Newspapers???

I have vacations and reading newspaper is a good habit(as thay say it :)).So yes I am a bit more informed about my surrounding these days .From past few days the latest news which flushed out on the newspaper pages were all  about the 34 years of end of Left’s reign  in east and Mamata ddi’s splendid win,ofcourse accompanying Jayalalitha or amma’s win in south, which obviously followed the editor’s and media person’s predictions and critics for many days on the grand events as the aftermaths.(As if the Bangloreans or Mumbaites or any outsider has got  to do anything with how well  these two madams are going to perform on the big stage or how much Bengal or Tamil Nadu are going to gain or loose).Well and yes ofcourse then the petrol price hike news(which has become such a routine work nowadays  that it’s hard to call it a news now!! ).Ahha  see I told I am reading :)

Though with internet gaining momentum many of us prefers to have a look on the headlines on wwws or even the job lookers do not need to rely on rozgar pages of newspapers,  but still newspapers have its utmost significance maintained till today in our daily life. Even though we get the same news being repeated hundresds of times on TV channels ,still the morning freshness with a cup of tea can only be felt completely when you get your hands on newspaper(for many of us!!).

I really get amused at times on how important an engagement it becomes, for many people at many places.Let it be offices,railway stations or even airports,one can easily find a good 60% of the public engrossed into newspapers atleast when  the clock shows a time between 6am to 10 am.

        Once while travelling from Bhubaneswar to Bangalore which takes almost 

30 hours, I found a co-passenger,an uncle  ,who was also travelling alone.To my surprise rather shock, he spent atleast 15 hours of the journey reading newspaper where at the same position I was awfully frustrated with the boring journey and was continuously switching between movies and magazines. Though I can understand the binding force a  novel provides with its sequencential flow but how can a newspaper create the same magic??(Yes it can be a good question for many newspaper readers like me :))

Anyways what I can think of now can only be of  what a different person I could have been with an intellectual interest in newspapers.I would have known all the scandal’s histories,I would have been able to know better about the share markets or the Indian dramatical politics ,I would have had an unbeatable vocabulary power or rather in a nutshell I would have been a miniature form of encyclopedia .But after thourough self analysis I know now, no matter how hard I give it a try  still I am going to stuck myself between 5 to 6 articles :)

Tip:-Reading headlines is a great job as well..Join wih me :)

Cheers!!

Akshya