Catch this!
They say that Water Woes and Motormen strikes have overshadowed the Kasab Verdict. What's wrong in that? Get stuck away from home at the end of a tiring day, with the temperature and humidity levels soaring high, and any Kasab verdict would be the last thing that hits your mind.
And there the common man is strangled in a jeopardy as motormen go on a hunger strike, which cut off Mumbai's lifelines. Who is to blame? Didn't the common man already know about the warnings given out by the motormen? Ah ha! Caught you there! If you happened to switch on your idiot box to find out about this pre-warned 'strike', you'd only see one AND ONLY ONE news in the air!
'Kasab ka Hisaab', 'Kasab's Judgement day!'... Our media has a flare for overdosing particular topics to sell their shows... Be it Sania & Shoaib's wedding or Sachin's Birthday...
Oh yes, these are hot topics I must say... Who is not interested in discussing these topics? Almost every local train commuter must have once or twice discussed such topics with his neighbor during the perilous local train journey... And kasab's case could have become the most gossiped about topic too!
The only trouble was we did not have trains today... Everybody was very eager to catch their usual locals, to sit or stand or hang out with their group of daily commuters & talk about Kasab... Alas! Had they known that the Strike was going to be so severe... If at all any of the news channels had flashed atleast once that there's a possibility of these strikes reaching a high intensity level... if at all the media actually cared for something that makes a bolder impact on the lives of the common man...
Long live Freedom of Speech & Expression... Long live Free media!
