From the Columns to blogs.

Everyone has sometime in their life played a role of a psychologist. And who else can be treated for free, apart from the poor needy friends calling you out when in trouble. Little we realize that we are not being asked for advice but just to lend ears.

Men certainly don’t enjoy this task of entertaining the way women do (no offence ladies). And I can see why agony aunts came to picture, I really wonder if ever a man wanted to be such a columnist!

Though I personally detest the agony aunt advices; such columns can still catch your attention and that’s what Pooja Bedi is doing for Femina magazine and Times of India (city editions). Being a columnist to such an outline she herself is a person with the most impossibly troubled life to which she has a rich and famous dad to make it all disappear. Though she doesn’t spare her father from being an example of someone who is dating a woman 15 years younger to him (I truly sympathise the readers).

I happen to come across certain columns (Time of India website) on relationships and a minute later I was shuffling from one to another topic, I couldn’t believe I was reading every possible column I thought I can relate to or found myself curious to. Mentally I knew the discussion were baseless and meant to create more hype than pacify the doubts. In addition the comments from readers brought shame to the writers and also to the website publishing those post and comments.

Undoubtedly a few columnists have no clue of what they want to convey or what exactly they are trying to claim and on what base. Indian columnist can be so irritating that they can be awarded for same. Major articles are so much inspired by the foreign land that they don’t even bother about the analysis they give over a particular topic; which is performed by some foreign university for their own people and henceforth one can’t compare two different countries whose people have extreme way of living.

Rather I would like following certain bloggers than any columnist. Because bloggers connect you to any nook and corner of the world with just the same thought of sharing the knowledge and observation, they don’t try to prove anything but come up with the storm that builds up in their mind – a common man’s mind.


- Jayshree