Barking blogs seldom write facts

1. The 'face of 4G' chirpy girl all over TV channels - does she think she is luckier than Abhijeet Sawant? She's so happy, so shiny, so all over India (covered Himalayas, Lakes, Forests for the sake of 4G technology, brave girl!). Don't feel depressed honey, 10Y down the line. You probably don't have a lot of airtime left!

Bihar elections turned utmost important - the icons of Indian media lost sleep to run its pre-poll and post-poll analyses. Bihar has traditionally been considered major during elections, but minor in any social or economic context. This time around, the number game aroused enormous excitement – way bigger for any state election campaign. Let’s see what our media fed us in the run-up to this extravaganza.

Handling uneasy questions on a hapless day could be another high risk, high reward job among political parties like stock market trading. With the media losing sleep to reveal truth over any controversy, the skill of being the face of the party on a bad day is becoming so precious that there may be a reality show to showcase such a talent or even a grooming course for the new aspirants.

A new friend named 'Firstpost' is giving me company for the past 1M or so. Historically my friendship sagas are short-lived barring a few odd instances. Let me thank the team for some of their solid work that caught my notice in last 1W before things get murky!

 A few suicides that caught media glare last 3 months: Congress VP, Rahul Gandhi, visited the family of a debt-ridden farmer in Punjab who committed suicide after losing crops due to unseasonal rain. [ June '15 ]   J Jayalalitha was sentenced in a case of DA in September '14. She was subsequently acquitted and re-throned as the CM. AIADMK announced that it has disbursed Rs. ~7Cr to the families of 244 persons who ended their lives at the news of her sentence. [ May '15 ] In September '14, there were reports of at least 16 suicides within first 2 days of her conviction. < suicides-JJ-sentence >   A farmer from Rajasthan committed suicide at a AAP rally in the presence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, by hanging himself down from a tree. He had a story of debt plus damaged crops. [ April '15 ] "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide" - MK Gandhi