Reality shows in India a drama

Reality shows are the one thing which irritates many people in India. But there are even fools in this world that follows these shows. It’s so disgusting to watch children’s Little teary-eyed children between the ages of 8 to 12 narrating how they come from homes where they are the sole breadwinners and would rather join the army than be chefs, or how their father’s body caught fire, or how they help their mother make 100 dabbas a day – all interspersed with copious crying.

Yes you are right I am talking about Junior Master Chef India. What can we more expect from an Indian reality show, it’s all about drama and less professionalism. I remember Junior Master Chef of Australia which was telecasted in India last year. The lovely show was full of Professionalism. The spirit of competition was kept to a minimum, the children were stupendously talented and the entire series had an air of celebration about it.

this is India where drama, pathos and tragedy mark every reality show. The Indian version has three judges – who go by their first names like Hindi film villains of yore – Chef Jolly, Chef Vikas and Chef Kunal. Even if the judges didn’t have the requisite IQ or EQ to shut up and mollify the children, or change the subject when the child is close to tears, why did the producers and director of the show feel it necessary to broadcast and highlight footage of children crying? Are eyeballs and TRPs really that important, that you’re willing to emotionally exploit a child and milk the tear-jerker moment to its voyeuristic max?

The one reality I would like to tell you that, Do you remember the kid who was encyclopedia of Master Chef India and his mom in a LBD. Who played his mom is a 24 year old media professional who does occasionally acting, her name is Anisha Sagar.

Reality shows should be given new name of Fake shows  

traditional music in festival back again

Mumbai reverberated all night to the beating of drums, cymbals and dancing as nearly 200,000 big and small idols of Lord Ganesh were brought in trucks, tempos, cars, two-wheelers or carried on heads, to public pandals or private homes at the start of the 10-day Ganesh utsav festival here Monday. The night was punctuated by cries of welcome Ganpati Bappa Morya and singing of the favourite bhajan, Sukh-karta Dukh-harta and other aarti by millions of devotees amidst fireworks, as the elephant-headed god was welcomed in Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra on his annual sojourn.

We always talk about the noise pollution during ganesh ustav and the negative aspect of the festival. But people have became more aware about it and focusing on how they will bring back traditional music and spread awareness among the crowd to no using DJ.

Traditional music is taking a place in our festivals from few years. Every festive occasion is accompanied by song, music and dance in Maharashtra the culture of traditional music is back today. Talking about the music of Maharashtra won't complete without the mention of Natya Sangeet, numerous folk songs and its great saint poets.

Traditional music reflects many issues from our society. It also helps our new generation to get connected with their culture. Balkrishna Mitra Mandal of Ghatkopar has been following this culture of traditional music from last 5 years.   The decision of playing traditional music with low sound and ambiance was taken because of many complaints and issues. Though it started with a negative argument but later on people understood the seriousness’ of the issues and supported the people.

People gather in pandal for few hours, we preach spiritual, devotional, social and national message with the help of music. There are many forms of devotional music such as Gawlan, Wirani, Bharud, Owi, Panchapadi etc widespread in Maharashtra. The devotion music of Maharashtra covers a wide range of genres from folk music to art music. The devotional music of Maharashtra should be passed to other generation is the main aim of every mandal.

Right to reject

Election is on their way with BJP at its high point, Thanks to Modi; Rahul Gandhi is trying his best to criticize BJP as well as congress. Though elections are on long run but the assumptions are done on. Many times common people have a doubt that there casting to votes are misused. But with the recent decision given by Supreme Court has spread a positive energy in common people’s life and a shock for Political party. Though Nanrendra Modi support the decision of Supreme Court.

Two, the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, already gives Indians the right to not vote for any candidate, through Section 49 (O). Under this section, used by a minuscule number of well-informed voters, voters can have their finger inked, and then tell the presiding officer that he/she does not wish to vote for any of the candidates and this is then recorded in a register. This implies that a voter declares openly that he is rejecting the candidates. The SC decision provides to citizens the right to a secret ballot even while exercising his right to reject all the candidates.

Right to reject is also followed by many countries such as Greece, Spain, and Colombia. Russia had an option but abolished it in 2006. Pakistan introduced the option in 2013 but later the Election Commission of Pakistan rejected right of reject option. Pressure on political parties to field meritorious candidates is always welcome, but merely introducing the right to reject would hardly suffice on its own. If the number of those who select the none of the above option exceeds the number of those who voted for any candidate, a candidate with a minor fraction of votes polled could still emerge victorious. An amendment in law would be required.

