The AIR program – Lunch Box – today was more of a frustrating interview than a serious conversation. I have started feeling that radios, televisions or newspapers (mainstream media in general) is more worried about filling the slot or the space and is not much concerned about the cause.
Today I barely had less than 20 minutes (if I cut down the songs and the words of the RJ) to talk about a 92 day trip. The talk was interrupted by songs every 3-4 minutes. There was not much of a coherence in my talk. After going through this blunder of talking about a serious issue like water management in the midst of some silly Kannada songs, I don’t know whether I should ever accept such requests to participate in a radio/television chat shows. May be I will stick to my plan of going to my previous companies and talking to my colleagues about the trip than wasting my time on ventures like these – if you ever have to tell stories, complete them!
Listen to the broadcast – 26th March 2009 (edited)
(Streamed MP3 Audio, 27min 56 sec, 24kbps, 22kHz, Mono, 4.75MB):
Download the program (MP3, 27min 56 sec, 24kbps, 22kHz, Mono, 4.75MB)
CSP,
Put it up on Kannada Water Portal as well.
btw, listened to it. But missed the songs. You’ve spoken well! and used good Kannada. It cannot be a waste of time. More of this should happen, really. You must’ve easily reached thousands of listeners today and that makes the difference.
amazing information… but tip of an iceberg
BTW need some info on GPS. Can you please send me your mail id?
Chennagittu kano prog!! Kannu muchikondu kelidre.. neenu alli studio nalli kayyi addistta matadiddu ella nanu matte Kusuma oohisikondvi.. Kusuma’s comment “Onde samane matadiddane”.. adukke nanu helide.. “adukke hadugalu hakodu madhyadalli” anta..
Adu hagalla hero, adu live show. Recorded program alla. So matadta irbekadre, madhya madhya sikkapatte haadu haakidre, continuity sigode illa… 58 min program – adralli nan matadiddu 20 minutes ashte…. Neerina bagge 20 min hege salutte? I feel that the song duration could hv been reduced a bit. Since I took out all the songs, continuous agi matadta ideeni ansutte.
@Prashanth
Have sent you my email ID via email
@hpn
Will do
Hey Sharad,
Kudos…
Keep going… It was kind of a soul stirring stuff to listen to you talking. And your kannada was amazing.
- Priya
Thanks Priya. I feel that the MR/Mukta team must be taken through a complete half day presentation, soon.
Hello Sri. Sharada Prasad,
It was a nice interview. I am regular reader of Water Portal-Kannada! Please participate in such programs more and more. I can well imagine how frustrating it must have been for you. Perhaps you can convince the producers to have a pre-recorded interview but also have you there to answer any questions from the listeners! The message about Water should reach everyone and media should be exploited for this purpose. People need to know there is more to life than watching some stupid shows or listening to inane things!
Keep up the good work!
shaamala
Way to go dude!!
I agree with you.. the time dedicated was too small for you to talk. but never the less.. its still is a small step towards a bigger one.
@shaamala Oh! Tumba santosha madam. It was a live show actually. I edited it out to omit songs and ads.
Nice interview. Information sakaththaagide. GPS tools bagge bareethira ankondideeni
@shivu – Sure saar. Bareyonante.
Neat interview CSP. Since it is a radio show you should’ve expected all the music and maybe ads, and figured out that you cannot talk to them about your everything comprehensively but only give out the highlights. You cannot discard the importance of these media just because they do not express seriousness for a cause.