Originally posted by: -purnima-
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-fictions-of-life/890480/
If they say "Life OK", why is Anna Hazare planning to fast for a third time this year and asking us to "jail bharo" before 2011 is out? Life is clearly not OK. Ask the women on the new channel by this name: one has been shot (perhaps dead), another has her feet singed by a loving husband while a third is mistreated by her in-laws for loving a child. Not okay
Life is anything but OK, these days. Take Rajeev Khandelwal. He's wears an expression as black as the colour of his bandhgala jacket.
He has every reason to be grave: in this chilly season, he's caught Anna's germs and developed an allergy to corruption.
He's launched an all-out attack against bhrashtachaar on a new season of Sach ka Saamna (Life OK). Thus, participant Mujahid Hussain, a lawyer-cum-politician finds himself asked questions such as: "Have you given bribes?", "Have you taken bribes from clients?", "Have you bribed a judge?", "Did you ever strike a deal?" His answer to all these questions is a firm "yes". He's won about Rs 10 lakh on the show, for admitting to dishonesty. Isn't it ironic that Sach Ka Saamna is paying people to proclaim their lying and cheating on national television? Or is that a small price to pay for their exposure?
Will this new TV campaign against corruption be successful? If those who appear on the show do not go back to their criminal ways, it might.
Hey, do you think we could include the idea of paying people to be honest as a clause in the Lokpal Bill, otherwise Khandelwal will begin an indefinite hunger strike on his show?
It might have been a great public relations idea to put Khandelwal in the hot seat in the first place, so that before he began to play TV's Anna H, he had confessed to all his "sins"' always supposing he had committed any.
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