Racism Still on

A decade has been passed the discussion is still on racism. Though people says that they are against racism but the recent controversy related to Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri reflects that still there is racism in our world. Nina Davuluri   the first Asian American Miss New York, has been crowned 2014′s Miss America,  Davuluri, the daughter of an Indian American OB/GYN, Davuluri performed a classical Bollywood dance during the pageant’s talent segment, underscoring her Desi roots. Sadly, this only served to further enraged xenophobes and racists on social media, who all-too-expectedly unleashed a flood of ignorance on Twitter the instant the tiara touched Davuluri’s head. Some commenter’s, like Buckeye Elizabeth, chose to attack Davuluri for being Muslim, despite the fact that she is the daughter of Hindu immigrants from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

The new Miss America was confronted with a challenging question during the poise portion of the competition when Judge Carla Hall (of ABC’s “The Chew”) asked her to reflect on the revelation by Julie Chen, of her decision to have plastic surgery to look “less Asian.” Davuluri’s answer: She’s against it. But in her response, she also managed to drop a pointed remark: “I’ve always viewed Miss America as the girl next door. And Miss America is always evolving.” Some mentioned ties to al-Qaeda and at least one flat-out called her a terrorist.

And a lot of the tweets were attacks on the fact that she is the first woman of Indian descent to win the pageant and wear the crown. She was referred to as "the Arab," by some and other commenter’s noted "This is America, not India." One called her "Miss 7-11."

A lot of controversy happened through social media. Many tweets were against the Miss America 2014 

Complexity of immature Deprivation

Every child has a right to grow and develop in a secure environment. However today this is not possible due to ill-treatment of child labor. There are number of factors which are responsible for child labor for example poverty, illiteracy, carelessness of parents, ignorance, and cheap labor. Children who are forced into such illegal practices are derived away from their social rights of education and schooling. People those who force them into these practices are not necessarily the outsiders. An uneducated and poor family might force the child into such unlawful act.

Child labor is not the end of misery for a poor. Further on these children are vulnerable to crime like child trafficking, abuse, illegal bondage and slavery. Child Laborers which are working with coal, chemicals and mine industries are at risk of various physical and mental injuries. It is said that if a child is working with carbon and other elements for more than five hours a day then he/she is prone to life threatening disease like asthma and bronchitis. When we talk about child labor in India, social cultural cause is one of the major reasons that draw many poor children into labor. In a country like India people are divided into untouchable and tribal community systems. Such groups of people find it hard to educate their family along with higher society because sometimes they are not allowed to sit in a classroom or even if it is allowed the caste system creates havoc in a society.

I do not know, how many rules and regulation or acts or set of laws have been passed over to curb this problem. But I will certainly say that here we need to stop and think. Think whether we can tolerate if our own child is treated with similar kind of disrespect. Never, it is indeed difficult for any parent even to imagine such atrocity for their child. So why do we let such things happen. Can’t we raise our voice? Have we become senseless? Is it extremely hard for us to hoist our opinion?  Answer to these questions will be ‘No’, but still we keep mum over the situation.

“If we can’t take it, we shall never let ensue it” this should be our motto toward the humanity.

Hookah or cigarettes guess which is less harmful

According to a new research presented at American Chemical Society hookah is less harmful then cigarettes smoking hookahs may be a better decision as compared to smoking cigarettes as they contain lesser levels of four toxic metals namely arsenic, lead, cadmium and chromium.

The difference does not just lie in the filtration process but in the composition of tobacco itself. Tobacco prepared specially for shisha was found to be less harmful, than that prepared for cigarettes. But it is difficult to compare the two since an average hookah session lasts for an hour and 200 puffs while an average cigarette lasts only 20 puffs. Any form of smoking is dangerous, and studies says that toxic metals in hookah smoke are taking the first steps toward the necessary animal and human studies that will establish a clearer picture of the relative dangers of hookah and cigarette smoking

Some of the harmful chemicals present in cigarettes are- Benzene, Formaldehyde, Arsenic, Tar, Cadmium, Chromium, Hydrogen Cyanide, Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Oxide and Ammonia.  The smoking a hookah is basically burning tobacco over coal with some fruit flavouring. When there organic compounds are burned, they release a toxic substance called, VOC (volatile organic compound) and PAH’s (polycyclic aromatic compounds) which are highly carcinogenic (cancer causing).

The bright side to the study, it found that smoking a hookah reduced the amount of nicotine, (the addictive compound in cigarette) inhaled.

Social Media a way to connect

Social Media

“Social Media” have now become a local word in India. When this word comes to my mind a sentence form i.e. “No Perfect way”

We can say that social Media is a new opportunity to connect people (and with people), the best video I remember which explain social media is Ad of Socupville ice-cream, one of the other classic example is Hippo snacks they used twitter as there medium.

Then one question comes to our mind how does Social Media work? It’s just four steps

Listen, Plan, Activate, Amply, and Manage

Other important points are what does it take to make a good movie? Answer is simple Music. We have to carefully select our Social tools, Music is the best way to gain attention for a social media Ad. If someone wants to work with social media first thing is that figuring out skills what I am good at!

Marketing knowledge is must for social media, perspective should be fast, and Blogging is the best example of Citizen Journalism Other example is of Tanisha Jewellery campaign they knew that the audience use facebook for design of the Jewellery and twitter for discount. Marketing was/ has been and will be always social media’s gaining mass, we need   Artwork that breaks the rules. It should be Entertaining

It should be Nice ad, Great music and Nice Message.