Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online
Making sense of the good, bad and often strange trending topics online
Vanilla Twilight, a 2009 song by American electronic project Owl City, was a surprise trending topic over the past 24 hours. It's hard to say why, considering the lyrics - 'The silence isn't so bad, 'til I look at my hands and feel sad, cause the spaces between my fingers, are right where yours fit perfectly'u00a0-- could find a place on most cheesy greeting cards.
Then again, if the cheesy didn't have supporters, Ekta Kapoor wouldn't have a career. As one bright tweeter put it, maybe it was trending because people kept pointing out that it was trending. Another anomaly was Pawan Hans, the helicopter service company withu00a0-- how does one put this delicately + a track record that isn't exactly confidence-inspiring. Many decided to talk about it, and about Arunachal Pradesh CM Dorjee Khandu, after the remains of a chopper he was in were found following a four-day search. A certain Karthik Kumar had the last word: 'India doesn't need foreign armies to kill its leaders. Pawan Hans does the job remarkably well all by itself.'
The accident ushered another CM into the limelight. Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy, a.k.a. YSR, who died in a similar manner. Someone called Aroop Datta had an intriguing question: 'Is the Congress a doomed party? Khandu, YSR, Pilot and Scindia, all promising leaders, died in accidents. Not to forget Sanjay Gandhi!' Expect an hour-long programme devoted to this on some news channel soon.
Finally, 'One Thing I've Never Done.' The topic led to an outpouring of wishes, from 'travel to Italy' and 'run down the street naked' to 'catch Osama bin Laden.' My favourite was a guy called Yazeed Al-Jufairi. What he had never done, apparently, was 'kiss himself' on the lips. 'It seems impossible,' he admitted, 'but I'm Yazeed. Nothing is impossible.' I wish him luck.
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