Rajdeep Reveals His Ugly Character In NY

One usually goes to a place to discover and learn. We know about the place from a map. We know a bit about its people from what we have read or heard. Still, actually being there has to be an experience to see, to hear and to learn about the place and its people. But some people go with pre-conceived notions and convictions and seek “confirmation” of their own prejudices. If I go to America with the intention of finding people who hate Narendra Modi it’s not very difficult to do. We know the people who campaigned against his visits or his interactions. It’s easy to find the gang of people who hate him. With the general public it is better to seek to learn rather than provoke them with pre-conceived conclusions and convictions. Some of our media crooks were in New York for the last few days exactly for that reason: Provoke hatred for Modi or ridicule their religion. Unfortunately for them, they failed.

My thrill, my joy comes from the fact that ordinary people are a lot more open and often quite blunt with the truth than our politicians and media morons. They’re simple people with passions who are often classified by our media mafia as “bhakts”. Media criminals like Barkha Dutt and Rajdeep Sardesai hate ordinary people who are smarter than they are. They hate Indians (and Hindus) – in India or in America or anywhere in the world. Character is not built during a testing situation, it merely reveals itself. And Rajdeep Sardesai revealed which gutter he comes from right in New York during the PM’s visit.

What was the purpose of Rajdeep’s visit? Not to report on the PM’s visit or events and developments around it but to sing the same old worn out nonsense of 2002, ask silly questions about Modi’s visa and how only 31% have voted for Modi and others did not. All these issues are in the past and have been ranted over and over again by our media fools and have not gotten them anywhere. One cannot claim to be a journalist by harbouring political vindictiveness and grudges against one person; especially since that person is now the PM of India. This cheap engagement of Rajdeep was not with some panellist or politicians but ordinary people on the streets. The uncouth character of Rajdeep’s discourse with ordinary people can only be described as hate-mongering and pimping to get anti-Modi soundbites. Every person he talked to virtually slapped him and wasn’t willing to buy the nonsense being peddled by Rajdeep. Take a look at this cheap moronic tweet:

RS is not even factually correct because my tweet included the pic (on the left) of the NYT front page with a report about Modi. But is that really an issue? What kind of bickering, unhappy moron who calls himself an editor bitches about and ridicules Modi for not being on NYT’s front page? In what sense is a front-page coverage by NYT or any other US paper any kind of certification of Modi’s relevance or importance? This is mindless hatred for Modi that Rajdeep has enriched himself with and wants to continue peddling his nonsense to Indians in the US and American citizens too. Dislike for a politician should not reach such levels that a person pretending to be an editor starts vomiting filth every time he mentions the name of that person. This filth runs in the family duo of Rajdeep and Sagarika who have made their hatred and bitching a personal industry of sorts. Take a look at this tweet from the Category5Moron:

Seriously, what kind of character bitches about her former colleagues in public? It has to be an extreme low-life who does this sort of thing. It is not just that she bitches about them and ridicules them in public but does not think for a moment that she was designated a Deputy Editor at CNN-IBN and most of the people she bitches about would have been junior to her in hierarchy. You bitch about your juniors in public? This extreme hatred and bitching seems to run in all their discourse, especially where Modi is concerned. She does this here and the bigger moron takes it out on people at New York. Take a look at this video (1.24 mins)

He goes around telling people on the streets only 31% voted for Modi and Modi must answer many questions. He talks about the Visa issue when it’s long done and buried. His face turns into one of a pimp that didn’t get a customer when the people on the streets reject his nonsense and are cheerful for Modi. Why shouldn’t they be? Is Rajdeep expecting that all the people in the US, whether Indians or Americans, should harbour the same hatred for Modi that he has? That they shouldn’t come and cheer our PM because of his personal prejudices? And because those people come and cheer for Modi and India they are called “Bhakts”? Which schools teach this level of hatred to a moron like Rajdeep? Did he inherit it from his parents or from his wife? It did not end there. Rajdeep went on to another fracas with the public on the streets outside Madison Square Garden where a major Modi-event was scheduled. After ridiculing people and calling someone an “Asshole” Rajdeep gets back in the same coin but is unable to take it. He turns around and starts hitting out physically at the person. And after the incident this is what the liar tweets:

Does this stupid moron make any sense? He is a TV guy and has a team of cameramen around him. If he was indeed abused or kicked where is the video footage? If Rajdeep was on cam as he claims where is his own footage of the sequence leading up to his violent reaction? And throughout the day he kept whining as a victim when he was actually the offender who should have been arrested for his stupid behaviour. An American described Rajdeep’s stupidity perfectly in this tweet:

