A Wednesday

Yes, 'have stolen' the headline from the movie from the name of the movie. Will save you (readers') the harrasment of thinking.

The day started as usual. Searching for story ideas to keep myself busy and be productive. Meeting targets and deadlines, the usual stuff. Read an interesting article in Mint where the editors were complaining of the current rating system.

But then suddenly the newschannels started screaming that reports have come that there was a blast in New Delhi outside the high-court.

Of the six televisions that were blasting soundbites trying to gain attention. One particular channel said the sentence "There has been a blast outside the highcourt in New Delhi" nine consecutive times with slight variation of speed and trying to sound serious, as if the first time or the second time the viewers didn't get it. And they were blind enough to not read the alert that was flashing right at the center of the TV.

Them there was another channel where the host concluded even before anyone can actually understand the situation that this was done by a terrorist outfit from outside the country. Sounded as if wanted to claim, he was the one who did it, that was the level of surity.

And then Rajdeep Sardesai was talking about how the CCTV was not working nor were the metal detectors. This led me to think that perhaps the mere presence of security theatrics does work because whoever did it did not try taking it inside.

There were couple of things that were surprising about this. First it was a bold move considering that there was recently a blast in Mumbai. Second, the choice of location, why the high court in Delhi? Attention does not seem to be the motive here because there could be many other locations which would have got the imagination of the crowd. It was also not a location which was VVIP sort, it was near it but not the brightest of spot.

So either these guys were absolutely dumb or this puzzle will only be solved on flick.

And as for the interesting article I was reading on Mint. I think you should also read it.