Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online
Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics onlineIt was funny reading the newspapers today. It was Husain, Husain, Husain and, oh, did I forget Husain? That summed up much of the action on Twitter, almost 48 hours after the passing of the artist. Someone called Sarma J pointed out that his death could not have come at a more opportune moment as 'all attention will now move away from corruption.'
Rajiv Sharma echoed the sentiment: 'All old tapes have been played, everyone has appeared on all channels in tears, can we please get back to corruption?' It may not be over just yet though.u00a0 In Aditi Mittal's words: 'Losing an artist like him will affect the South Asian art community, but what will stem the flow of saccharine sentiments from the media?' What, indeed?
God is in the detailsThe Internet works in very strange ways. This is why Google's translator service made cricketer Suresh Raina a worldwide phenomenon. When translated from English to Serbian and back to English, the phrase 'Suresh Raina is God' mysteriously changed to 'Sachin Tendulkar is God.' All solid proof that even ghosts in our machines love cricket.
And justice for all?Tahawwur Rana began to clog timelines after a Chicago court acquitted the Pakistani-Canadian from charges that he was involved in the Mumbai terror attacks.u00a0A certain Isha Ganeriwal wanted to know: 'Considering India suffered in the aftermath of 26/11, how did America get the right to pass verdict on the convicts? What if a similar process were adopted for 9/11?' Nikki R had what could pass for an answer: 'Justice and the law are clearly distinctively different.'
The last wordI couldn't help point this out. Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma made what I assume is his first sensible comment since logging on to Twitter: 'The best man for the job is a woman.'
