The second week at the NDTV Media Institute has turned my
curiosity to apprehension. I try to put on my best face and give life as much
as I get from it.
Yet another week passes by with a
delay in work at my house-to-be. I wonder how it would affect my assignments. Moving
out from my guest house seems impossible though most of my things have been
shifted already. My mom left on Sunday morning as her stay-back overtime was
causing a lot of cash loss. But questions of my stuff which should be brought back
to the guest house and moved again, maybe even next weekend, despite the expenses,
or how my clothes can be washed or how I would cook, all throw me into a tizzy.
Broadcast Journalism for the masses
is about rushing to meet deadlines and my journals do help me, as I said last
week, by reflecting a milestone of where I am. Suddenly the guest house seems
all the more lonely this Sunday, with the sound of the fan swirling and the
clock ticking. Relax but hurry, they seem to say.
Throughout the week, memories
bloomed of Rome and home –of a time when after watching ‘supersize me’, my
friend ended up eating at Burger King instead of McDonalds. Life circled around
Fashion like in ‘the September Issue’. My renowned refusal to dance in the past
years was challenged when theatre workshop’s Mr.Mansukhani got me to move my
body to the music.
As the second week comes to an
end, NDTV’s red-coloured theme becomes familiar to my brain and I feel a push
to accelerate my speed – in my assignments, house and against time. After having
packed and moved my clothes on Saturday and after a whole morning of cleaning
the windows of the new house, tears roll down with anxiety of how I would make it
to 50 or at least 35 news offices. As I walk back to the guest house with a sweater
for the next day, I find the gate locked and wait outside for an hour. My
internet runs slow and my phone goes dead. Surviving on curd this day, my hope
is to settle down as soon as possible so that my best goes out to my work.
Here I am, still determined, to toil
as strong as I can and discover my place.
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