Indian television news is full of tragedies and the rest of it is full of ads. The ads are unique to the Indian mind set - shampoo and oil ads for long healthy hair, car ads which entice the audience with family values and eternal love, pan masala ads that proclaim authenticity to royal antecedents, noodle ads that vie with each other to be more popular and the latest entry is of course, all products of Baba Ramdev.
The news tags are the ones that are so heartbreakingly tragic - gangrape and murder, drought and death, farmer loans and suicides, young upcoming career girls committing suicide after abortion, the live-in paramours getting away with murder, little babies falling into abandoned borewells, and the latest is that of death caused by random shooting-in-the-air during wedding baaraats.
Assuming that I am an Indian male of marriagable age, (panning all Indian males, urban and rural), I will have watched porn videos, I will have courted at least one female, I will have fantasized about the girl next door, i will have surely proposed to and hounded at least one or more girls using my mobile and yet when I choose my life partner, she should be as virgin as untrodden snow. Mind you, the girl should NOT have conversed with any boy, she should NOT have been in any type of friendship with a boy, she should NOT be a normal female until I, the eligible bachelor, walk into her life. It is of no consequence to me that I had indulged in all the previous chapters, the girl I marry should be an ignoramus and simple minded, until I conquer her. Fie on her if I discover that she had been in any type of emotional relationship with any male, I shall discard her and banish her from my life and my thoughts, forever.
And it is this mind set that makes Indian girls tremble with fear of character malignment, because all Indian boys are incorrigible.
Live-in relationships are a big let down for the females. It is a ruse by males to get sex and service for free, with no strings attached. Poor, foolish, females, looking for love makes you compromise on too many fronts. These men format live-in relationships for their own convenience, to be able to get away without any backlash. The female is often left with no face, an illegitimate child or an abortion in the bargain. These tragedies highlight how males persuade, hound and entice girls to fulfill their male hormonal needs.
The latest tragedies of baraat shootouts are also male oriented. Frustrated males showing a Macho side by shooting in the air....please go shoot the rats that plague the local train stations and do a public service. How is it that so many persons possess illicit revolvers?
A certain politician goes to the police station and files a complaint to get me arrested if I request him not to block the bus stop with his cars. Please, dear politicians, use your man power and your political power, to do good and make the gun weilders surrender their illegal weapons. You can do it very effectively as most of these goons would be in your entourage, I'm sure.
About the bore well tragedies, the simplist solution would be to compel each and every borewell company to map out their workings of the past ten years and then let them show photographic proof that all have been covered.
Lastly, I shall confess that my favourite news anchor is Mr. Arnab Goswami. More power to you sir, to have the platform and the guts to speak out for what is right. This is so that the television viewing is a little more rational with him doing the talking on talk shows.
The news tags are the ones that are so heartbreakingly tragic - gangrape and murder, drought and death, farmer loans and suicides, young upcoming career girls committing suicide after abortion, the live-in paramours getting away with murder, little babies falling into abandoned borewells, and the latest is that of death caused by random shooting-in-the-air during wedding baaraats.
Assuming that I am an Indian male of marriagable age, (panning all Indian males, urban and rural), I will have watched porn videos, I will have courted at least one female, I will have fantasized about the girl next door, i will have surely proposed to and hounded at least one or more girls using my mobile and yet when I choose my life partner, she should be as virgin as untrodden snow. Mind you, the girl should NOT have conversed with any boy, she should NOT have been in any type of friendship with a boy, she should NOT be a normal female until I, the eligible bachelor, walk into her life. It is of no consequence to me that I had indulged in all the previous chapters, the girl I marry should be an ignoramus and simple minded, until I conquer her. Fie on her if I discover that she had been in any type of emotional relationship with any male, I shall discard her and banish her from my life and my thoughts, forever.
And it is this mind set that makes Indian girls tremble with fear of character malignment, because all Indian boys are incorrigible.
Live-in relationships are a big let down for the females. It is a ruse by males to get sex and service for free, with no strings attached. Poor, foolish, females, looking for love makes you compromise on too many fronts. These men format live-in relationships for their own convenience, to be able to get away without any backlash. The female is often left with no face, an illegitimate child or an abortion in the bargain. These tragedies highlight how males persuade, hound and entice girls to fulfill their male hormonal needs.
The latest tragedies of baraat shootouts are also male oriented. Frustrated males showing a Macho side by shooting in the air....please go shoot the rats that plague the local train stations and do a public service. How is it that so many persons possess illicit revolvers?
A certain politician goes to the police station and files a complaint to get me arrested if I request him not to block the bus stop with his cars. Please, dear politicians, use your man power and your political power, to do good and make the gun weilders surrender their illegal weapons. You can do it very effectively as most of these goons would be in your entourage, I'm sure.
About the bore well tragedies, the simplist solution would be to compel each and every borewell company to map out their workings of the past ten years and then let them show photographic proof that all have been covered.
Lastly, I shall confess that my favourite news anchor is Mr. Arnab Goswami. More power to you sir, to have the platform and the guts to speak out for what is right. This is so that the television viewing is a little more rational with him doing the talking on talk shows.
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