Generalisation

Citing a few examples as a major trend seems to be the order of the day on the part of newspapers and periodicals. A national daily of ours regularly comes up with pathetically titled front page articles describing how things are changing. They even run a page dedicated to trends. And the number of examples to substantiate any suggested theory of theirs? Not more than an astonishing three! In a nation with a population of over one billion it takes more than three people or three instances to start or popularise a trend.

And if you thought it was all about quoting a few so-called experiences of anonymous individuals,names changed or otherwise,to fill up empty spaces in any daily,well,it doesn't end there. Some newspapers come up with the results of so-called recent studies conducted by hitherto unknown experts,which according to them reveal some things that we may not know about. Any insight into the number of people that they might have conducted the test,if there was one ever,may make us wonder at the lack of logic in generalising things. If a selected bunch of people respond to something in a similar way,does it necessarily imply that it should be the same with the entire population on this planet?

I will be surprised if something more than a smirk is elicited from the subscribers upon reading such trash. Now,I don't intend to follow the footsteps of those in the print media by quoting a few examples to back up my finding. Neither am i going to suggest that the fact i'm talking about is in itself a trend.

Trends,according to me,will fade in and fade out albeit what any media may try to portray. It's hardly four years since we saw something which was touted as the next best trend getting boomeranged resulting in its own sudden demise.