Moving on from my love towards coffee, my home climate was very conducive with the in coming of new television. Prime slot programs needed by everyone was satisfied by two tv's.
Yet, even now i wonder why would we need two televisions? and secondly why so many channels cluttering the co-axial cables(/setup box and also adding lot of satellite debris!!)??
I think this is actually becoming a norm in many places these days!.
A casual look at the newspapers these days for the day's television schedule brings in lot of worrying thoughts to me .
A simple representation of this can be :" Are these very much needed? "
I still cherish those days of TV programs from the good old "DOORDARSHAN".
I get a feeling that the balance between the entertainment, and learning was very good then.
Being in Pondicherry, we got feeder DD1-Madras from "Madras -Doordarshan" from 5 pm onwards to night 9pm. Then it was over to Delhi-Doordarshan till 10pm .
I vaguely remember some programs (being nostalgic) and take you all through the winding path to our past!
1.Kurinchi Malar.(Ex Deputy CM Stalin was the hero in this serial). Between 7.30-8pm ,Mondays!!-- in 1991?!?
2.Tuesday One hour drama . 7.30-8.30 pm. Usually not that great.
3. Mariyadai Raman
4. Idhu oru Manithanin kadhai- (Raghuvaran was acting a dunkard in this! Great acting! )
5. En Iniya Eiyendira.. (Sujatha's Sci-fi!.. "Naan Sibi .. Nee Nilla".. remember this dialog?)
5. Thupariyum Sambhu.(YG Mahendran)
6.Oliyum-Olliyum, Chitrahaar.
7. ulla -varum Olikathir.
8. Rail-Snegam( i think this special for many people, lovely title song in Sahana ragam).
9. Turning point.
10. Bhomkesh Bakshi.
11.Vikram and Bethal.
12. Ramayanam
13.Mahabharath.
14.Kanmani Poonga.
15. Duck Tales, Jungle book,Tales spin, He Man and the master of universe, Spider man( on Saturday evenings),Laurel and Hardy.
16.Ek se Badkar Ek.( I think this came in DD-2!!)
17. Sword of Tippu Sultan.
18. Malgudi days.
19. Madhu Cheenu, Vanna Kolangal, Naam KudumbaM
20. Iravil Oru Pagal (Revathi and Suresh Menon, Revathi is a blind girl!!).
21. Washington ill Thirumanam
22. Maapilai Muruku (DD-2)
23. Surabhi -- (Amul Surabhi)!!
24. Discovery of India- (Sunday evening 3-4pm?!!)
( Please note observations given here within brackets are purely from the sight of a 9 or 10 year old kid !!) and then Saturday evening's Hindi movies and Sunday evening's Tamil movies.
I may be used to seeing lot of Sivaji ,MGR during this time in TV, that made me a fan for these guys and movies from these periods. Add on top of this DD-2Metro came in later and i would say it was all fine even then. The above list mostly made up for the entire week. Tlist is not that tightly compiled, even then the entire package was not taxing. I would like to add that though the list may be entertainment oriented, i still stick to that it also helped us in our learning ( because a half-an-hour program ) after school is an "OK daily - dosage" to the kid. Add that many of these were not derived from Films, or film subjects!!
In today's scenario , a single channel's program list for the day has more than 200% than the list
that we were used to for the entire week. Multiply it by 8 or 10 channels in foray, my God, it is 2000%. And most of these contents are made from films!
I don't bring in Discovery,Animal-Planet ,Nat-Geo,Cartoon network,Pogo - channels here.
Person be it anyone - from baby to school going kids , people from College,employed ones, and the retired ones , we get into this pressure zone and it becomes very hard to crack this nut.
One thing that needs a special mention here, is most of these day's programs have quality and people's professionalism has increased leaps and bounds. But that does not mean that we must see them. Yet because of our day-to-day attachment with these programs , we start feeling that this as our own part!
A show for the best singer -filters from over 20000 participants and then at the end there is one winner! Though there can be one winner logically by self imposed rules, it creates ample stress and heart burns for the talented lot of participants and audiences. Is this needed?
Similarly the same case with soap operas,reality shows and even the News that mostly giving raise to stress and also pain. (though the audience may claim otherwise! it is not the case)
Another serious problem is the content these programs carry. I found that many times, these programs cross the content border and becomes irrelevant,unsuitable for the audience. With the case of Doordarshan it was always Safe, i would say. But with private channels we put our self into lot of this exposure risk from the form of contents,and even in advertisements!
.. To continue!
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Saturday, 8 October 2011
The truth serum
"Lets keep it short now.I will meet Divakar in the evening". The voice in the other end agreed.
"Ok, thats nice. Bye.Bye". Renjith disconnected the call. Thangavel came into the room.
