Editor Unplugged Quotes

“American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald: ‘Show me a hero,’ he said, ‘and I will write you a tragedy.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Abuse can be laced with humour and made less toxic, almost acceptable. When Winston Churchill heard his long-term rival Clement Attlee had collapsed and been rushed to hospital, he said, ‘Nothing trivial, I hope.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“After the disastrous 1962 China war, a patriot wrote this graffiti on a wall, ‘Krishna Menon is a fool.’ He was hauled up in court and sentenced to fifteen years of imprisonment—one year for defacing public property and fourteen years for letting out state secrets!”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection to work.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is insanely and desperately drunk with a certain belief.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Quality loners are comfortable in crowds, it is the one-to-one relationship they recoil from.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“no more than six ‘original’ jokes exist. The rest are variations on a theme. You just change the time, place, country, characters and you have a contemporary version.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Comedy thrives on anxiety,’ says social historian David Crossland.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Sar zamin-e-hind par aqwaam-e-aalam ke firaaq Kaafile baste gaye, Hindustan bantaa gayaa”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“The principal reason for our channels overdoing the debate and discussion component in their evening schedule is its low cost.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“he wakes up at 4.30 a.m. and ‘personally accesses his mail, surfs and checks Google alerts’.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“most have feet of clay. Yet, they demand nothing less than total and absolute obeisance.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“David Frost’s wife, when asked if her husband was religious, said, ‘Oh, yes, he thinks he is God.’)”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“(Here it is important to emphasize that public interest is not the same as what is interesting for the public. Pornography may be interesting for the public but it is definitely not in the public interest.)”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“My forty-plus years as an editor give me the confidence to declare India as the leakiest democracy in the free world.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“One must never forget that journalists are among the most insecure people on earth with egos as big as footballs. And for some curious reason, the approval they hunger for is not from their peers or eminent ambassadors or high-ranking bureaucrats; the approbation they crave most highly is the one that comes from netas—who, as a tribe, they profess to despise.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me

“Happiness is as elusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it might come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those precious moments, for they will not come your way very often.”
― Vinod Mehta, Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me