A new season has begun...with new dreams,higher hopes,bigger expectations and fear more than before...yes, fear, because now its not a new show anymore. Now people are expecting certain things from us. We ourselves have grown and matured over the past one year. And so the challenge is greater for the second season of Zindagi Live. What i have noticed in the past one year is that it is impossible to please each viewer all the time...if we talk about trauma, death, grief, there are some people who blame us for glorifying someone's tears...if once in a while in a festive mood we invite a star, again we are blamed for creating a platform for celebrities... What is important is that we need to realise that life is not one thing or the other. its not black or white. its a blend, a beautiful blend of so many things, so many moments, so many emotions...if we talk about failures, we also need to talk...

Last year, it was a July evening when the first ever News Television Awards were held at a five-star hotel in New Delhi... it was the same day that we had shot our first episode of Zindagi Live. After the shoot, I went to attend the awards ceremony because I was a nominee for the Best News Anchor Award. I knew I wouldn't win the award but being nominated with the likes of Vinod Dua and Ashutosh was an award in itself for me.... That evening I was sitting in the last row.... my director Swaroop was also there...I was dreaming and I suddenly asked him...."Swaroop, do you think Zindagi Live will get any nominations in the next years award function?". Swaroop, obviously to make me happy, said, "Of course it will!!!!" Although a talk show winning an award in its first year seemed like an impossible dream but I dared to dream.... and it doesn't cost you anything. Does it? I had...

30th Jan 2008. 8:30 am...An hour back, i got to know that Hina Goswami ji passed away last night..You might wonder who was Hina Goswami...no, she wasn't a politician, a page 3 celebrity or an actress. She was an old lady who lived in the senior citizens home Gharonda, in Chhatarpur, Delhi, and who came to Zindagi Live old age episode..... After the shoot, we had been in touch with her...infact, the Zindagi live team had celebrated Diwali at Gharonda...She was very happy that evening..we made her dance and that beautiful smile on the wrinkled face said it all..She was over-joyed... My next meeting with her in Dec end was bit strange. After 3 hectic schedules of Zindagi live, i took a 10 day break in Dec. I happened to visit a friend in Chhatarpur that day, and it suddenly struck that since i have come this far, let me go a little further and see hina ji as well....To my surprise, the...

I have always said and written one thing about Zindagi Live....that we wish to bring a difference to people's lives...we wish to touch the lives of as many people as we can...we wish to do something special for our guests. Now i want to share this with you all... A few days back, one of my episode producers Farheen Fatima called me up. She was very very excited. Farheen had produced the Aamir Khan show. And that day she got a call from Aamir's teacher Celine ma'am. Those of you have watched the show would know Celine ma'am is the teacher who came to Zindagi Live and Aamir was so happy to see her after 28 years....That day, Aamir was very happy. He thanked me for making him re-live his childhood memories and bringing his teachers' messages for him... Honestly, that time I wasn't sure if Aamir was genuinely touched or is it just a formality from a celebrity as usual...This time I...