No, this isn't a 'fresh' perspective on how Sunanda Pushkar may have died. This is more of a fresh outburst of thoughts on news gone stale, sorry, the ethos of media gone stale, lately. Thus apparently, what was deemed more worthy of being a front page headline in the newspapers, or prime news on various channels, was the Twitter quarrel between Sunanda Pushkar and Tharoor's alleged love interest. Indicting the paparazzi (yes, that's the word I'd like to use here) for trying to create a ruckus in the already muddled relations with her husband, she asked them to back off. However, the newspapers and channels could only stay loyal to their profession and go on to scrape off finer details about who Mehr Tarar is, for instance, and more.
Now that all coverage has died down, I wonder what prompted the lull. Is it like it took Sunanda Pushkar's death for the media to realize that things can take a turn more tipsy-turvy than a wife vs. vamp TV Soap, much like what they were trying to portray the whole 'Tweetathon' as? And hence, after paying due respects by mentioning that she may have died an 'unnatural' death, they finally decided to let her rest in peace? The question is, what did the media ever have to do with the turmoil in her life anyway?
Suddenly, the speculations have ended, Sunanda Pushkar's death is now stale news. Or let's say, the approach towards journalism on the part of media has turned stale. A flurry of articles, file pictures, and more didn't quite suffice to keep up with the national news that her 'tiff' with the 'other woman' in her husband's life had turned to. But a woman, who divorced her first husband, who faced the death of her second husband with courage to bring up her son, moving across countries to secure his future by switching jobs, someone who's been called a 'spa-owner', a 'beautician' by the press, did make things alright, each time. Being haunted and having her life and her very image manipulated by the media, was nothing short of a "medieval witch hunt", in her words. And to have committed suicide after only having vehemently expressed her dislike for the state of affairs in her life, seems like a mammoth printing error in the public story her life was turned into.
So is the media trying to boast of finally letting Sunanda Pushkar rest in peace, after her death? In that case, clearly, they've got their priorities wrong. The stark reality of her mysterious death, surely has less relevance for the press, or didn't quite manage to go 'trending', unlike the virtual reality of the Twitter tiff. I'm guessing, my new-found interest in reading the newspapers again, wasn't such a great idea after all.
Now that all coverage has died down, I wonder what prompted the lull. Is it like it took Sunanda Pushkar's death for the media to realize that things can take a turn more tipsy-turvy than a wife vs. vamp TV Soap, much like what they were trying to portray the whole 'Tweetathon' as? And hence, after paying due respects by mentioning that she may have died an 'unnatural' death, they finally decided to let her rest in peace? The question is, what did the media ever have to do with the turmoil in her life anyway?
Suddenly, the speculations have ended, Sunanda Pushkar's death is now stale news. Or let's say, the approach towards journalism on the part of media has turned stale. A flurry of articles, file pictures, and more didn't quite suffice to keep up with the national news that her 'tiff' with the 'other woman' in her husband's life had turned to. But a woman, who divorced her first husband, who faced the death of her second husband with courage to bring up her son, moving across countries to secure his future by switching jobs, someone who's been called a 'spa-owner', a 'beautician' by the press, did make things alright, each time. Being haunted and having her life and her very image manipulated by the media, was nothing short of a "medieval witch hunt", in her words. And to have committed suicide after only having vehemently expressed her dislike for the state of affairs in her life, seems like a mammoth printing error in the public story her life was turned into.
So is the media trying to boast of finally letting Sunanda Pushkar rest in peace, after her death? In that case, clearly, they've got their priorities wrong. The stark reality of her mysterious death, surely has less relevance for the press, or didn't quite manage to go 'trending', unlike the virtual reality of the Twitter tiff. I'm guessing, my new-found interest in reading the newspapers again, wasn't such a great idea after all.
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