Barkha Spare Me.........

Just as an adulation starved star struggling to come to terms with the sun setting on his stardom, bid adieu to life, the press went in overdrive revving up un-foreseen nostalgia on television prime time, with chat shows hosted in admiration and honor of the dead actor.  I wish that the poor fellow who longed for this attention while he lived, should have had at least 2 more days of life, to experience that what he longed for - when it did finally fall his way.

What is interesting is that the media specially the supposedly suave English Media went ga- ga over the passing away of the star. It took this as an opportunity to revive the faded stardom, and of course in turn to resurrect its own TRPs.

The media is going berserk these days. I won’t mind living with Gabbar till  someone can save me the trauma that Barkha subjects me to through her high pitch anchored programs. Barkha Datta gets on my nerves. Yesterday, she took a harrowingly long program on Major ……  Muslim (who is clearly not a terrorist), who apparently faced racial slur from an airline.

We all face discrimination and all the time. We call it discrimination, but it is profiling. We call it profiling, but it is actually generalization. We call it generalization, but it is just human quest to seek patterns, and patterns that help us cope with or simplify complexity, and when you try to do this you generalize, and when you generalize, those who don’t fall in that general pattern will always feel persecuted, and that is what happens with some well meaning muslims. Brahmins may discriminate against others, hindus against Sikhs, whites against blacks, the black dominated government in S Africa against whites, the English against French, the latter against Germans.

I am sure, if you give 5 different ethnicity names to a group of muslims and ask to choose a name that could possibly be a terrorist, with a handsome reward for the correct answer, a majority from them would choose the muslim name. Not because they hate muslims, but because, they are humans and their brain also is continuously looking for patterns in behavior.

Again, if there is group of people, and from among them, you have to choose the Indian, then perhaps the one with brown skin will be chosen as Indian, which may not always be right, but that is how, in lack of prior knowledge, a person reacts.

Hear ten voices, and the ones high in pitch, will perhaps be the womans’, and would you call it profiling. What is the probability that a car reverse parked after many attempts was driven by a woman? High, is it not. Which does not mean there aren’t good women drivers. How can you deny, Islam is more aggressive than Christianity or Buddhism or Hinduism.

Why do then Barkha and her likes create a ruckus about issues of the army major type.

Can some one save me from her??