NDTV Imagine was better with The Unforgettables Tour featuring the entire Bachchan clan but with special Amit moments when he recited “Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein... “ like his heart was hammering out the words. Moments to cherish. And guess who’s coming to Doordarshan? Ram Dev. On DD National, every morning. That we see him wherever we go from every single news channel which contorts the news (joking!) to spirituals like Aastha, hasn’t deterred the national broadcaster from joining them on the mat. It’s all very healthy but there’s one question which doesn’t disappear after every expulsion of air with kapal bhati: are there no other yoga experts in the country who can perform on TV?

Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena: Harbhajan Singh and Mona Singh’s Ravana and Sita jodi was thoroughly enjoyable — almost a match for the Harbhajan and red cherry duet on Saturday. But the Australians weren’t happy with the latter and the Akal Takht was unhappy with the former. As they say, folks, problem kya hai? Can’t you simply — enjoy?

We don’t understand enough about the financial crisis to be able to comment on the fulsome advice being doled out by market analysts but for once, the tenor was lower than Placido Domingo’s. Yes, it was described as a ‘tsunami’, ‘financial apocalypse’, etcetera, etcetera but perhaps because India has not yet been hit as hard as the US, it was said without the usual panic-striking hysteria. For once, we were not immediately rushing for cover but listening to the likes of Udayan Mukherjee (CNN-IBN) tell us that distress selling would lead to sitting on cash — and you immediately wondered, how (un)comfortable is that? And if leftist economists like Jayati Ghosh were speaking with smug superiority (it’s the Left that didn’t let the government liberalise more and visit further ruin upon us) on the Big Fight (NDTV 24x7), their smugness was preferable to a great big depression.

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