Competition has always been perceived as a Good Thing. Take the airline industry in India, for example: there are tons of no-frills airlines; the bad ones have to improve if they to survive and all that crap. The same applies to the “regular” airlines (I swear I’ll stop flying Jet if they don’t improve in a few months; the only reason I fly them is because I have accumulated too many miles now).
I wish this whole competition-as-a-good-thing worked flawlessly everywhere. The other day I was just lazing around and then saw Mumbai Mirror lying somewhere. The front page had, in bold fonts and all that, something about one of their reporters in a police chase to trace two unidentified bags found at some place. And it had, making the reader heave an air of suspense-phrases, something like “turn the page to know what happened”. Surely you want to know what happened? Well, turns out the bags belonged to some member of Parliament. That was it. Really.
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