Though I have started this blog long time ago, it took this long time to post something. Having trouble in making up my mind to write something, I haven't written any recently. After a long night sleep of ten hours and lazy to get ready for office, I switched on my LG Flatron TV which has a Videocon D2H connection. Browsing through the stupid list of entertainment and movie channels, I have reached the first Telugu 24x7 news channel. Was never interested in the masala news they telecast, but the background music seemed familiar and so I paused on that channel for a moment. Turned out that the music was from a Telugu dubbed Tamil movie which was a free-make of an English top rater. It was then I started to make sense of whatever they are showing.
Surprisingly, it made some sense. The newsreader is discussing a topic that made me think if I had taken any milk recently. The topic is about the use of the chemical Oxytocin in production of milk. Having been a good biology student in school, I immediately recognized that Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland in the brain. Its role in the fairer sex is obvious as it helps in lactation and at the time of giving birth. I have comfortably forgotten its role in males, if any. The news report says that this chemical is injected to cattle to produce more milk, understandably. But it is found that the traces of chemical are present in the produced milk, which has harmful effects on those who drink it such as inhibited growth in children etc. (Here I wondered for a second, on how the human body works. The same chemical that is useful in breast feeding and growth of child, can also inhibit the growth. Due to lack of technical or grounded data, my wondering about the functioning of the chemical was stopped prematurely). Hence, the Government banned its use in dairy industry and the sale of the chemical was limited to 'on prescription only'. But as usual in the functioning of the country, the Government order stayed with the government and the oxytocin flowed over the counters in pharmacies. A recent attack or raid on some unlucky pharmacies have brought this issue into limelight. And a part of me in my head chuckled 'Need feeds the Greed'.
Then the newsreader showed another familiar picture from my short life in Hyderabad. A picture of someone eating biryani in the Bawarchi terrace restaurant. This time the salivary glands became a little active, but the news made my jaw drop. It said that due to Global warming, the most important ingredient in biryani, the basmati rice is losing its characteristic smell and taste. Apparently, basmati rice species grows only in the subcontinent and the name means 'good smell' in Sanskrit. The newsreader said the scientists from the Indian Agricultural Research institute (whose existence I knew not before) in Delhi have found this disastrous piece of information from their lucky experiments with crops. Then came the greater tragedy, an old bald guy from the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (I knew this one is in Hyderabad and can so say this news is not fake) concurred with the above statement. Now I want to have biryani the next time I go to Hyderabad, I better have as much as possible before the D-Day comes.
Then a part of me which tries to link up many things and processes so much information unknowingly in the background (heard somewhere that it is called the sub-conscious) popped up something into foreground. What happens after the D-day? If the rice loses its charm, then will the biryani makers use some chemical to get back that taste and smell to attract the customers? Will this case be similar to the oxytocin one? There came the idea to spit this thought onto the vast internet.
Now came the final piece of news of the day. The reporter on site is still trying to explain the biryani scenario when the newsreader suddenly moved the scene to our HM's conference with CMs of states. I was shocked of this sudden change in topic. Then I saw that little word 'LIVE' written on the top left corner of screen along with the saw-that-somewhere doordarshan symbol. It then reminded me that I am watching the first Telugu 24x7 news channel which thrives to be first in showing all kinds of information irrespective of the context. This rejection made me switch off the TV and look at the watch. I had to come running (not literally) to the office to post this first post that took a long time on my blog that was started a long time back.
Surprisingly, it made some sense. The newsreader is discussing a topic that made me think if I had taken any milk recently. The topic is about the use of the chemical Oxytocin in production of milk. Having been a good biology student in school, I immediately recognized that Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland in the brain. Its role in the fairer sex is obvious as it helps in lactation and at the time of giving birth. I have comfortably forgotten its role in males, if any. The news report says that this chemical is injected to cattle to produce more milk, understandably. But it is found that the traces of chemical are present in the produced milk, which has harmful effects on those who drink it such as inhibited growth in children etc. (Here I wondered for a second, on how the human body works. The same chemical that is useful in breast feeding and growth of child, can also inhibit the growth. Due to lack of technical or grounded data, my wondering about the functioning of the chemical was stopped prematurely). Hence, the Government banned its use in dairy industry and the sale of the chemical was limited to 'on prescription only'. But as usual in the functioning of the country, the Government order stayed with the government and the oxytocin flowed over the counters in pharmacies. A recent attack or raid on some unlucky pharmacies have brought this issue into limelight. And a part of me in my head chuckled 'Need feeds the Greed'.
Then the newsreader showed another familiar picture from my short life in Hyderabad. A picture of someone eating biryani in the Bawarchi terrace restaurant. This time the salivary glands became a little active, but the news made my jaw drop. It said that due to Global warming, the most important ingredient in biryani, the basmati rice is losing its characteristic smell and taste. Apparently, basmati rice species grows only in the subcontinent and the name means 'good smell' in Sanskrit. The newsreader said the scientists from the Indian Agricultural Research institute (whose existence I knew not before) in Delhi have found this disastrous piece of information from their lucky experiments with crops. Then came the greater tragedy, an old bald guy from the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (I knew this one is in Hyderabad and can so say this news is not fake) concurred with the above statement. Now I want to have biryani the next time I go to Hyderabad, I better have as much as possible before the D-Day comes.
Then a part of me which tries to link up many things and processes so much information unknowingly in the background (heard somewhere that it is called the sub-conscious) popped up something into foreground. What happens after the D-day? If the rice loses its charm, then will the biryani makers use some chemical to get back that taste and smell to attract the customers? Will this case be similar to the oxytocin one? There came the idea to spit this thought onto the vast internet.
Now came the final piece of news of the day. The reporter on site is still trying to explain the biryani scenario when the newsreader suddenly moved the scene to our HM's conference with CMs of states. I was shocked of this sudden change in topic. Then I saw that little word 'LIVE' written on the top left corner of screen along with the saw-that-somewhere doordarshan symbol. It then reminded me that I am watching the first Telugu 24x7 news channel which thrives to be first in showing all kinds of information irrespective of the context. This rejection made me switch off the TV and look at the watch. I had to come running (not literally) to the office to post this first post that took a long time on my blog that was started a long time back.
informative :)
ReplyDeleteHilarious :D :D
ReplyDeleteIts interesting you put attack and raid as equivalent. :)
And my favourite, "saw-that-somewhere symbol" and "old bald guy" :D :D