And all the pigs from the farm came out to support Rajdeep and “stand with him” in his hour of grief. That someone claiming to be a journalist has reduced himself to such street brawls does not even cross their minds before they tweet their support to him even when he is the criminal in the incident. The shameful gang of Barkha Dutt, Shiv Aroor, Shabana Azmi and many celebrity morons came out for Rajdeep without even bothering to check facts of the incident. It is the age of social media and technology which challenges these brain dead idiots and their lies. Someone did put up a video of the incident which leaves no doubt about who the criminal is in this scene:

That a scumbag like Rajdeep even physically touched a person is a crime by itself. The sicko goes much further and physically assaults the man. Ordinary people can be provoked and may get passionately angry (as Barkha Dutt once learned when she was booed and shooed away at Jantar Mantar) but you don’t call yourself a professional and react in the manner that Rajdeep reacted violently. There cannot be any excuse for this reaction. And then they call the people “Modi supporters” or “Modi Bhakts” or “Lunatic fringe”. Do these morons even realise that they were out to support and hear an INDIAN PM? Last night (Sep 30) in a discussion with Swapan Dasgupta, Barkha ranted “Modi dislikes journalists”. No moron, he doesn’t dislike journalists. He clearly knows journalists from hate-mongering pimps. He kindly calls them “News traders”. And then Barkha claimed Modi hasn’t said anything or condemned the people for attacking Rajdeep. They attacked Rajdeep?

If despite the video evidence she can so blatantly lie, then Modi is clearly right in ignoring fake journos like her. Most of all, people like Barkha, Rajdeep and Sagarika have made it a “personal” grudge with Modi when he hasn’t. Zee News ran a special programme on the incident and it does not make great viewing for the media mafia at all (4.57 minutes):

We should applaud that at least one channel put out the shameful truth about the two chronic hate-mongers Rajdeep and Sagarika. Both are a disgrace to their own mafia and have consistently lowered the level of gutter they soak their lives in. In a public area, with ordinary people on the streets that a so-called editor even calls people “assholes” should warrant condemnation from all around. Instead, the mafia pimps treated Rajdeep as a victim and ran to his defence. Their personal grudges and prejudices have brought Rajdeep and Sagarika to live a life of hatred. Hatred for others and even their own former colleagues and those who report the incident. #ShameAbroad was the trend and rightly so. What burns the hearts, minds and bodies of these idiots?

The undeniable fact is that hate-filled, ugly characters like Rajdeep are unable to stomach the popularity of Modi all around. His visit to the US and UN has been a grand success with politicians, businessmen and ordinary folks. It burns the bottoms of the Rajdeeps and Sagarikas of our media mafia. You may like or dislike a politician but you don’t go to the extent of revealing the ugliness of your character at the time of major events concerning the country’s Prime Minister. More so on foreign soil. Time has proved over and over again that while Modi continues to grow in stature, the ugliness of Rajdeep, Sagarika and their media mafia friends keeps growing. They keep revealing their ugly character more often.

I will leave you with another video where this cheap hate-monger tells people “Aap ke paas paisa hai, class nahin” (You have money but no class). That applies to Rajdeep and Sagarika more than anyone else. And ordinary folks know it all too well now.

NDTV - Train With The Beast

It’s not surprising or unusual that, with a couple of exceptions, most of NDTV’s female anchors are fair and lovely. True for other channels too. And they get fairer in the studio than while reporting from the ground. So some years back NDTV had this great debate on “We The Poodles” on whether Indians preferred fair skin. Reason for the debate? Excessive marketing of fairness creams in the market. They had all the beauties and advertising gurus on the show sparring over the issue. Every aspect of skin-colour preference was heatedly argued. All except one – Do fairness creams really work? Now, if the debate had conclusively established that these creams don’t work then it would have been a big blow to the fairness industry. That would have also meant a big blow to ad revenues for the channel. But TV debates aren’t meant to establish anything but deliver the good drama and theatre they are supposed to. So the tone of the debate was more on the ‘racist’ bias of Indians toward fair-skin rather than spurious creams.

P. Sainath, award-winning journalist, once remarked in an article that the Times of India had long become a vehicle for marketing as against a journal. There have been long periods when TOI has even gone without a proper editor. The simple reason is that TOI is clear who its readers are. Recent combative ads by The Hindu pretty much describe TOI as a paper for the page-3 watchers. People who don’t seek to be educated but who are sure to know the nick-name of Hrithik Roshan (Duggu). I often joke that the most ardent watchers and fans of NDTV have to be those who have a mini-bar at home. Frankly, there is nothing wrong if NDTV has clearly identified its segment and caters to their tastes. Trouble only starts when they also extend their preference on important topics to find users to suit their tastes. 

