Saturday, January 08, 2005
Fame
Tennis Elbow- probably all cricket crazy Indians would respond to what this means by stating "Oh! This was what Sachin Tendulkar suffered from a few months back". I remember a front page artcle in a newspaper which explained everything about tennis elbow. There was also special sections devoted in the health columns of news papers about this physical injury. All this when Sachin was convalescing and missing many international matches. It was tennis elbow's rise to fame :).
Another word that's popular now is "Tsunami". Until 2 weeks back, many were ignorant and would not have known this to be a source of such destruction. Agreed that we did learn this in our school days in our Geography classes.So I did feel a tinge of nostalgia when there were news articles with pictures lifted right out of the text books explaining Tsunami. Today, pick up a newspaper and you will come across this word atleast 20 times in each news section. Even the entertainment section had names of movies that have been made on this topic. The sports section has news coverage of charity matches being held for the benefit of Tsunami victims and so on. Those of you who are looking for new challenges can count the occurence of Tsunami in any of the news papers in the past two weeks :).
Iam looking out for the next such ubiquitous word or phrase and wishing that it would bring some happiness this time.
Another word that's popular now is "Tsunami". Until 2 weeks back, many were ignorant and would not have known this to be a source of such destruction. Agreed that we did learn this in our school days in our Geography classes.So I did feel a tinge of nostalgia when there were news articles with pictures lifted right out of the text books explaining Tsunami. Today, pick up a newspaper and you will come across this word atleast 20 times in each news section. Even the entertainment section had names of movies that have been made on this topic. The sports section has news coverage of charity matches being held for the benefit of Tsunami victims and so on. Those of you who are looking for new challenges can count the occurence of Tsunami in any of the news papers in the past two weeks :).
Iam looking out for the next such ubiquitous word or phrase and wishing that it would bring some happiness this time.
# posted by Praveen @ 11:44 AM 
