Dhoni’s fuel price rise…

Two days ago (the day before the Bandh for fuel price rise)  my father over heard a conversation between a auto driver and a potential passenger for the auto driver, here’s how it went.

The passenger wanted to go to Adayar from Madipakkam and as usual the auto driver asked for a very high price for the ride and they had a heated conversation and when the passenger asked the driver why its so high the reason the passenger gave was fuel price rise and the passenger shot back that the government has revoked the fuel price rise. Hearing this my father rushed home and told me about this and we both watched the news channel’s for any news of that sort.

We soon realised the passenger was bluffing the auto driver as there were no news of the government revoking the price rise, but there was another interesting news on all news channels M.S.Dhoni was getting married.

It was very interesting to see what all news channels were reporting, unfortunately for them they were not allowed anywhere near the ceremony so they had to content with all the people who were going in and out.

People who were interviewed were florist who brought the flowers for the marriage, they asked him what flowers he has brought,  how many vehicles did he use to bring the flowers (seriously?).

Then came the horse all the camera person and the reporters were so excited seeing the decorated horse and then they interviewed the man who was in charge of the horse.

Then the phoned the most important person in the marriage ceremony as he was very busy to come in person to give the interviews, the priest. he was asked what ceremonies were planned for the marriage (at this point I seriously wished the priest to say that Dhoni is supposed to tie the knot) and there were several others who were interviewed like the shop owner who sold the attires for the bride and groom etc.

All the time watching these news channels covering Dhoni’s marriage I thought, they were doing all this silly stuffs because they could not get access to the actual ceremony and it presented them with a opportunity to claim exclusivity, but if they were allowed to the ceremony I cannot imagine what they would have done to claim the exclusivity.