Nine Things in the Newspapers that are driving ME up the wall :

1. Island City to get less power, but to pay more- Oh Wow! What Good NEWS!! they are announcing it as if India has put a man on the moon. how fair and just is it to suffer power cuts during this bloody swelteringly hot summer and to add insult to injury pay more for that!! Agreed there's massive shortage of power in the state but who asked the state to make up plans to distribute free power else where. keep the streetlamps on in broad daylight and turn them off when its dark- thats state's electricty saving policies for you.
under this the Mumbai Mirror asks "should south mumbai have power cuts?"
and why shouldnt it???? some dork says " I dont think its fair for south mumbai to face power cuts as the economic growth of the entire mumbai city will come to a halt. If the hospitals there do not get electricty, the patients will have to suffer. it will also hamper industrial growth." tell me dude wat abt hospitals in other parts of mumbai??? nowadays anyways nariman point and other south mumbai hubs are being taken over in terms of business volume by hubs in BKC,Mulund and other suburbs.

2. EMI rates for home loans increased- yes! very good! make the private banks richer while making sure you leave the middle class without any aid to make investments in the lucrative real estate or even letting them buy homes for their old age.. someday when i'll b looking to buy my own flat i'll b paying more than half of my salary in paying EMIs. :X

3. The Pramod Mahajan Trial- Pravin Mahajan murdered his brother. He has himself admitted so, confessed to the crime. There were eye witnesses who have established the same. yet the "defence" grills Mrs.Mahajan and it seems that it asked her questions about the colour of her fridge, the bottles kept inside and other such trivia. Imagine wasting time on such open shut cases where there are hundreds and thousands of cases piling dust on their covers. Just because they are concerned with famous personalities and attract more attention from the media, these cases are being used as examples of 'swift justice'. Thank the lawyers who have complained about the swift trials of just the "powerful" leaving the poor to languish in labyrinths of postponed court hearings, transferred judges and a seemingly indifferent judiciary system to the CJ.

4. Hype and Hoopla over introduction of Sex Education in Schools- Most people interviewed have given a postive response to the whole idea it seems. Yet the state legislature thinks otherwise. The same bloody tendency to play moral police forever.You ban FTV, AXN, Orkut, detain couples frm bandstand, set up an enquiry committee to probe Carol Gracias and a host of other models' "wardrobe malfunction" while leaving hundreds of complaints and FIRs related to much more important issues unattended. As it is any child just needs to log on to the internet or open the Mirror itself to get an adequate dose of daily titillation. What else is the State gonna BAN???

5. Malakar outlasts another detractor- Its not so much the news but the people involved in it that infuriates me. Some NRI singing his way to glory with only modest talent as they say, some blogger goes on a hunger strike to protest against his selection and then chickens out knowing the futility of the purpose citing "doctors orders" as if the doctor waited to see the american idol results(a whole bloody 16 days!) before giving his "orders". Its not indian idol- its just that there some PIO involved!!

6. Tussauds comes to MUMBAI- you'd think the wax museum is opening up in Kalaghoda this spring! but no they r coming in the year 2009,2010... so its just that we've been given 2 years to get ready for the frenzied excitement of having wax statues of celebs from all over the world. next they will b giving us the list of bollywood nymphets and bloated-up 'heroes' whose statues will feature in the musuem. bet mallika sherawat and rakhi sawant would fight for the most vulgar bust(literally)! mayb we would have abhi-ash posing wid mummy papa- amitabh and jaya- epoch making news!!

7. Mumbai Mirror's Health Tips-
I. To reduce varicose veins, it is important to do regular exercise, walk, run, cycle and swim to keep blood vessels healthy- they forgot mentioning yoga, reiki, atkins diet, et al.
II. If you get wounded and blood is running out, use blend tea on the injured area to stop bleeding immediately - am i supposed to carry a pouch containing Earl Grey, Darjeeling, Oolong, Green, Ceylon tea( blend tea, anyone?) all the time around my neck like a first aid kit????

8. Jlo ditches bling to go on Jury Duty- i can hardly believe that you'd think that anyone, even someone as stupid as Jlo would think of going in a diamond studded bikini for jury duty! its actually the paparazzi that regrets Jlo keeping her ass-ets under wraps and hence the news.

9. Desi Tycoon plans parallel Cricket league- India cant manage the heroic eleven, imagine having a dozen clubs containing more of such heroes. imagine the number of endorsements of shampoos, colas, Tvs, Shoes, apparel, Accessories, soaps, hair oils, tyres, insurance schemes, fans, bulbs, tubelights, toilet paper and a host of other such products that these players would feature in. Greg's already blabberring about d "mafioso" in d indian cricket team hurting the sentiments of many senior players in the process. so who'll be the godfather when cricekt leagues come up??Subhash Chandra(ZEE head honcho) plans to invest 100 crores in his scheme.i'm sure our eleven heroes cumulatively make more than that in a year with their endorsements alone.

i'm too tired and irked to go on about the top ten stories that drew my horns out, so i hav left it at just 9. :O :(