Indian Institute of Foreign Trade 2012 Solved Paper

In the first paragraph the author says, 'Not many people saw it coming. It had seemed that the time for Kaun Banega Crorepati had come and gone. This column argued as much a few years ago, when Shah Rukh Khan took over the reigns of the show. He did well enough, but it still seemed that the time for the genteel game of knowledge had passed. There was too much blood in reality television, and KBC simply did not have enough platelets for it. It had no backbiting intrigue, it lacked a cast of almost- losers and missed the low-life loquaciousness of other reality shows, and nothing ever needed to be beeped out on it, a sure touch that it was out of touch with the times.'
From this we can conclude that the author believed that the time for KBC is over.
We can also conclude that the author believed that the show was too refined to compete with other reality shows. Although the author says that Shah Rukh Khan did well but there is no evidence to support that the author believed that Shah Rukh Khan as the show host would take it to new heights.
Also, there is no evidence to support that the author believed that the show’s viciousness was leading it, to its end