Monsoons are nice no? With every drop, mushy feelings arise in your heart, muddy feelings on the road and fungi feelings on the walls! But there is one thing though, no matter where you are, it always seems to rain when you least want it to! Like when you’re waiting for the bus or when you really really want to go the food court or when you don’t have an umbrella or when you're like me and you think that a man must wear a raincoat if and only if there's a bet involved! And it’s those times when you're walking down the street, when you see HIM too, HIM being the person with the umbrella and you being the one without! But you can’t approach HIM, Noooo you can’t, cz ur apprehensive, that HE might touch you, inappropriately! Worse still, he could be an undercover terrorist! See you can’t trust people anymore, and why's that? Because you don’t talk to people that much. Conversation is the foundation of faith! Then again you need common topics to talk about don’t you?! Now the best topics are the ones you see on the telly! But have you seen the programming these days?! Watching a dog chase its tail better than those! Just think about it...On one channel you have a wanna be taking interviews of other wannabes about how they wannabe her hubby!on another you have over dressed or under dressed or plain undressed neanderthals competing with each other and jumping through hoops because the 2 bald twins told them that that'll give them some dough!..switch to another channel and you meet brides and bhabhis and saasus and bahus and bahujais and betis and nannads and baas who apply a trillion ton of patch work on their faces just so they can prance around, shout about and give the same shot thrice from different angles! eventually you give up hope and 'click' goes the surfer and you see the news piece about how one buffalo in garhwal is attracted to a peafowl and is now asking her to 'break the barriers of the society!' and elope with him! What a load of buffalo dumping! But this wasn’t always so, was it?! Remember the simpler days when every Mondays Byomkesh and Ajit solved the trickiest of the puzzles? How about when you woke up early morning on Sundays so that you could catch The Jungle Book then Potli Baba Ki and then Disney Adventures?! The only source of film songs then were Chitrahaar on Wednesdays, Rangoli on Sunday morning and Super Hit Muquabla at night! Back then, the educational shows used to be like Ank Ajoobe and The Turning Point, which always did a triple jump over my head and bounced away! Every monkey was named Rancho and Arun Govil was a bigger celebrity than David Beckham! 'Thank you shaktiman' and 'sorry shaktiman' were essential in every kid’s vocabulary! When you had a crush on the cute girl who presented Phulwari Bachchon ki and you were like so totally jealous of the damn clown! Staying up till 10 to watch surabhi on Sundays was a habit since your dad wanted to hear Prannoy Roy prattling on about the news on the World This Week! When your favorite episode was either The Thesis episode of Flop show where Jaspal Bhatti wants to get his saali married to his student who then goes on to teach her how to ride a scooter, or that Zabaan Sambhalke episode where the anna and the praaji compete for the air hostess's kiss, or that episode in Dekh bhai Dekh where Shilpa leaves Sanju for Saahil, Shekhar chachu bets on horses, bade chachu snores and that under-wear dude sings 'Lolly Lolly, Sunday morning!' Or how waited for the Friday to come just so that you could see the Burning train on DD1! So you see what I mean don’t you? The reason why you got wet today morning is because you have too many channels on your telly! Ditch that DTH and go back to good old antenna! Bring Metro back you govt babus! And Long Live DD1!
Anand
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