Saturday, May 24, 2008

the kingpin of asianet

Asianet indeed has a huge influence on kerala's tv-going public. which is really huge. In the intial years Asianet was not the firebrand that you see today. But of late Asianet is going into the 'evil inside' philosophy. They bring up controversial stories - keep it up on prime time - likw nothing else in the world matters - and then poof - the next controversy is up. Forget the old one. Who cares what really happens to the people involved .. or the victims invloved ... obviously Asianet doesnt give a damn .. they are just interested in it as long as it sells. The moment it goes off the selling point - they drop the story. If they dont get any controversies they try to create some by fuelling the politicians against each other on live conference calls.

Its been less than a week and Asianet has forgotten about the Swami fiasco. And other channels have followed suite. Wonder what made them do that now. Probably MP got invlolved when religious toes were twiddled. Well I never realised that the chariman of Asianet was a politician. Thats Rajeev Chandrashekhar, a Janata Dal(Secular) MP & FICCI president + ex-CEO BPL Mobile + now Chairman of Asianet

Going a bit back hes the intel pentium dude who set up BPL Mobile with apparent financing (dowry?) by his father-in-law TPG Nambiar. Well daddy-in-law took him to court for apparently cheating him out of BPL Mobile. Dunno what made daddy-o to pull out of the filing. Earlier daddy-in law & son-in-law had couple of sebi filings against them for insider trading with BPL. Lucky for him none came to light. Make no doubt that hes smart - infact hes certified IIT smart no doubt about it. Thats techie to enterprenuer to politician. Now thats called growth.


He's the man who battled for cricketer Dravid when he was to be axed. 'how nice of him'. As for his only concern last year as an MP from Karnataka was - believe it or not - only about the Gold Deposits in Orissa. (truth said I dint know much abt Orissa's gold deposits). Mebe he wants to setup AsiaOrissaNet in the gold mine. This year he asked for the Henderson Report (ol 1962 india china war stories). Looks like hes improving with the relate people skills - I'm an Indian.

For such a smart dude, his ex-bpl-employees described him as “impulsive, and irritable”, with weak people-management skills".Part of this should be true considering the way he reacted when Sunil Mittal called him a quitter.For such a big-shot he could'nt take a little dissing. Not sure how he felt Mallika Sarabhai said on his face to throw " ... 80% of those in Parliament into the sea". Guess he was in that 80%.

Pretty sure he was laughin his ass off at the employee when he sold his majority stake in BPL Mobile to Essar Group and pocketed 1600 crores. Thats when the flamboyant(what else can i call the man who has coupla beamer's, ferraris, jets .. lol .. much to the chagrin of his daddy-in-law; he gifted himself a lamborghini after the bpl mob sell-off... thats ... waaaaah ... boo-hoo how come i cant gift a lamborghini to myself... ahem) Chandrashekhar bought Asianet (51% stake) & he was also investing into Vizhinjam Port project,Kingfisher, Air India or Indian MRO facilities. Apparently it was about this time that he got the backing of all parties in Karnataka though he has never been in the public eye(some of the karnataka political opposers consider him as an outsider as the excuse for being against him - strangely no-one bothered abt how he became a politician overnight). Havta say that was a lil suspiscious. Proof that money can get you anything.


Now with a politician heading the largest Media & News Conglomerate in Kerala - how long will it take for Asianet to turn to pure evil.


(Once you become a politician, the first thing you do as an Indian is to apply for a PHD in how to fuck up your country)

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