ET Now - The No. 1 Business News Channel

ET Now can now rightfully claim to be the No. 1 biz news channel with 42 % viewer-ship as declared through survey by TAM recently. I too agree with it as it has now become my favorite biz news channel. Earlier when the channel was new there were so things I was disappointed with, but now I think channel’s management must also have taken notice of its flaws and corrected them.

First of all, ET Now’s ticker management has improved a lot. In fact, now it’s even better than that of TV18. I think the experience of Ayesha Faridi must have come in handy in this regard. The channel has hired talented anchors and even attracted well-known anchors from other news channels like Ayesha Faridi, Nikunj Dalmia, Manisha Gupta, Tanvir Gill, Shaili Chopra and many others. So now it has got the best team of News Anchors. It seems everything is falling in right places for the channel.

On the other hand, CNBC TV18 is getting worse day by day. It’s losing its sheen now. It has lost most of the anchors which were the back-bone of the channel to ET Now. Moreover, it seems it is unable to get rid of boring anchors like Lata Venkatesh who is not fluent and lacks the flow (which is the hall-mark of a good news-anchor). She is very clumsy and lacks spontaneity. The channel has now only three-four talented news-anchors like Udyan Mukhejee, Mithali Mukherjee and Sonia Shenoy. Besides, the quality of its programming is also deteriorating.  

My Hibiscus Plant

After we shifted to our new house I didn’t had much to do. Since this place was totally new to me, I had no friends here and unlike city I couldn’t take tuitions of high school children also. So I was kind of totally free. Here we have a big compound in front of our house. I spend a lot of time there and it’s quite refreshing because in city it was hard to find an open place where we can get fresh air and plants around us. Our neighbors have variety of plants in their compounds. Since we were new here our compound was totally empty and barren. So I thought of having at least one plant in our compound.

The First Hibiscus Flower

For the First time Plant Produced Three Flowers

One day a plant-seller was passing by with lot of different plants on his cart. I stopped him and inquired him about various plants. I wasn’t interested in rose plant since the climate here in not suitable for it and my previous experience with rose plant was not good. Monkeys never allow rose plant to grow properly. So I was interested in buying plant which gives beautiful flowers. He had many such plants. Many of them were creepers but I wanted to grow plant in a pot. So he showed me hibiscus plant. He had variety of hibiscus plant – one which produce white flower, one with red, pink and yellow respectively. I bought the hibiscus which produce red flower. I got it planted in a pot and kept the pot at one nice corner near our compound gate. Earlier I never saw a hibiscus flower in my life. And my hibiscus plant had only one tiny bud which took two-three days to produce a blooming flower. I was very excited to see a hibiscus flower. When I saw one I was totally surprised to see such a beautiful flower. It was really big and beautiful. Since the flower lasts nearly twelve hours or so. I thought of taking a picture of it. Here are some pictures that I took of the first hibiscus flower.

Get Well Soon Salman Khan

It’s really sad to know that Salman khan – The Bollywood Superstar is also suffering from Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN). I know how it feels when pangs of TN attack as I am also having the same problem since three and a half years. Salman khan has always been my favorite superstar ever since his first release. He has undergone a surgery for this and he needs some rest. As far as my experience of TN is concerned it’s really unbearable and I would like if he takes complete rest before starting work. Because this disorder comes under control quickly when good amount of rest is taken. I don’t know how much surgery will help him as my doctor had strongly advised me against going for a surgery. But since he has undergone a surgery in US and he must have selected the best of  Neuro-surgens. I hope and pray that he recovers and get well soon. After all, I am eager to see him in Bigg Boss 5 and his new film Ek Tha Tiger. Get Well Soon Salman Bhai.

Long Time...No Blogging !!!

It’s been a long long time since I last posted on my blog. It’s not because I didn’t had anything to write. But there were many things that didn’t allowed me to write. First of all, from December to February my Trigeminal Neuralgia started nagging me again. And this time it was more intense. Then after it came under control we all (i.e. my family) decided to shift to our new house. So we shifted to our new house in March. It took almost a month to get accustomed to a new place. Soon we realize that here there is a big problem of internet connectivity. Still I couldn’t get broadband connection here which I used in city. Now I have to content with the slow connection of mobile networks. I was so habituated to broadband’s super speed that when I had to use this slow connection I felt like throwing away my pc and mobile. It takes ages to open a web pages, bloggers and everything. It’s really frustrating.