Deccan Chronicle is a shame to Hyderabad!!!

by **Suchita Vasu** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:00 pm

Hi everyone! Most of you would have read what Deccan Chronicle wrote about the Bottles & Chinmey\'s episode yesterday. In case you did not, here is the article: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- \"Bottles and Chimneys served 551 drinks, all alcoholic, to the 100 teenagers who came there last Wednesday for the party hosted by Abhishek Jain and Ubaid. Yes, Sanjay Chimnani, owner of the pub, who has been making outraged noises that Ananay Bahuguna, son of IGP Aruna Bahuguna, has not been arrested (for the alleged brawl with the guards) while he was, served the kids — barring 29 who appear to have settled for fruit punch — eight drinks per teen! 

The bill says that 175 Bacardi white, 175 Smirnoff vodkas, 125 Blenders Pride, 18 Vodka Collins, 10 Blue Lagoons, 25 Screwdrivers, 23 Burning Sams and 1 Beer were served. The only food served were 40 thread paneers, 40 ginger potato, 40 sesame shrimp toast and 17 dexilled Ro-Hanz. 

This is evidence provided by Chimnani. Obviously the pub’s sights were so focussed on the money they would make — which the bill says is Rs 78,990 — they lost sight of the fact that they were serving over half a bottle of booze per youngster. In fact, Bottles & Chimneys, claims that Ananay and friends walked away without paying the bill. Is it possible that the teenagers felt they were being ripped off and that’s how the brawl erupted?
 
Youngsters, especially boys, are always upto masti, break rules and try to throw their weight around only because they get a kick out of it. And in any case these teenagers had come to the pub not the princi’s office and were bound to be boisterous. This is a worldwide phenomenon.
 
Even the President of United States, George Bush, couldn’t escape this experience as a parent. His twin daughters were caught more than once for drunken driving and one of them was even sentenced to do community service!
 
The attempt by the pub owners to paint them as uncouth criminals is laughable.
 
There’s no need to get after them, call for press conferences and whine about whether a breathalyser test was done on the boys. What does Chimnani expect? That the kids would have downed lemonade when his helpful bartenders were plying booze?
 
Also, Chimnani’s aggressive stand in this fracas, let’s face it, has given his pub lots of mileage. The kids he is trying to drag in are not the beneficiaries of his tirade.
 
So it does make one wonder what the brouhaha is all about. When he should be thankful for is that his pub was not filled with vomit considering the youngsters were plastered according to his own account!\" -----------------------------------------------------------------------

 I don\'t know what kind of illiterate people run this newspaper, and it is a shame that this kind of immature brains shape the whole damn city\'s thought processes! I\'m sure that the \"Our HC Bureau\" that is credited with this piece of news is one of the big ones behind the newspaper who has personal equations with Mrs. Bahuguna, the IG of police who is also the mother of that kid. 
Firstly, DC says that teenagers will be teenagers. Sure thing - we\'d like to see how the writer reacts to a teenager eve-teasing his/her sister/daughter. Teenagers would like to do that too very frequently, right? It\'s because they\'ve seen the cops screw the happiness of those who do that most keep away from it. In this specific case, if this kid, Ananay Bahuguna, had been bashed up in a lock-up, it would have been a great lesson to the rest of the city - that the friggin\' IG\'s kid isn\'t spared for misdemeanor. DC mentions George Bush\'s daughters doing the same. The illogical write-up tries to cleverly brush away the fact that George Bush\'s daughters had to serve time for what they did through community service and in rehab, while that is the primary difference between that incident and this, between what happened there and what DC is advocating should happen here (in case you missed the points, sweeties, DC is saying that these are just teenagers who will be teenagers, they cannot be treated as criminals, and the whole thing should be ignored). NO newspaper in the US condoned the act of the Bush twins - the US doesn\'t have such crappy newspapers because its citizens are educated and militant enough that they don\'t tolerate crap, unlike us Hyderabadis. And that\'s what transparency and equality in the US are all about - the President\'s daughters aren\'t spared. A measly IG in Hyderabad can get her defence published in prime media space by the editors of the city\'s leading newspaper. Then, the greater point - that teenagers can be pardoned. Grab these points: 
1. \"Is it possible that the teenagers felt they were being ripped off and that’s how the brawl erupted?\" 
2. \"And in any case these teenagers had come to the pub not the princi’s office and were bound to be boisterous. This is a worldwide phenomenon.\" 
The person who wrote this article wouldn\'t clear a logical reasoning test for platypuses, and he writes articles that several lac people read. Buddy, unless you can\'t do basic additions, you can calculate what your bill is likely to be when you order - the rates are always on the menu. The question of feeling ripped off doesn\'t arise AFTER you\'ve had whatever you wanted. Then, teenagers going to pubs and creating scenes is a worldwide phenomenon, is it? Listen, dunderhead, first of all teenagers aren\'t allowed in pubs in most civilized countries. And if they go, they stay quiet, so they may go unnoticed. Bush\'s daughters\' is an isolated case that shot into prominence mostly due to who he was (the kids are constantly spied upon by the press for any good snippets), not because they deliberately kicked up a ruckus anywhere. 

