I really admire this Arnab
Goswami fellow and his channel... allow me to explain why.
I was having trouble being myself tonight - and I knew sleep would elude me at bedtime. Today was one of those days when life’s responses seemed to have been designed to stack up against my mood. All and sundry were against me. Office was bad. Travels were filled with traffic. And when I reached home, the entire family seemed anti-me. Everyone at home seemed to be shouting. I had to hide behind the closed doors of my study.
Then respite came in the form of of dinner-time and I got temporary control of the remote. I went straight for republic channel and right into the much touted Arnab Goswami debate.
Boy ... what noise, what commotion, even screeching garnished with a dash of bellowing … everyone was shouting at each other while Arnab playing with the volume levels of guests to make a certain faction seem louder.
In Arnab's channel, there is no truth or canard ... either you are with Arnab (your mic gets a louder volume) or he is lock stock and barrel against you. Your volume is reduced... and you are at the butt end of his judgement. I could endure fifteen minutes of incessant perplexity interluded by Arnab’s decrees - designed in a way that only his judgements are deciphered while rest of the show remains obfuscated in an addle of sheer cacophony !!
Finally, my dinner was over. My family had long left the living room. I now switched off the TV.
SILENCE. At last !!!
My life seemed so very peaceful. My family's noise from the other room was now dulcet tunes to my ears. I had found my peace with the world again.
I can go off to sleep!!
Thanks to Arnab's (whichever channel he uses).
Here's my mantra: Whenever sleepless and depressed, switch on the Arnab-debate for 15-20 minutes. Once this is switched off, you will realise there is so much peace in the real world - and your life will be back on track!!!
Zzzzzzzz !!
(Image link from mid-day ... the only image depicting Arnab in his debating avatar)
I was having trouble being myself tonight - and I knew sleep would elude me at bedtime. Today was one of those days when life’s responses seemed to have been designed to stack up against my mood. All and sundry were against me. Office was bad. Travels were filled with traffic. And when I reached home, the entire family seemed anti-me. Everyone at home seemed to be shouting. I had to hide behind the closed doors of my study.
Then respite came in the form of of dinner-time and I got temporary control of the remote. I went straight for republic channel and right into the much touted Arnab Goswami debate.
Boy ... what noise, what commotion, even screeching garnished with a dash of bellowing … everyone was shouting at each other while Arnab playing with the volume levels of guests to make a certain faction seem louder.
In Arnab's channel, there is no truth or canard ... either you are with Arnab (your mic gets a louder volume) or he is lock stock and barrel against you. Your volume is reduced... and you are at the butt end of his judgement. I could endure fifteen minutes of incessant perplexity interluded by Arnab’s decrees - designed in a way that only his judgements are deciphered while rest of the show remains obfuscated in an addle of sheer cacophony !!
Finally, my dinner was over. My family had long left the living room. I now switched off the TV.
SILENCE. At last !!!
My life seemed so very peaceful. My family's noise from the other room was now dulcet tunes to my ears. I had found my peace with the world again.
I can go off to sleep!!
Thanks to Arnab's (whichever channel he uses).
Here's my mantra: Whenever sleepless and depressed, switch on the Arnab-debate for 15-20 minutes. Once this is switched off, you will realise there is so much peace in the real world - and your life will be back on track!!!
Zzzzzzzz !!
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