Friday, December 09, 2005

Of Cyclones and Nomenclature

What is with the public...Katrina, Rita, Pyaar, Baaz, Fanoos....no logic anywhere there and why first women and the illogical words to refer to these scary and natural disasters...is it an attempt to bring some humour in so we don't shiver like we should at the mere mention of these events or is it to trivialise them altogether? whatever the intention, since it's not in the public domain my angst is more than justified...I mean when I hear a headline that say Rita headed to New York...if i was not one of those happening journalists or someone who was in the area or someone who watched news so closely he could tell you the fabric the anchor was wearing... i would simply imagine some famous person was headed to that town...a follower of Bill Gates or maybe the next Mother Teresa in the making....and for that very same reason maybe tragedy should be treated with as much respect as we deem other events....

And it seriously smacks of bad creativity too....

anyways i have a blanket dislike to all such "funny, creative and apt" names....

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