Most of news you see on your TV sets these days is outrage disguised as news. How dare X say that about Y? How dare Z take so many foreign trips? Why did A switch from party 1 to party 2 while pretending to join party 3? Why is B tweeting that? Anyway, to help you keep track, here are the top outrages of the day, in case you missed your dose of the daily news!
The Drought Selfie
For the last several months, Maharashtra's drought has been in the news after mainstream media got bored with the intolerance debate and realised there just might be some other news worth covering. Suddenly, everyone was worried about Latur, as they went after everything that was taking up water.
No, we weren’t bothered about bathroom showers or the sugarcane industry, but about the glitzy IPL. How dare you hold an IPL while there are people dying? Even those who tried to explain the futility of the argument that the IPL really didn’t take up that much water, including the likes of Rahul Dravid, were criticised.
Well, it’s always dangerous to mess around in situations like this. Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde, who was earlier accused of being part of the chikki scam in the state, clicked a selfie while reviewing desilting work on the river bed of Manjara in Latur. Now, while the PM prefers clicking selfies with world leaders, Munde made the mistake of clicking one at Latur.
This led to the usual social media outrage, who really negate Arnab Goswami these days, and Pankaja Munde tried to justify it by saying: “I was really happy to see water in a trench. So I clicked some photos of that trench with water and recorded work being carried out. There was not excitement but just satisfaction to see some ray of hope.”
Of course, the BJP’s complicated ally couldn’t let it go as Shiv Sena’s Manisha Kayande said: “"It is unfortunate that a minister went and clicked selfies in drought-hit Latur.”
Outrage Meter: 2 out of 5
No Kohinoor
As if the day couldn’t get any worse, the government dashed a billion hopes when they said that the Kohinoor wasn’t rightfully ours. Ever since we were little kids, we’d been told that the Kohinoor was the most amazing gem of all time, one that our crowning glory. On Monday, the Centre told the Supreme Court that the gem wasn’t actually ours and had been legally given to the British!
The court was told: “Kohinoor cannot be said to be forcibly taken or stolen as it was given by the successors of Maharaja Ranjit Singh to East India Company in 1849 as compensation for helping them in the Sikh wars.”
The Solicitor General observed: “If we claim our treasures like Kohinoor from other countries, every other nation will start claiming their items from us. There will be nothing left in our museum.”
When the bench mentioned the Tipu Sultan sword, it was pointed out that the man who bought sword has left the country! That man is none other than Vijay Mallya.
Outrage Meter: 4 out of 5 (we grew up dreaming about it)
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