Special day celebration !!!

      Looks like Mother’s day and Father’s day commemoration is slowly getting into every family. Is this Cultural change? Is this face of the new modern era we are stepping into? I had no clue about these days when I was in my childhood. Now these days are celebrated widely across different cultures and it’s a trend gaining more and more attention. Even the most conservative society started celebrating these days and adding more emotional quotient to these events.

      So how did these events transform the current generation? Where did these events evolve? There is a big commercial viability attached to these special occasions and every shop starts selling gifts, flowers, cards etc., Schools start to edify the children to offer something special to their dad or mom by means of drawing, writing, some creative activity etc., by this way they can please the parents to some extent. Media run special programs acknowledging the occasion by ways of bringing celebrities and making them dedicate gifts/songs to their parents. Restaurants do some brisk business and seats gets reserved pretty quickly. Every one seems to catch on the mood by being bit ingenious and touching the emotional quotient.

     The problem I have is looks like I am the odd man out; I am afraid that I will either be forced to celebrate these events or I will at least be obligated to commemorate these days. When everyone surrounding you celebrates I am not sure how am I to escape from these modern day fantasies. I personally feel these are unwanted and don’t see any reason to celebrate these days as a special occasion.  We slowly imbibe this culture to the next generation and then it becomes a custom practice within our tradition. The more I think the more I get confused J

Modern Day Hypocrites!!!!

      I was watching an awards function and the channel has always been one of my favorites due to its creativity and the way they package their programs. Their awards function is becoming more and more popular which was pretty perceptible from the number of sponsors that was read out. Awards functions are always with lots of glitz and glamour and it attracts lots of celebrities naturally. Channel was very vigilant is choosing jury members and they change the members every year just to make sure the integrity is not questioned. Channel also does a good job in spotting good talents and recognizing them in a big stage and hence persuade budding talents and make the general public aware of such talents.

      Because I like the channel very much I am prompted to question them on what basis did they give the coveted Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan award to SRK and not to some of the legends in the state like MSV, Raja sir, Manorama achi, Janaki madam etc., There definitely got to be a protocol in choosing the recipient of this award; Can the Channel publish that to public? Who decides the recipient? Does Glamour and popularity play a role in choosing the recipient? Does Box office results alone good enough? The Channel got to respect the intelligence of the audience and should not test them.

     The anchor is stalwart on public stage and who can talk on any topic embarrassed many by asking the audience to give a standing ovation to this north Indian figure. Why does he want to hang his brains in front of a celebrity? He talks about so many things about dignity and the way one should carry themselves by why all of a sudden this change in attitude? Is this called Hypocrisy at his best?

     Every time I see the cricket stadium full of people I wonder how responsible the cricket officials should be. This entire spot fixing scandal is taking the cricket frenzy nation for granted. Often double standards are employed and the people are been taken for granted. Can these officials be called as modern day hypocrites?