Time Travel
It was weird. The silence was eerie. I checked once again whether I had come back to the right house. It was the same. I gave a questioning look to my dad and he just shot back, “Nepal mein chor kyun nahi hote hain?”. I was like “huh?”. He replied, “Kyunki wahaan sab gurkha hote hain!!”. He thought it was really funny. Then I said “ok dude why is the TV off? Its time for mom daily soap opera dose.” Dad replied, “I already answerd u son, TV is off coz there is no reception. The whole gurkha joke was about that”.
Truly enough, there were no channels on air. I had mixed feelings. Firstly I was relieved that I had to no more bear with those soap operas which keep taking these 20 year leaps, have a lifetime supply of white hair colour and people just refuse to die or worse still.. come back from the grave. It can be a topic in itself.
On the other hand, I was missing the news, my car n bike show, the sports channels, the movie channels, National Geographic Megastructires season II(WOW!!!) etc etc.
For a moment I thought this was my chance to do some time travel. I was back in 1991. Pre-liberalisation era was back for two days. All we had to watch was DD national and DD Sahyadri. It wasn’t a weekend or else I would have been able to catch the weekend movie too. The nth rerun of Tezaab or Mr.India or someother bollywood potboiler. Radio was playing after ages and it was almost a novelty to hear, “Ye Akashwaani hai”.
I wonder if most of India even took note of this historical moment experienced by Mumbaikars. For one, most of India was not affected and secondly DD still is the only channel viewed by most indians as its reach is unparalleled.
Still the issue remains. How can one person decide what I Shud or shud not watch on TV? Its my TV, I pay the bloody cable bills whats your problem? There is childlock, what channels to program on my TV is up to me so why the moral policing? And honestly, there is always a way to beat the system and we Indians are brilliant at it.
All I wanna say to chaps who think every Mumbaikar is still in kindergarten… GROW UP ANF GET A LIFE….!!!
Truly enough, there were no channels on air. I had mixed feelings. Firstly I was relieved that I had to no more bear with those soap operas which keep taking these 20 year leaps, have a lifetime supply of white hair colour and people just refuse to die or worse still.. come back from the grave. It can be a topic in itself.
On the other hand, I was missing the news, my car n bike show, the sports channels, the movie channels, National Geographic Megastructires season II(WOW!!!) etc etc.
For a moment I thought this was my chance to do some time travel. I was back in 1991. Pre-liberalisation era was back for two days. All we had to watch was DD national and DD Sahyadri. It wasn’t a weekend or else I would have been able to catch the weekend movie too. The nth rerun of Tezaab or Mr.India or someother bollywood potboiler. Radio was playing after ages and it was almost a novelty to hear, “Ye Akashwaani hai”.
I wonder if most of India even took note of this historical moment experienced by Mumbaikars. For one, most of India was not affected and secondly DD still is the only channel viewed by most indians as its reach is unparalleled.
Still the issue remains. How can one person decide what I Shud or shud not watch on TV? Its my TV, I pay the bloody cable bills whats your problem? There is childlock, what channels to program on my TV is up to me so why the moral policing? And honestly, there is always a way to beat the system and we Indians are brilliant at it.
All I wanna say to chaps who think every Mumbaikar is still in kindergarten… GROW UP ANF GET A LIFE….!!!
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