"Doctor,Mr.Alphonse is waiting to meet you". Renjith moved towards the visitor's room.
"Good afternoon, Mr.Alphonse" greeted Renjith entering the room.
"Doctor, good afternoon". "we need your help in this double murder case".
"Sure.The double murder case? i see... .What is the support you look for?"
"The Truth serum!"
"Truth serum?" "Yes, my chief has asked for your support on this!".
"Well ok..., but its out of way ,its against court of law".
"Well this is for spirit of law."
Renjith was lost in momentary thoughtfulness. "Ok, Mr. Alphonse, i agree. When do you need it?"
"We need it this evening , doctor"
"Collect it at 5pm" was Renjith terse reply.
Alphonse left the "Center for Higher Psychiatry studies".Renjith Karunakaran was its chief.
The sun had settled down. Renjith was on his way to the Grand Canyon. As expected Divakar was awaiting Renjith. Divakar wore a jaded look. Renjith was prepared to resolve this today. He moved in. Divakar was at the reserved table. Renjith glanced at Divakar's sober look .
Silence prevailed for sometime. Renjith took initiative.The bartender was signalled to bring in Black dot and Cognac. Renjith slowly sipped his cognac, enticing Divakar. Divakar relented.
The clear liquid vanished little by little. The black dot bottle was empty now.
Divakar started to pour out.
"Vasco is .....". Renjith withstood the storm. Divakar was a relaxed man.
Renjith looked at the clock. It was quarter past eleven . He checked his Mobile, which was in 'silence' mode. There was a SMS message awaiting. "Truth serum worked, thanks"
He spoke to himself "Yes truth-serum, you worked.. but who are you?!"
He smiled to himself, looking at the empty bottle lying.
"Ok, thats nice. Bye.Bye". Renjith disconnected the call. Thangavel came into the room.
"Doctor,Mr.Alphonse is waiting to meet you". Renjith moved towards the visitor's room.
"Good afternoon, Mr.Alphonse" greeted Renjith entering the room.
"Doctor, good afternoon". "we need your help in this double murder case".
"Sure.The double murder case? i see... .What is the support you look for?"
"The Truth serum!"
"Truth serum?" "Yes, my chief has asked for your support on this!".
"Well ok..., but its out of way ,its against court of law".
"Well this is for spirit of law."
Renjith was lost in momentary thoughtfulness. "Ok, Mr. Alphonse, i agree. When do you need it?"
"We need it this evening , doctor"
"Collect it at 5pm" was Renjith terse reply.
Alphonse left the "Center for Higher Psychiatry studies".Renjith Karunakaran was its chief.
The sun had settled down. Renjith was on his way to the Grand Canyon. As expected Divakar was awaiting Renjith. Divakar wore a jaded look. Renjith was prepared to resolve this today. He moved in. Divakar was at the reserved table. Renjith glanced at Divakar's sober look .
Silence prevailed for sometime. Renjith took initiative.The bartender was signalled to bring in Black dot and Cognac. Renjith slowly sipped his cognac, enticing Divakar. Divakar relented.
The clear liquid vanished little by little. The black dot bottle was empty now.
Divakar started to pour out.
"Vasco is .....". Renjith withstood the storm. Divakar was a relaxed man.
Renjith looked at the clock. It was quarter past eleven . He checked his Mobile, which was in 'silence' mode. There was a SMS message awaiting. "Truth serum worked, thanks"
He spoke to himself "Yes truth-serum, you worked.. but who are you?!"
He smiled to himself, looking at the empty bottle lying.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Big indian movies..Hit movies .. but serious flaws!!
Today is an auspicious day. Its my date of joining my first job. Seek all your blessings, wellwishes for it!
Coming to the topic.I have selected three movies here for a short discusssion.
All three are big budget ones, super duper hits and Big heros.
Chronologically:
1. Ramana: The story was good. Vijaykanth as a professor was good in acting(no question on that). But Murugadoss flawed at one place minimum. He showed close up shots of Professor. Ramana, typing in his laptop, with Windows media player running on its screen. I checked with Microsoft. No such media player software available till date!! :(
2. 3 Idiots: AmirKhan frantically gets things Done in the climax.... "AAALLL IZZZZ WELLL" but yes and no partially. Too many times the director has used USB-data card in Rancho's laptop. The timeline of the movie and the availablity of AIRTEL USB data card ( which is clearly shown for business reasons) dont really match!
3. Endiran: Well myself an ardent Rajini fan. Excuse me ! Why would Chitti instruct his "soldiers" in human audible frequencies? or a language that is language of humans. As such some machine instructions, crypt codes, would have done the job better. With Chitti "using zigbee" earlier, the suggested approach would have made the movie more bland..
