Two girls, employee of Cognizant fell into a manhole. Cognizant is a well known company in Z-city. It’s a pleasant evening of 1st June 2009. It’s around 10:00 PM. The girls had fallen around 8:00 PM.The two girls are identified as Lakshmi Seth and Swapnil Arora, a resident of Q-locality. It has been told by sources that Lakshmi Seth is married and Swapnil Arora is unmarried and they stay together.They came to Café Coffee Day in Swapnil’s car to charge their cell phones as there was no electricity at their home. How they fell into the manhole is yet to be known. The rescue team arrived in 1 hour after they fell and the team members are trying hard to pull them up. Both their parents have been informed and we are trying to establish connection with them. Lakshmi’s husband has been notified too.
Both the girls have shown a lot of courage by not screaming and maintaining their calm. This is the fourth incident in India where someone is trapped inside a manhole.
Experts and the employees of Café Coffee Day say this manhole was covered by a very thin sheet of tin and probably they both stepped on it.
Isn’t this a callous behavior shown on the part of Z-city Municipal Corporation (ZMC)? They open the manholes for their work and forget to close it properly. A representative from ZMC is still to arrive. Meanwhile let’s talk to an employee of CCD, Mr. Avinish Khanna.
TV Correspondent (TV-C): Mr. Khanna, did you see the girls falling?
Avinish Khanna (AK): No, but we heard them falling.
TV-C: So, what did you do?
AK: We rushed immediately to the spot and saw them inside.
TV-C: What did you do next?
AK: I asked one of my colleagues to go and inform our boss as we didn’t have any number where we could contact.
TV-C: So who informed the rescue team?
AK: My boss did.
TV-C: Is he here?
AK: Not yet.
TV-C: Since when has this manhole been like this?
AK: Since almost a year.
TV-C: And no one complained about it?
AK (guilty face): Not that I know of.
TV-C: Well one last question; why didn’t you ever complained about it?
AK (even more guilty now): I never stepped on it and hence didn’t know it was dangerous.
TV-C: Thank you Mr. Khanna.
AK: My pleasure.
So, after exchanging a few questions, with Mr. Avinish Khanna, we found out that even the citizens around have not paid any attention to this.
So who is to be blamed; ZMC, the citizens of Z-city or the two girls who are stuck in a stinky manhole waiting to be rescued.
With cameraman Sunil Joshi, Anjali Kumar, Star News.
BREAKING NEWS: The manhole is in bad condition since 1 year.
BREAKING NEWS: ZMC is responsible.
BREAKING NEWS: Citizens turn a blind eye.
BREAKING NEWS: Rescue team has arrived.
BREAKING NEWS: Two girls in manhole since 2 hours; not rescued yet.
BREAKING NEWS: Rescue team has thrown a thick rope.
BREAKING NEWS: Swapnil will be removed first from the manhole.
BREAKING NEWS: Should Swapnil be removed first or Lakshmi. SMS your views by typing RESCUE [Lakshmi]
Sansanikhej Vardat
BREAKING NEWS: 2 ladkiyan manhole me mili gayee.
BREAKING NEWS: Lakshmi aur Swapnil phone charge karne aaye the.
BREAKING NEWS: Cell phone charge karna mehenga pada.
BREAKING NEWS: Lakshmi ki shaadi ho chuki hai to apne pati se alag kyon hain? (hahahaha)
SMS your views on this by typing Lakshmi [your views]
BREAKING NEWS: Lakshmi ke pati Nokia Siemens Network, G-city mein karyarat hain.
BREAKING NEWS: Apke saamne sabse pehle; 2 ladkiyan manhole mein gir gayee hai.
BREAKING NEWS: Do ladkiyon ke muh par kalik put gayee.
BREAKING NEWS: Manhole mein gir kar muh kaala hua.
BREAKING NEWS: Ye vardaat Z-city mein hui hai. Z-city Municipal Corporation ke adyaksh abhi tak vardaat par pahunche nahi hain.
BREAKING NEWS: Dono ladkiyon to jyada chot nahi aaye hai.
BREAKING NEWS: Phone charge karne CCD aaye the. Dono ke phone discharged the.
BREAKING NEWS: Nokia aur Motorola ke phones hain.
BREAKING NEWS: Battery kis phone ki jyaya reliable hai? SMS BATTERY [NOKIA]
BREAKING NEWS: Maruti Zen mein aayee thi dono ladkiyan.
BREAKING NEWS: Ladiyon ne manhole se dosti kar li.
BREAKING NEWS: 2 ladkiyan hain. Z-city se seedhe.
BREAKING NEWS: Dono ke gharwaalon ko bata diya gaya hai. Gharwaale aane ke koshish mein.
BREAKING NEWS: Ticket nahi mil pa rahi hai.
BREAKING NEWS: Lakshmi ke Pati ke reactions pata nahi chal paaye hain.
Lakshmi ke pati dukhi honge ya khush. SMS Lakshmi [dukhi] or [khush] to 57476 to send your opinion.
Sigh! A near miss to fame. We would have made a BREAKING NEWS and would have basked in its glory for I-don’t-know-till-when. But as I stepped on the tin sheet my alert brain (pat-on-the-back) responded and I jumped off and so did Swapnil; she was also on the edge of the manhole.
Had we fallen into the manhole, sigh!
7 comments:
Awesome...A true picture of cheap journalism happening nowadays!!!!
black humour...well crafted...
u've shown the mirror,ALAS!the media things it looks too gorgeous to look into it!!
well you escaped the manhole but I ran the risk of falling off my bean bag with my laptop in tow....well written and HILARIOUS!!
Hehe.. too good! And I cant agree more of the state of journalism these days. They should stop these 24 hour news channels concept. Where will they get news throughout the day?? they have to look into manholes :) awesome!
u scared the hell outta me.. was halh way thru the blog n looking franticly for ur number.
gud one, gre8 humor....prince ki yaad aagayee
amazing..rotfl...dats wat i call sarcasm + humour in tons..
Hilarious.. very enjoyable read..true picture of the kind of news the indian viewers love
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