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T. S. Eliot had once remarked “Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” How true in today’s time when we are bombarded with reality shows. Big Brother Controversy has rocked not only India but the whole of the Britain so much so that Channel 4 is thinking of taking the most popular reality TV show in Britain off air. The remarks of Jade Goody to Shilpa Shetty have been termed as racist by the latter. Though I have not seen the Big Brother episode but whatever bits and pieces are available on Indian television do not portray a good picture at all. Jade has been finally evicted and the most shameful thing for her must have been that nobody came up to receive her after the show. The mass hatred for her is visible everywhere. After being evicted from the show even she has confessed that some of her remarks to Shilpa were indeed racist. A bid to patch up things I suppose… Hellen Keller had said that “The best result that education can provide to anyone is tolerance.” Going by this notion, the participants are not that well educated. But the fact remains that it is a reality show and things are supposed to go off the mark!

A nice thought-provoking poem to start the new year with…I received this as a forward.

I have in my hands two boxes,

Which God gave me to hold.

He said, “Put all your sorrows in the black box,

And all your joys in the gold.”

I heeded His words, and in the two boxes,

Both my joys and sorrows I stored,

But though the gold became heavier each day,

The black was as light as before.

With curiosity, I opened the black,

I wanted to find out why,

And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole,

Which my sorrows had fallen out by.

I showed the hole to God, and mused,

“I wonder where my sorrows could be!”