Small and medium stories, essays, novels, and poems extended the volume of the Eid editions to one thousand pages. Colourful covers and advertisements made them attractive.

I was eagerly awaiting the outcome of the print and visual media.

I bought a few copies of the weeklies, browsed through internet editions of few and off and on watched many of the dramas and serials on my home TV.

These flamboyant writers are always critical about politics, governance and social ills. The pitch of their voice, harshness of their speeches, are always in the extreme.

Therefore, my expectations, my senses were lined up for the same theme in their works. But to my utter surprise, other than silly inconsistent love stories, out of the family fictions, nothing was there. One can find no representative qualities in terms of pleasure of reading/watching.

If you put this against what they have been preaching, rubbing their shoulders with their mentors throughout the year, is pure nonsense.

So we can easily conclude that only under the patronage of the business mentors in the media and under the political mentors on the podiums, these celebrities are only doing "what the sponsors are asking for."

This is the very fundamental reason why the civil society is so weak and ineffective.