Bulli Bais, Sulli Deals…Zombies Thrill, Bullies Drill And Shrill!
Those heinous and
offensive things that the currently-raging Bulli Bai app tried to project are
universally condemnable and it should ideally have ended with that condemnation,
particularly after the hosting web platform which was misused banned the app
along with the links to it like they did last year too. However, it is a
different issue altogether as to how the same platform could be misused again
and again without its knowledge. But unfortunately, the media upsurge continued
unabated, and even now they are spiritedly continuing with the update headlines
with the arrests of some of the culprits behind. Why? Well, obviously because
they know that the people of our haplessly vulnerable country are much more
attracted by negative news rather than positive developments, and the ‘names’ involved
here really were so mysteriously bewitching that they thought this could generate
wonderfully lucrative TRPs.
One of the arrested accused
reportedly said that he wanted to have some good publicity generated about him through
this venture that could eradicate the stamp of ‘nonentity’ from him forever. And
the media upsurge fulfilled his wishes to the fullest extent possible. We witness
in our ‘digital India’ nowadays numerous instances of the ‘vulnerable’ citizens
taking selfies with dying victims of accidents or for that matter any victim of
any tragedy rather than trying to help those fellow human beings, and they also
videograph the lynching of unfortunate victims with unrestrained sadistic glee,
and the visuals later find the mainstream media and the social media where
these are welcomed with matching glee, showing the horrible clips in loops endlessly.
Therefore, we must amend our earlier dictum of ‘vulnerable people being more attracted
by negative happenings’ by saying that most of the news channels are equally
attracted more by the negative incidents.
We referred to such
perverts of our countries as the ‘Zombies’ much earlier in these pages, and
very disconcertingly, the Zombie class has been growing steadily over the last
few years. They are becoming mechanized or programmed animals rather than human
beings, and they venomously loathe the human values and the society. Shockingly,
such perverts are being nurtured and looked after by a lot of other mechanisms
of this unfortunate country. Some of the Zombies are real wizards as far as the
digital media is concerned, and perhaps due to the lack of enough opportunities
during the raging pandemic they have been devoting their idle brains more to
such sullying or bullying acts that bring them instant ‘fame’ (notoriety being
synonymous with fame for them), thanks to an obliging media, social media and
the vulnerable netizens thereof.
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