So, a week or two ago, this guy who does stand-ups and Youtube-bits went ahead and made a video that poked fun at Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketer) and Lata Mangeshkar (Singer).

Here’s a link to video that I found: https://youtu.be/AIo38bgveoY

Anyway, if you’ve watched the video, you might agree that it doesn’t really seem funny. Did it make you laugh out loud? It didn’t make me laugh, for sure.

Having said that, did I find this video offensive? Absolutely not. This fucking video caused an outrage on the social media. This 2-minute long clip was pretty much what every news channel in India could talk about. There were real problems that still needed to be addressed, however, the Indian media decided to give this issue the limelight. A video that affects nobody! Fucking nobody!

Apparently, Tendulkar and Mangeshkar were reported to be unaffected by the video. Of course they were! They said they didn’t really care. Sure, it wasn’t funny, to them either but they didn’t fucking care! Why, in God’s name, was every Indian tabloid and news channel reporting this? It was a 2-minute long video at some comedian’s sad attempt at humor. This was an absolute non-story!

That brings me to the next part of my rant; how the fuck do we Indians call ourselves tolerant? The sheer irony when Aamir Khan called India intolerant, and our people lost their shit and asked him to leave the country because they felt he was wrong about us. The very outrage just justified his statements. The reactions would only make you shake your head.

Coming back to this little video; have we really nothing more pressing to worry about in our lives? The Indian media only reports such non-stories because this is what our public wants. You can’t entirely blame our media. Sure, they’re incompetent and TRP-hungry in their own ways, but shit like this only sells because our people like to buy it.

Why could we not ignore this video and move on to the more important matters we have in our lives? Twitter went into a goddamned meltdown for days because this guy uploaded a fucking video! It wasn’t even funny, for crying out loud. The AIB roast? That was funny, this video was not.

Somebody help me out here. How is India supposed to grow as a society and consequently as a nation when something like this gets prime-time importance?

Again, it’s ironic that I’m ranting out at people who don’t affect me in any way, who in turn are ranting at people who don’t affect them in any way.

Let me know what you guys feel.

Cheers!