Perspective

 Was watching the Ranveer show. Oh, no, nothing naughty, not the Ranveer of the not even the fig leaf variety. Rather the Ranveer, the podcaster. His podcasts are quite interesting and unusual.

I have watched just a few of his hundred podcasts. I must say he manages to get interesting speakers on the show. The one i watched this evening was with Anil Dhar. Yes, Anil Dhar, the Delhi journalist of the investigative variety. 

On this podcast, he was talking of a raw nerve defining the Indian Independence Struggle.  Yes, you guessed it right. He was talking of the most mysterious Subhash Chandra Bose. The material he shared was quite volatile, but it sure ignited the intellectual wonder through an analytical frame of mind.

In this context, i do not mind owning up absolutely openly that i often watch the Arnav Goswami debates. Yes, i know that he is anathema to many a groups, but nobody can deny his fabulous international resources. Where else do I hope to watch the Ukranian president live on the Indian T V, for instance? Moreover, despite the aggressive debates, you are free to form your own perspective, right?

 It is in this spirit that often i do watch the Times Now channel, too. Some of the panelists are worth a note. It is, for example, quite interesting to listen in to the very academically structured, precise presentation of Dr. Ranganathan. It is a great fun to watch the two Poonawala's parry, too.

My favourite one is the ET Now though. Great speakers, superb themes, very powerful presentations pulsating with contemporary ideas, a mix of thought and action, that is the ET Now discussion for you. Yes, a sprinkle of the BBC, the CNN, the Al Jazeera, the Discovery and the National Geographic, and, voila, your perspective is multi-faceted. 

Well, like the genie in Alladin's lamp, the (social) media, too, is a monster, and you can use it maturely to frame your perspective(s)  intelligently, right? In brief, like the mind, as Milton put it succinctly, the ( social) media, too, is in its place, and (you) can make a heaven of hell, and vice versa. 

Pratima@ Perspectives are like the kaleidoscopic paradigms. Change the angle just a wee little bit, and the entire pattern re-emerges as a new de-sign!  Real attractive is this game of patterns and perspectives!