Long live the Prince!
Long live the king, long live the king...
Back in the time of the erstwhile British Empire, chanting this would have in the good books of the administration. In case you were from any of the (oppressed upon) colonies, you probably could get a job in the Services itself and be looked upon as a friendly native rather than an inferior 'animal'.
Well, things have changed now.
If you were in India right now.. You must have chanted "Long live the Prince, Long live the Prince"
It was a Sunday morning, I woke up late (as usual..) and out of habitual compulsion, turned on the idiot-box whilst still rubbing my eyes and shielding my eyes from the sunlight outside...
By the time I turned on the volume of the TV, all kinds of sci-fi thoughts swept my still groggy head!
Was this somekind of an alien being...So many people around the hole...Was it a vehicle from outer-space that crashed finally justifying the word "HUFF"?...The police is everywhere..
There it was. Rather there he was... 'prince'..No rather "the prince". LIVE pictures of a six year old kid. His name was 'Prince'. Stuck in a hole 57 feet deep, eating senescent of a fruit and driking a glass of milk. Totally oblivious the 'hulla' outside, just gladly appreciating food. He was being shown eating, a camera attached to a cord and lowered (somewhat reminding me of my mother's endoscopy).
"The chief minister of the State is on his way...", said the reporter.
There I sat wondering. Why is the chief minister of the state, a mere polititian coming there? Shouldn't it be the rescuers with equipment? Polls aren't scheduled for the state in the near future... Or is the CM, a Putin(expert at things apart from politics)...Naah...
"By the way, the kid's been stuck in the hole for more than 41 hours...", said the reporter.
What about the village folk..?They are supposed to be strong and brave as compared to the city slickers.. Haven't they found a way to pull that kid out of there?? Oh, they tried but couldn't. The hole was too dangerous to disturb. Prince could get buried in...Alive!
I switched channels.. Kept pressing the buttons on my remote till I was clear of the host of national news channels, who eventually gave the viewer a 360 degree view of the location with each news camera on a different side of the site...
I watched "The Simpsons" in the evening on TV. Casually went back to the news channels to check out news about the 'Israel-Hezbollah' (why are the people of Lebanon being killed????) conflict.
No, it wasn't deja vu.. but all of them still carried the news of "Prince"..
Live feeds from the site. As i went ..."oh my God!!"... The small strip at the bottom of the screen said "prince rescued" This is at about 7pm at nite! The army was called in. they rescued Prince! (by now prince had to be called 'our Prince'. Every household was tuned in to the news all day. The older folk especially.... took more interest and prayed for his safety.)
SMS's started flowing in from friends... "the Army did a great job rescuing the kid.You should be proud! Forward this all your friends if you love your country!" ( there is a rumour that such messages are started by the cell-phone companies themselves to increase their revenue!)
So here are my questions... Why in the world did it take so long to help the poor kid...more than 50 hours since fell into the hole? Has the media really helped?Or has it just given the politicians a fresh makeover and bettered their ratings? Will people still watch saans-bahu soaps or be more interested in reality tv? Will Prince be remembered or be forgotten if people like cross-dressing policemen take hold of the camera again?
I just hope, the newspapers carry more information on the mumbai-blasts investigations and the conflict in mid-east.
Yet, i salute the little kid. For braving rough weather, the hunger, the physical pain, most of all... duniya!
Duniya meri jaan!
Back in the time of the erstwhile British Empire, chanting this would have in the good books of the administration. In case you were from any of the (oppressed upon) colonies, you probably could get a job in the Services itself and be looked upon as a friendly native rather than an inferior 'animal'.
Well, things have changed now.
If you were in India right now.. You must have chanted "Long live the Prince, Long live the Prince"
It was a Sunday morning, I woke up late (as usual..) and out of habitual compulsion, turned on the idiot-box whilst still rubbing my eyes and shielding my eyes from the sunlight outside...
By the time I turned on the volume of the TV, all kinds of sci-fi thoughts swept my still groggy head!
Was this somekind of an alien being...So many people around the hole...Was it a vehicle from outer-space that crashed finally justifying the word "HUFF"?...The police is everywhere..
There it was. Rather there he was... 'prince'..No rather "the prince". LIVE pictures of a six year old kid. His name was 'Prince'. Stuck in a hole 57 feet deep, eating senescent of a fruit and driking a glass of milk. Totally oblivious the 'hulla' outside, just gladly appreciating food. He was being shown eating, a camera attached to a cord and lowered (somewhat reminding me of my mother's endoscopy).
"The chief minister of the State is on his way...", said the reporter.
There I sat wondering. Why is the chief minister of the state, a mere polititian coming there? Shouldn't it be the rescuers with equipment? Polls aren't scheduled for the state in the near future... Or is the CM, a Putin(expert at things apart from politics)...Naah...
"By the way, the kid's been stuck in the hole for more than 41 hours...", said the reporter.
What about the village folk..?They are supposed to be strong and brave as compared to the city slickers.. Haven't they found a way to pull that kid out of there?? Oh, they tried but couldn't. The hole was too dangerous to disturb. Prince could get buried in...Alive!
I switched channels.. Kept pressing the buttons on my remote till I was clear of the host of national news channels, who eventually gave the viewer a 360 degree view of the location with each news camera on a different side of the site...
I watched "The Simpsons" in the evening on TV. Casually went back to the news channels to check out news about the 'Israel-Hezbollah' (why are the people of Lebanon being killed????) conflict.
No, it wasn't deja vu.. but all of them still carried the news of "Prince"..
Live feeds from the site. As i went ..."oh my God!!"... The small strip at the bottom of the screen said "prince rescued" This is at about 7pm at nite! The army was called in. they rescued Prince! (by now prince had to be called 'our Prince'. Every household was tuned in to the news all day. The older folk especially.... took more interest and prayed for his safety.)
SMS's started flowing in from friends... "the Army did a great job rescuing the kid.You should be proud! Forward this all your friends if you love your country!" ( there is a rumour that such messages are started by the cell-phone companies themselves to increase their revenue!)
So here are my questions... Why in the world did it take so long to help the poor kid...more than 50 hours since fell into the hole? Has the media really helped?Or has it just given the politicians a fresh makeover and bettered their ratings? Will people still watch saans-bahu soaps or be more interested in reality tv? Will Prince be remembered or be forgotten if people like cross-dressing policemen take hold of the camera again?
I just hope, the newspapers carry more information on the mumbai-blasts investigations and the conflict in mid-east.
Yet, i salute the little kid. For braving rough weather, the hunger, the physical pain, most of all... duniya!
Duniya meri jaan!
posted by bunker135 | 11:50 AM
1 Comments:
hey kiddie....
welcome to the zone ! hehe
nice start....
do keep posting regularly..
im also around...
just click pisceanne.blogspot.com to find me..
bbye and god bless
niki
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