Maverick

According to my humble opinion, this is it:

1. Hindi Saregama on Zee TV. Simply for the singing talent. You have to ignore the other reality show specific stuff.

2. Star Voice of India on Star Plus (it is a pity that this and #1 are at the same time). Same comments as #1.

3. Saregama Lil Champs on Zee Marathi. While the kids are superb, the judges Avdhoot Gupte and Vaishali Samant add to the fun.

4. Man vs Wild on Discovery Channel. Bear Grylls rocks. Without getting into controversy of how much help he gets to survive in wildnerness, you to have to see him. And yes, if you have a vegetarian mind like me, you may want to look the other way when he eats any movable insect/animal he comes across.

हा गणेशोत्सव तुमच्यासाठी आणि तुमच्या परिवारासाठी
सुखाचा आणि भरभराटिचा जावो ही शुभेच्छा !

So finally I made good my promise of shutting off newspapers and news channels out of my life. This has already started showing an effect. For example, I almost missed an important story today.

Pune Mirror today reported about mobile tower radiation figures in some prominent areas in Pune. The findings are indeed shocking. The ideal value, the story said was about 1 mW/m2 (microwatts/square meter) whereas in almost all the reported areas, it was much higher. In the Hinjewadi IT park, this figure touched 9000.

Now this is quite scary considering the proliferation of cell phones all across the country. While we are tomtomming the rapid teledensity growth, are we as a country paying heed to the health concerns ? It is high time the government comes up with a policy on this.

PS: If you are looking for some positive news on the internet, you could start with this and this.