Indian talk
show hosts love mindless debates on all issues.The
Marathi Electronic media is replete
with senseless "breaking news" reportage where two-penny anchors (read poor actors) are
keen, nay desperate, to turn celebrities overnight, with their nonsensical sermons that invariably begin and end with 'अशा पद्धतीने' and 'त्या ठिकाणी'
I couldn't believe
my eyes and ears when one
hostess pompously exclaimed in third person:
"मला लोकं विचारतात - ज्ञानदा, सांग ना,
आम्ही काय काळजी घ्यायची कोरोना साठी - मी म्हणते, ज्ञानदा तुम्हाला काय
सांगणार - ती हेच म्हणेल - सोशल डिस्टंसिन्ग ठेवा, घराबाहेर पडू नका, काळजी घ्या "
All the other channels have less scary versions of
ज्ञानदा in both genders.
God save this country, both from Covid and Covid journos.
Statutory warning: there are no drugs or vaccines to counter the machinations and mutations of the latter category.