Every year around January NDTV unfailingly releases an ad for its broadcast training school. The ad headline reads ‘Train with the best’. The pics in the ad will tell you who they think are the best in the business. The best of the best. So one aspiring journalist fell for it and decided to intern with them. I don’t and cannot know what Khadija Ejaz learned at NDTV but I am sure as hell that she learned a few lessons that she won’t forget easily. The most important lesson would be not to indulge in journalism of the NDTV type. That is enough said by me. Let us stroll through Khadija’s experience with NDTV. She narrates it in an article titled ‘Voice of the People’ - When the opinion of the unattractive sweaty Indian is less important than that of his better looking, English speaking, compatriot. Excerpts below:

Diesel prices had gone up, and the input desk at NDTV in New Delhi had dispatched me to get reactions from customers at a gas station. Vox pop, they call it in the business, the voice of the people. I was interning in reporting that very hot month of June, so off I went…. Except that it was Saturday morning. Except this was diesel. Only a handful of people passed through the gas station for diesel that whole couple of hours, but I did speak to them and uplink their reactions back to the newsroom…. but I received a call from the edit bay telling me that the reactions I had got were not good enough and that I’d have to get more. I can’t remember exactly what I was told was lacking in the footage, but I remember the gist of it: the people didn’t look good/educated enough for TV. They spoke Hindi too. There’s a word for that in India: ghhaati. Low class.

Haha! I have reason to believe Khadija must have spent some time in Mumbai or in Maharashtra. ‘Ghaati’ is not common to the whole of India. Ghaati, for low-class, that she refers to is usually a term used in Maharashtra for the labourers from the region of Western Ghats and therefore the name. Sorry for interrupting, let’s read on:

But it was a story about diesel. The only people who bought diesel at gas stations were truck drivers, autorickshaw drivers…and other people’s drivers in general. Weren’t these the people whose reactions you’d want in a story about diesel? They were the ones who’d be affected by the price rise, right? I didn’t understand the issue with the Hindi either. Sure, we were an English channel, but we subtitled non-English footage all the time. It was not a big deal, so what was so different this time? I’d tried explaining that to the person who’d called me from the newsroom, but I was very silkily asked to just get some English bites from better-looking people who weren’t uneducated drivers…I got it. They wanted freshly-scrubbed white-collar reactions for the white-collar-catering Inglis channel. Didn’t matter if white-collar India didn’t care about diesel prices.

… I felt a little ridiculous. My intelligence and integrity felt vaguely insulted, but I still went. I put my Hindi aside and put on my best American accent because I was representing an English news channel to the English-speaking persons of India…. Only the previous month, when I was interning in the edit bay, had I been asked to edit vox pop footage that had come in from Kashmir about another price rise. I’d put the bites together, all of them in Hindi, and was then told by a young employee that they couldn’t put that footage on air. But why, I had asked, the bites had good content. The girl had laughed. “Have you seen their faces?” she had said, screwing up her pretty light-skinned nose at me, the poor newbie. “We can’t put such visuals on air.”

Such people? Dark-skinned people from lower-income families? But what about the content? That footage never made it on the air on our English channel, but our Hindi channel ran it all day long. So the English channel only showed the good-looking people of India? But what about content? What about what we had initially been told at NDTV about journalistic ethics and the real issues and how journalism was supposed to be a pillar of democracy, the voice of the people? Or was it the voice of certain sections of the people depending on the segment of India you were catering to? The unattractive sweaty Indian is also a part of India. In fact, he is about 90% of India.

Journalistic ethics! Pillar of democracy! Voice of the people! I broke out in laughter. If only Khadija Ejaz had met me before interning at NDTV I would have explained to her what to expect. I would have asked her to first check out the areas and houses where all the ‘best’ journos lived. She wouldn’t find sweaty Indians there. She would have then been trained on which people to interview. She confuses ‘trucks’ for real trucks. In our TV channel lexicon ‘truck’ means those swank SUVs driven by people who don’t sweat or stink. Khadija should have spoken to me before-hand. I would have educated her on what Barkha Dutt, and even Sagarika Ghose, really think of middle class and lower class Indians. She should have read many of their articles. At the very least I would have shown her Sagarika’s tweet about “Ugly Indian males”.

Never mind! Khadija has the benefit of learning the ropes the hard way. That if and when you apply for work at NDTV or any Indian TV channel make sure you use an abundant dose of Fair & Lovely. Make sure you invest in the best of deodorants or perfumes. Nothing wins like a ‘sweet smelling’ journalist. Come January NDTV will have another of their training school ads out. I recommend they make a small correction though. Instead of ‘Best’ I think “Train with the Beast” would be far more appropriate.