Devil’s Advocate (n) – One who argues against a popular cause or position, not as a committed opponent but simply to make people discuss and consider it in more detail.
I became a big fan of Karan Thapar after he starts to play the role of Devil’s Advocate. Every sunday I eagerly waits to watch the programme in CNN-IBN (usually airs @ 8:30 pm). A class program in which he interviews top-notch personalities (politicians, more-often-than-not ) on burning issues. I just love the way he makes fool of the interviewee. He always started asking simple questions and pull contradictory words from their mouth. He makes them really uncomfartable on their stands by asking embarrassing questions augmented with pukka proof. Everytime I watch the programme, I couldn’t help myself from correlating it with the famous interview scene in the film Mudhalvan.
Last week it was finance minister P.Chidambaram, talks on what basis the ruling government proposes reservation for OBCs in higher education. Really a good one. Click here to read the full interview. Three weeks back it was HRD minister Arjun Singh on the same topic and was undoubtedly the famous one of the series. Arjun Singh was all at sea on it. Click here to read the full interview and just know how stupid our ministers can be.
Karan Thapar surely knows the art of interviewing and he rocks!!!
Cheers!!!
