March , 2009
On a Song
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Some of my earliest memories of election campaigns are of poster laden autorickshaws plying in my city, with loudspeakers blaring. Just like some of the cheap religious song albums, these campaigns also had remixed or rather rephrased and retuned versions of the latest chart busters. So you had songs that went like 'XX ka raaj bada mast mast', suno gaur se duniyawalon YY ko hi tum jitao' and so on and so forth. So it came as no surprise that this time it was going to be 'Jai ho'. Although for Gulzar fans like me it was almost sacrilege and it didn't help that the lyricist was upset with the tussle between the Congress and the BJP over the song. Also the fact that the Congress paid around 2 lakh dollars (according to the BBC) didn't sit well. Does the aam aadmi really need a song more than those 2....
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Kajal Iyer is a senior correspondent with CNN IBN. She is a gold medalist in Mass Communication from Symbiosis Institute of Media and communication and got placed from campus. It was the shows like Surabhi, The World This Week and regular reading of Sunday Op-ed pages that prompted her to consider journalism as a career. Prior to CNN IBN, she has also worked for newspapers like Times of India, Midday in Pune and the Gujarati eveninger Sanj Samachar in Rajkot. She covers the civic beat in Mumbai and is interested in the basic bijli, paani, sadak brand of journalism, but also loves to cover the ocassional court room drama. Her biggest assignment till date has been covering Nariman house during 26/11 attacks. Writing is a passion for her and so is old Hindi film music. She is a trivia enthusiast and loves to watch shows on Discovery and the History channel.
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