Sreesanth; Is He the Guy?
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S. Sreesanth had
undeniably inflamed my curiosity in news channels and the print media. I do not
entertain browsing much through the internet merely because it is one large sea
of fake information, well mostly. If you see a title like “Sreesanth; Is He the
Guy?” you might expect a shrewd piece of investigative journalism on the
screen, but apparently, what you find is only a below average, pathetic blog
post. I am not talking about prejudices about news heading lines here. When such
a matter is under scrutiny, as spot fixing in cricket, undoubtedly, this
question comes alive, though. Who prejudiced you and me towards headlines? Such
and such headline must be some sort of an investigation. Such and such headline
would mean the person in the news has damned himself. Who did this to our semi-hypocritical
sense of judgment?
I have the answer.
Satan.
In fact, it is time
for me to confess that I digressed from the topic and pushed you over the rails
into the chaos of “intellectual conundrum.” Let me be more practical, here. Confessions
are the best way to be practical in front of the law enforcement as well as the
social system. So I confess; I never paid much attention to the mass media. I
was, well, I am, internet savvy. Nevertheless, I kept my distance with news
channels and print media, mostly on the grounds of lack of trust and concern
for my own healthy psychological environment.
Murder.
Rape.
Murder.
Election.
Rape again, this
time, a child of three years of age.
Murder again.
No, I am not
completely out of my sanity, yet. The above-mentioned list is how
our lives ‘are governed’, if we believe in spending much of our time with mass
media. I am not playing Craig Fergusson. I swear. I am not saying the world is
much better without any of the media out there. A certain sense of normalcy
still reins my system. My disagreement springs from the fact that when I do not
want to hear bad stuff, or when I am actually depressed and want to hear some
good ‘news’, they stuff my ears with some creepy gruesome news of murder or
rape or both. Yeah, I know these are not the only bad things out there.
Being the softhearted
person, I have already proven myself to be; I would jump off from my sofa and
go to my room for some silent contemplation, whenever they switched to news
channels at home. I never had much to ‘know’. There was always the same thing,
but in different details and colours, each time.
Suddenly, one day,
Sreesanth came.
He came, I saw, and
he conquered.
I felt bad about
Sreesanth’s current situation. That very reason made me watch more and more TV.
Surveying every news channel, I made mental notes of every new turn and twist
in Sreesanth issue. Rather than spot fixing and the future of Indian cricket, I
was interested in the tragedy of the young man, a Keralite. Come on, you must
admit. See, I am not the only one here with a voyeuristic gene. Everyone likes
to peep into the neighbor’s miseries, don’t they? I am a Keralite too and that
is the allusion here.
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| Vindu Dara Singh Image Courtesy: CNN IBN |
Did you see how
Vindu Dara Singh was taken to custody, yesterday? No black face-covers like how
they took Sreesanth and other players the previous week! What does this mean?
Anyway, there is something
we all should give some attention to—handkerchiefs. Desdemona dropped it,
Sreesanth held it. Both were guilty of something (jealously, may be) and made
to suffer mortally.
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