (people who keep imposing that Hindi is our national language Refer the article from The Hindu here and Wikipedia Info) but 22 officially recognized languages (Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, English). If you pull out an Indian Rupee, you will see the alphabetical listing of all 22 languages and I'm sure it was done as a sign of equality to one and all belonging to different parts of India. That's another way to unite India besides cricket!

Sports, Food, Movies, Music and so on. If we have the right lens, the world becomes a better place for us and our children. We don't need the cheap 3D glasses handed over to us by media and power hungry people. Let's reason it out and unite people. 

Unite India, Unite Nations, Unite people from all over the world and say yes to right kind of journalism and a better attitude in life!