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Given that the tehelka is missing, yellow journalism and vanilla copy have taken over, sadly, in these days of sting operations to prop up TRP ratings and circulation figures. “ I am very disappointed with Indian journalists.
The single biggest problem I have with them is they are just too nice. That just doesn’t work for a problematic nation like India. This nation needs watch dogs that bark and bite. Not fetch.” Point taken. And how does he plan to remedy the present scenario? “ I dream of being a totally kick-behind multimedia journo. All I need is a media baron or a Mr Money Bags to support me.”
Speaking of money, how deeply entrenched are the Sindhi genes? The innovative streak is evident in his next candid confession. “My real family name is ‘Thakurani’, but I tinkered with it a bit in my school days, to make it rhyme with Paul McCartney, whose big fan I was at the time. The rest of my family members were no fans of The Beatles, so they retained the original version,” reveals Anil with a wink. (I believe that!). Maybe the change synchronised with some numerological inclusions. And luckily clicked big time.
Yet the perception of the man by members of his community is quite interesting. “Most of them think of me to be a loser. They just cannot understand why I “make money for other people, when charya, you can start your own business.”
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