Random Thoughts And Opinions

Well you may say that it has nothing to do with the issues here but it is somewhat related. Advani, the leading man of the opposition party in India has opened his website with a blog of his own. I have visited it just once. 

Now the question is will the increase of access of Internet to politics  really benefit the citizens anyway or will it just remain another publicity stunt? I would like to see how Mr. Advani reacts to harsh comments from Congress or rival party followers. I personally think it will give the citizens who are Internet educated a chance to question the motives and actions of the leading politicians much more now. Though I don’t like the fact that one need to log in to comment there as that reduces the chance to interact as an anonymous member of the democracy.

Will you visit your leaders blog often? I just hope more and more politicians take up blogging as their part time and get down to answer some serious questions before elections. I will surely visit the sites of these men and if not comment atleast read on the latest developments and public reactions to them. How often do we get the chance to see our politicians replying to the commoners question after all except before the elections. Also many youngsters who are just entering into their voting phase or knows little about whats going on in the National Politics given these websites on’t turn into advertisements or election banners.

In the last post I had written on the effect the celebrities with stick thin figures are having on adolescents. Now that gave rise to a very popular question - do celebrities needs to be more responsible due to their public image? The matter will have different answers from different sections of the society. I will write on both and also my own opinion!

Most celebrities argues that the off-screen image belongs to their personal life and they are free to behave anyway they feel like in that area. For example Shahrukh had argued that smoking is his personal decision and no body need to bother about that. Well he had also added to it that he personally feel that smoking is not good and is trying hard to get rid of this bad habit of his. Now was there any necessity for Shahrukh to clarify his opinion on smoking when its properly mentioned on every cigarette packet-”smoking is injurious to health”. Yes , this step was a good decision, because almost every Indian youngster idolises anything Shahrukh Khan, or King Khan as he is more famously known as, does and this step prevented them from getting the wrong notion that Shahrukh thinks smoking is “cool”.

When a person enters a public field like the entertainment industry they no longer can lead their life according to their own wishes as they are then nothing but public figures. So more responsible behaviour is needed to be showcased by the celebrities. Like a dull charity function becomes a big Page 3 event when somebody like Kajol or Arjun Rampal attends it and thereby gathers more attention and help. Amitabh Bachchan has not only given his full support to Global warming but promoted it with all his might and that had a bigger impact all the other past Global warming awareness campaigns. 

Killing endangered animal, running down innocent people at night with a car and lastly having illegal weapons an drugs in their houses is not what a person who is a public figure need to be related to, especially here where crores of people still idolises the celebrities like crazies.