Most importantly, crimes are crimes whoever commits them. And teenagers are the last ones who should be spared - that\'s the age when you learn lessons fastest. If you taste the full hand of the law when you are 16 or 17, you are much less likely to commit crimes later. And if you get away at that age, you have a great precedent to encourage you for the rest of your life. You can give out a lesser punishment as a first offence, perhaps, but you don\'t let him go. 

Actually, all this is plain academic discussion - all of us know the actual purpose behind that article. Aruna Bahuguna is a friend of DC and the Chimnani guy isn\'t. Period. We all know how unbiased this newspaper is - it is the same newspaper that criticizes Chandrababu Naidu for \"always begging the center for funds\", when we should be glad he\'s doing his best to get money for us. Sheesh, they would criticize Naidu for shaving his beard off if he ever did it. It is nobody\'s case that the pub owner was a saint. It is just the argument that the kids can be condoned for what they did, and the logic behind that argument, that makes my blood boil. This is editorial content that makes a case that kids who booze, refuse to pay up and beat up people in a pub be let off. Sheesh, these guys are the editors of a newspaper, can you believe it? On the one hand you have people like N Ram and Dilip Padgaonkar, and on the other you have these! Yuck! I request all Hyderabadis to post their feelings here and rebel against the paper. I\'d have ideally written this letter to the newspaper, but imagine DC publishing this! LOLOLOLOLOL!!! If they had the class to be able to publish such stuff, they wouldn\'t have written the above article in the first place. And if they had the tolerance to accept criticism, they would have to devote 30 pages every day to such letters - half the stuff in DC will routinely get castigated. It\'s an insult to Hyderabad\'s intelligence that a paper like that leads the pack.

by **Learner** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 4:00 pm

Thanks for your time and effort in putting up this message. I certainly agree with you, DC should start to think seriously about this, but please send that letter to DC also.

I will review when my next DC subscription is due. Everybody, lets wake DC up.

by **Purushothama** » Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:56 pm

DC is a rubbish paper only useful as a guide to cinema goers. For the last several decades it has not grown from it\'s image as mouth piece of congress wallas! I never read this paper. It has good use as packing meterial for a sweetmeet shop. I am not amused about the above negative reporting and encouraging big wig kids. This will encourage those brats to go for bigger kills.

by **Anil** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 4:45 am

Totally second it. One of the lousiest papers I ever read. Only plus point (if that can really considered) is its 2 sheet cinema page. Simply put - ultimate yellow journalistic crap! The most unfortunate thing is that many of us equate it with everything and anything Hyderabadi! We badly need a vernacular English daily.

by **Faheem** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 5:24 am

Doesn\'t Newstime publish from Hyd? Just a thought... maybe Eenadu should be published in English - or are they the same guys? I know Eenadu has grown so much in recent yrs...

by **Kumar** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 5:50 pm

Question: Ye..DC... DC... Kya Hai...Ye DC... DC? 
Answer: DC Ka Matlab... BC... BC........... BC... BC(Before Christ) 

Undoubtedly DC is the lousiest paper on earth. They carry some shitty stories as their lead and hype it up like hell, while Hindu and Times manage to carry some decent stuff daily which are generally informative and entertaining. 

DC is such a rotten paper that I don't even want to think about it. My Grandfather always used to tell me to go through the Hindu newspaper to become a better person in life and to learn some decent English. A strict NO to even have a glance at DC.

Like Faheem suggested I would love to see some Telugu newspaper like Eenadu taking over DC and publishing some good stuff which is brainy. Bye the bye can I know who the editor of this so called newspaper - Deccan Chronicle (DC)... is it by any chance M J Akbar or Kalyan Ji Anand Ji??????

by * » Thu Apr 10, 2003 10:07 pm

can anything be done abt such things....answer is no!!..so i don care!!...

by **sharon** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:04 am

i guess dc cant even qualify to be called toilet paper!!but yes its the cheapest and most vulgar porn stuff u can get for about 3 bucks openly on the streets and even delivered right to your homes..the hindu is streets ahead on any day..even the toi doesnt come anywhere near the hindu..!!

by **ShyamPrasad** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:21 pm

First of all any news paper covering this issue should through light on how any of the pubs are allowing the teenagers to booze. But not many people got their thinking on those lines. That\'s the sad part.
Talking about the quality of DC, I have decided long time ago that it\'s a phamplet rather than a news paper.

by W » Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:56 am

I third it ! its one of lousiest of the newspapers that I ever came across in my long lifetime. Whenever we NRI\'s need to get some info on hyd. we get to go to deccan.com and it inevitably leaves us furious.. yet we gottogo, coz\' there is no other newspaper which caters to hyd. Please help ! Eenadu/Hindu/Times/etc

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