Comments on: Dial One aur Jeeto Special

By: Prashant Mullick's Weblog

Prashant Mullick's Weblog — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:25:51 +0000

Where is the Science in Indian Mass Media?

Just found out from Harini that one of the very popular TV game shows in India recently had a numerologist as a special guest on their show. It is absolutely baffling how some dude who makes his living selling lies and mis-information to the public ca…

By: gargi

gargi — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:31:23 +0000

No. the channel hasn’t put up the website.
it is radio on television. call, answer questions win prizes.

you won’t believe how popular numerolgoy and other such mumbo jumbo is. there are shows dedicated to people who read tarot, numerology and so on.

as far as science is concerned nothing at all. news covers it a bit but badly. we get nat geo, discovery and the rest of the foreign channels with good science content. and many of them are dubbed into hindi or tamil.
but nothing Indian. The GoI had planned to launch a science channel called jigyasa but it is being handled by bureaucrats.
nice to see you back on this site.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:56:31 +0000

I’ve never watched this show. Does it have its own website?

Intriguing that pseudo-sciences like numerology are this popular in Indian media. I wonder what Indian media is doing to bring good science to the masses instead?

By: Sriram Venkitachalam

Sriram Venkitachalam — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:41:52 +0000

I wanna make up some weird gods, put it in a book and bury it. then there’l be some more weird gods to the list.

By: apostlejohn

apostlejohn — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:45:34 +0000

This is a fun link — thanks!