“The woman was diving for cover as the black and bulky man with five rings in all his fingers was firing bullets at the chest of a heavily bleeding man, who was still looking fair and handsome behind his two day stubble. With utmost pain and endurance, he took all four on his chest and ran towards the man with the gun. He takes the man with surprise and snatched the gun from him, firing the remaining two in his head. After all the cries and chaos, the black man rolls over twice in the air and lands five feet away from the handsome man and throws his tongue out of his mouth. The fair man sits down exhausted on the ground, mincing at the pain and fells unconscious at once. The woman comes from nowhere and grabs him. Then, the sirens fill the air and the ambulance arrives and takes the two with them. After a couple of hours, the doctors in a well furnished hospital declare the handsome man dead. The woman gives up a huge cry and thump heavily at the dead man. The pulse suddenly sparks up and the man springs up back to life. In the background, the old doctors are shouting out Miracle! Miracle! The man rises and kisses the woman and the next shot is of a wedding and the next one is of a holiday in France. And the two live happily ever after.”
This is was the extra-ordinary life profile of an ordinary woman and man, whose lives are absolutely normal. You can’t define after all “normal” for television. The daily inauguration of a reality show, or periodic weeping of the most innocent (and foolish) woman, who has contracted with the director to fill half a bucket of tears every day, is what you will see on a television if you are in a normal middle-class housewife’s house. And the thing that follows is even more pitiful. The housewife herself sheds a lot of tears, risking her health of dehydration. The news channels only show the results of the recently concluded reality show or teach astrology lessons. The movie channels are flooded with iten girls dancing up and down the club stage or a murderer plotting his next crime. Every other channel shows reality shows, either aimed at making the viewers laugh at non-sense jokes or making people dance or sing or taking up life threatening tasks for money and fame. Some people even are contesting to be the husband of a woman; they know they will never end up with. With all this fuss going around on nearly all the channels, people are still glued to the television, every one of them being influenced by at least one of them.
It is such a shame, that we have let a small thing like television take over our lives. Gone are the days of “DoorDarshan”. I will not be surprised if majority of people are not even receiving it on their T.V. But who cares? Even the craze for sports other than cricket is declining. In fact, many of them are not even broadcasted. Because the channels have many other things to show other than national teams! The people are finding it tough to rise above this crisis. This crisis is neither of money nor of water or electricity. This is a crisis of inspiration. The kids grow up seeing all this stuff and their world is made devoid of fresh ideas and innovation. They talk of them in even the classrooms. You can hear them chat about the last elimination from a reality show (which are not at all real) or of a new girl introduced in a serial. Their minds are slowly but surely spoilt beyond repair. Having come from the same scene myself, I know it better than most. Coming to IIT made me realize how small a world ours becomes because of T.V. No one now watches the channels like Discovery or National Geographic or even Cartoon Network. All they see is Colors and Star Plus. The world starts to become so unreal, with anything to everything possible. It becomes an escapist route. And the worst part is that it is hard to realize that we are getting spoilt.
It is only when you break the shackles of television and enter in to the bigger picture, that you realize that the world is so real and waiting for you. A sustained break from watching only can make you realize the need of a T.V. censor board that only takes care of all the unhealthy stuff, but promotes the decline of reality shows that corrupt our minds. These shows are of no good, encouraging kids to give up studies and make them a joker or a dancer at the expense of his or her natural talents. The role of parents is also important in this context, even though most of them are themselves bound in this mania. It is high time that we take control of our lives or if not our lives, our creativity and thinking abilities will surely be terminated.
This is was the extra-ordinary life profile of an ordinary woman and man, whose lives are absolutely normal. You can’t define after all “normal” for television. The daily inauguration of a reality show, or periodic weeping of the most innocent (and foolish) woman, who has contracted with the director to fill half a bucket of tears every day, is what you will see on a television if you are in a normal middle-class housewife’s house. And the thing that follows is even more pitiful. The housewife herself sheds a lot of tears, risking her health of dehydration. The news channels only show the results of the recently concluded reality show or teach astrology lessons. The movie channels are flooded with iten girls dancing up and down the club stage or a murderer plotting his next crime. Every other channel shows reality shows, either aimed at making the viewers laugh at non-sense jokes or making people dance or sing or taking up life threatening tasks for money and fame. Some people even are contesting to be the husband of a woman; they know they will never end up with. With all this fuss going around on nearly all the channels, people are still glued to the television, every one of them being influenced by at least one of them.
It is such a shame, that we have let a small thing like television take over our lives. Gone are the days of “DoorDarshan”. I will not be surprised if majority of people are not even receiving it on their T.V. But who cares? Even the craze for sports other than cricket is declining. In fact, many of them are not even broadcasted. Because the channels have many other things to show other than national teams! The people are finding it tough to rise above this crisis. This crisis is neither of money nor of water or electricity. This is a crisis of inspiration. The kids grow up seeing all this stuff and their world is made devoid of fresh ideas and innovation. They talk of them in even the classrooms. You can hear them chat about the last elimination from a reality show (which are not at all real) or of a new girl introduced in a serial. Their minds are slowly but surely spoilt beyond repair. Having come from the same scene myself, I know it better than most. Coming to IIT made me realize how small a world ours becomes because of T.V. No one now watches the channels like Discovery or National Geographic or even Cartoon Network. All they see is Colors and Star Plus. The world starts to become so unreal, with anything to everything possible. It becomes an escapist route. And the worst part is that it is hard to realize that we are getting spoilt.
It is only when you break the shackles of television and enter in to the bigger picture, that you realize that the world is so real and waiting for you. A sustained break from watching only can make you realize the need of a T.V. censor board that only takes care of all the unhealthy stuff, but promotes the decline of reality shows that corrupt our minds. These shows are of no good, encouraging kids to give up studies and make them a joker or a dancer at the expense of his or her natural talents. The role of parents is also important in this context, even though most of them are themselves bound in this mania. It is high time that we take control of our lives or if not our lives, our creativity and thinking abilities will surely be terminated.
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