Neverthless "Black sheep" "Black sheep" was verymuch enjoyable!!!
Bye bye
Coming to the topic.I have selected three movies here for a short discusssion.
All three are big budget ones, super duper hits and Big heros.
Chronologically:
1. Ramana: The story was good. Vijaykanth as a professor was good in acting(no question on that). But Murugadoss flawed at one place minimum. He showed close up shots of Professor. Ramana, typing in his laptop, with Windows media player running on its screen. I checked with Microsoft. No such media player software available till date!! :(
2. 3 Idiots: AmirKhan frantically gets things Done in the climax.... "AAALLL IZZZZ WELLL" but yes and no partially. Too many times the director has used USB-data card in Rancho's laptop. The timeline of the movie and the availablity of AIRTEL USB data card ( which is clearly shown for business reasons) dont really match!
3. Endiran: Well myself an ardent Rajini fan. Excuse me ! Why would Chitti instruct his "soldiers" in human audible frequencies? or a language that is language of humans. As such some machine instructions, crypt codes, would have done the job better. With Chitti "using zigbee" earlier, the suggested approach would have made the movie more bland..
Neverthless "Black sheep" "Black sheep" was verymuch enjoyable!!!
Bye bye
Sunday, 2 October 2011
A lot can happen over coffee!
It was three in the evening. I was there at my work desk. Fighting hard I was, the recently
occurring daily 3pm headaches. This was a self created problem. The reason was that I swore
sometime back not to touch the coffee @ office.
Nishanth, my manager comes hard at me. Especially, very hard after my 3pm coffee.
I took to no taking coffee @ work place after observing the sequence of my coffee-intake and run-ins with Nishanth. Atleast i wanted to stop this recurrence and there-by reduce my budding inert bad-blood and silent swearing against Nishanth. To certain extent Nishanth's behavior mellowed a bit in past two weeks , thanks to my coffee "sacrifice". Over all I was happy.
It was strange decision, looking back now. Why should Nishanth's whippings and my coffee drinks connect ? Two distinct and separate dots frankly. Yet these two dots theory connected. Through an invisible sequence connecting them in either straight or curves or circle!!, for which even now i dont have an answer! I now realize that there is an undercurrent third dot, which seems to connect these as well!! Simply blame it on Chaos theory!
The free running speaker inner voice was asking me "Pattu, tell me why this all of a sudden? For past twenty five years, you are used to this drink. The system is adapted to it. Why No to it now? I was Silent. This was the polite reply from me to the free running speaker inner voice.
The headache was un-bearable. It lasted for at least half an hour. I realized it and knew it for sometime .I had become an addict. A coffee addict, to be very specific. For i did not only avoid the 3pm coffee, but abstained from coffee completely now. I renounced coffee for the sake of my job. It was NO Coffee surrender and penance to the Almighty. My body was starving for its daily drug dose. It has been slowly abused un-knowingly. I was struggling. It was becoming hard as the days progressed, and I was angry at my own foolish decision.
It was that week's Saturday, I chanced to go to a social gathering nearby. A passer-by onlooker, who was an elderly person came to me. We never knew each other. Few minutes passed by in silence. He made a casual but straight specific remark looking at me "Don’t avoid the coffee. May be add some more sugar to it"! I was there smiling at him and at his remarks. A mind reader?! Well i dont know. I moved away from that place.
Back home, i asked my mom to get me a strong cup of caffeine. It was new day after all and also a Sunday. I am supported by that noble soul as well. I now have got a strong excuse to hook to my coffee habit once again. Casually i looked at the newspaper. The Page III was full of TV channels and the programs listed for the day. I was looking into each of them gingerly.
My wife came to me taking the empty coffee tumbler away. "We need new TV". The statement was short but seemed decisive and final! I was amused, "Well has this one gone bad? Its only 4 months old? I blurted out.
There was exchange of glances between us. My inner voice also smiled sheepishly. It knew the reason, and i knew that too. The new TV in the living room was hale and healthy. There was resource constraint not at office but :-) @ home ! There was one TV and this thing was brewing for some time now.
The scope of this one resource among three equally powerful mangers was the problem. This curious “tripartite” case was evenly contested by my parents on one side, my wife & kid on side two, the third side from my brother, sister. The cabinet met over again and again and the "resolution" was finally passed. This resolution was for one more TV! and hence the RFQ was raised for purchase by home minister.
Already with enough on plates, the poor finance minister who was not even part of that cabinet meeting , i was wondering how to make the ends meet for this new purchase! Nishanth will throw me out to sea , if i ask for a pay rise for a tv!! A TV became a villan!! Iam happy that God has been very kind to me so far. I hope HE is also kind to Nishanth as well giving him lot of energy to deal with his dull sub-ordinate. Getting a new job now is the last straw that i would pray for. After being in the same project for years, iam out of touch with the outside world!
