subhash jha on rajeev and time bomb

Sania Mirza was ill at ease talking on Aaj Tak on Thursday night. That could be because the correspondent who spoke to her appeared to be more nervous than she was. He asked her how it felt to be compared with Sachin Tendulkar. Sania protested about them being in two different sports.

I agree. It's like comparing Sonia Gandhi with Jaya Bachchan. I sincerely feel correspondents need to get more decorous. The same goes for the soaps which seem to have lost their ability to shock. Last week on Star's Kahiin To Hoga, Kashish's new suitor barged into the venue of her dead husband's barsi and proposed to her loudly arguing, "Does it matter? Would it have made a difference if I had proposed to you two months later?"

Er, is that a question or a statement of premature senility? Interestingly Rajiv Khandelwal who used to play Sujal on Kahiin To Hoga is now the self-important secret agent on Zee's Time Bomb. In spite of all the hype this show never took off. Not for me at least. Its attempts to harness anxious energy through political espionage seem feeble.