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| "It was supposed to be a serious line but it has become a comic line," Arnab Goswami complains to R J Mandy of Red FM, without raising his voice. (video below) |
July 31, 2016, NewsCrunch
If you have noticed, Arnab Goswami, the man who coined the famous phrase, The nation wants to know, does not use it anymore.
His often repeated phrase The nation wants to know spawned a storm of memes and spoofs.
In an interview with R J Mandy for Red FM, Arnab Goswami says that is precisely why he stopped using it.
"It was supposed to be a serious line but it has become a comic line," he complained, without raising his voice.
He notes that the phrase got so wildly popular he became self-conscious while using it. He rightly says wherever he goes he finds people saying The nation wants to know. In the movies they say it, they sell t-shirts with those words, he says.
So, now he says, country wants to know or I want to know, so that he would not be misunderstood.
There is also an explanation on how the famous phrase originated. During interviews, Arnab Goswami felt that the questions he was raising ought to have been asked by people or nation, and hence came up with the phrase.
Speaking mostly in Assamese he described himself as a ‘normal family man’ who shocks people at social functions by not shouting.
I am actually a ‘good listener’, says Arnab Goswami.