jahan na pahoonche ravi

Statuary Warning: Any resemblance with anyone living or dead is unintentional. Ravi mentioned in the title does not have any relation with my roommate Ravi Shekhar. If you want to know more about him, you can go and visit his blog ravi says.

In class 9th, for my Higher Hindi subject I had written one line in my essay on Sahitya aur Samaaj (Literature and Society). The line goes like this "Jahan naa pahoonche ravi, Vahan pahoonche kavi." For my friends like Carol let me translate it in english. "Where not even the sun-rays can reach, a poet can chart those territories." Really interesting naa...I wish my mom had made me read those poem books in those early years, then I could have proved the validity of this claim. But alas, Champak and Chacha Chaudhary took all my time.

though when I think today, this line does look to have some significance. Just need to reframe it a bit. "Jahan na pahoonche ravi, vahan pahoonche ndtv/star-news/aaj-tak ke cameraman." They can show you life from any angle, from any part of world and ofcourse at any time. Surely you would ask me to prove my it. Jab dekho tab koi naa koi term coin karna aaj ka fashion ho gaya hai. bhagwan ne muh diya hai isliye bol diye.

So let me try to put forward my theory and the evidence in its support.

Experiment No 31

Aim: To prove that "Jahan na pahoonche ravi, vahan pahoonche ndtv/star-news/aaj-tak ke cameraman."

Required components:

• One cable TV with 100 channels (don't worry I will use only two-three channels here, TV with less number of channels are found only in museums, so I dont want you to take any trouble finding it)
• Remote for the TV, with extra pair of batteries if possible.
  
• A keen eye on the things (keep aside your kids, and lock your betterhalf in the bedroom)
  
• Freeze (frostfree model preferable)
  

Preparations: Just relax and keep your mind safe in the frostfree freeze. Make sure you do it without fail. Watching news channel and using your brain at the same time can be really injurious to health (your as well your TV's). Also please make sure all the throwable things are safely locked somewhere away.

Procedure:

1. Think about any place where you don't expect cameraman to be present. It can be anything - a temple, bar, new year party in your neighborhood or even your own bathroom.
2. List down all these places.
3. Now switch on the TV, make sure settings are such that all these news channels to be monitored are stored close to each other. You don't want to press too many keys to keep shuffling between them. [adv time] TataSky has come with a facility where four news channel can be watched at one time. This is really cool feature for this experiement.
   
4. Now start watching any news channel with great eye on the places. Don't let your mind distract with the strategically placed ads. You should not miss even a single second of show.
5. Check with your list if you seen some of the places mentioned.
6. Keep repeating steps 4 and 5 till the list is exhausted.
   

Observations:

1. One cameraman is always posted in front of Sidhivinayak temple in Mumbai. Whenever any celebrity visits the temple, the news flashes on the TV screens within seconds.
2. One cameraman is recruited just to follow Aishvarya Rai. Where she goes, their network follows her. Incidently she is visiting a lot of temples/dargaahs these days. The cameraman there can do a joint report thus.
   
3. When they are showing any Ganesh Utsav celebrations, try and concentrate. There are very high chances that you will find your kids playing close the stage. Arre its surely your mohalle's pooja stage. See you never knew your mohalla was so famous.
   
4. If Jessical Lal case had happened in todays times, the case would not have taken 5 years to solve. There would have been cameraman inside that pub, trying to take pictures of Rakhi and Mika, and most probably they would have shoot the video of her getting murdered.
5. Did you miss any episode of Big Boss or Nach Baliye. Dont worry. There is a solution. No I am not talking about highly geeky windows xp media center pc. I am talking about news channels. Get all the news about your favorite game shows on them, every evening without fail. Its not far when we can have live commentries on TV and radio for the same.
   
6. Remember Atul Bedade (arre vahi sixer expert from mumbai team, I know you wont remember), these people actually found him and over night he became a cricket expert, giving gyan to Ganguly and commenting about Sachin's style. He and many more such talents (Nikhil Chopra, Saba Karim etc) could only be traced only coz of these TV channel news reporters. So if anyone is missing from your locality, you can give this trick a shot. Portray him as some cricket expert and then this cameraman/channelwalas will find him/her for you. See so simple.
   
7. Anyone wants to know what is Ramdev Baba upto these days. Check aajtak and you will get update about his daily routine. Each and every statement of his makes flashing news on the prime time.
   

These and many more. The list goes on. Sometimes to things which I can not even mention at this family entertainment place. I hope I have enough evidence to prove my statement. If not, give me a day or two. May be they will broadcast a story from my wc.

Result: Hence Proved. [We always did it in college to end the experiment. Though by this time we would have surely forgotten what we were trying to prove]