But, every-one in home feigned deaf. "Poor guy you cannot be good to all! My free running speaker spoke up.
A Divine intervention!! There was knock at the door. I opened , and in came a person who is
popular in our locality . He is the familiar face of locally favored political Party. "Sir please take this coupon and come to the Public Distribution Unit at our locality this Wednesday. This government has kept its promise, you see."
Though i don’t align with any party at all, i found that "this promise" was too much!
Nevertheless, i silently received it, signed an acknowledgement slip and gave him back. I scanned the receipt. "Color TV Distribution Scheme" The message was loud and clear. I took it and kept it on the shelf of the living room.
Still mulling on how to purchase a tv, i was staring at the tv buy options in my internet browser.
There was a discussion and cheerful giggles around. How did the gloomy day go bright? I looked into the corner from which the noise came. It was my mom, wife and sister together.
"Oh what a tight corner?!" I thought.
My wife came to me smiling. "Well did you keep that coupon on shelf ? I nodded.
My mother joined, "You see just yesterday we were discussing on to get a new tv. Today we have got one coupon". With my sister joining the group , all three echoed "God has answered our prayers"
I got wild with that last statement!"God answered our prayer"? I told them straight "Look, we may need to buy one , but i am not going to use that coupon". God agreed with me. It was not his answer at all to my tv problem. It was a cross talk and outside noise that came home in the form of a coupon!
It was like one ball bowled and three wickets! Yes all three were hurt and out!
Then the bold one among them started "Look, we need one more tv, thats all i can say. We need it"
Back to square one, Monday morning , It was coffee time. I told my wife "Padma, We should not use that coupon". It was Quizzical session.
"Why"?
"It was not meant for us actually. This scheme was started for people below poverty"
"So"?
"So it is not morally right to make use of that." She turned a parrot, nose as red as chillies.
Quiz ended with two short questions? No. No.
Enter my father. Round two.
"Ennda Narendra when is that TV coupon due date?"
"Wednesday pa, but he says he is not going to get it". Replied Padma embolden with new support from father.
I started "Illa appa, you see this coupon is not for us, it was started for BPL".
"BPL or Onida or Philips why bother about the brand just get it da?" My unassuming father retorted.
"Haiooo, BPL I mean its Below Poverty Line pa" I gave him gyan!
"Oh hoo.. ennada nee" my father broke into smile. "When Government itself has announced it you should make use of it. That’s all i can say"
Round Three. Krish, my brother entered.
"Why are you saying no?" My brother started briskly Sehwag style, sipping his coffee.
"Krishna , what are you saying? The government is meant for providing the basics at least. The basics are yet to be covered. How do you people the so called literates and responsible ones accept this?
"Basics?! What basics? you mean" Replied Krishna.
"Food, job, infrastructure, health care, education, administration" I gave a burst reply.
"My bike got punctured for fourth time yesterday in one month" A startling statement from my bro, made me laugh.
"Do you expect government to correct your puncture?" With my laugh controlled i asked him. I was happy in assuming that i am winning this round.
In came a reply as a straight drive from Krish, as straight as master blaster’s trade mark!
"This government or any government is not doing anything, what i mean is the so called road outside our apartment was naturally formed because of our own transport movement , wear and tear"
"Over hundred representations for laying road have gone to dustbins". My tax money and your tax money has got into scams. You cannot stop that. Can you? No bus, no transport infrastructure, no 24Hr electricity, water, nothing. So just agree to the good what we get. If you dont get this, Some other "Narendra" will sign for and get it in your name "
My mother , came in. "Paaru da kanna, Now going for a new tv purchase is not needed. Its
waste of money isnt? Dont think too much". I was happy that i found one able soul to support my case that morning. She continued. "You see even Dr.Natesan and advocate Dass have applied. Their wives told me. This is correct. What we do is our right only!"Wednesday is good day also. "Pon Kadaichalum Budhan Kadaikadhu..so lets get it" She ended.
My last hope found was a mirage!! I fumbled even more! "Duty! Right! Citizen right?! My God”.
This is truely new age definition of freedom and rights of citizen!
The end was fast coming. I sensed it. My mom, bro, sis, wife and father on one side of the table. Other side it was a solo performance.Truth as it may be, the jury asked me "Tell us one thing. Do you say that you shall wait for the good things to happen your way? or accept the the single good thing that comes our way? The about to be made judgment was very legibly written. I resigned and accepted to taste success gracefully.
After all, Iam utilizing the right given to the citizen. After all, I am helping the government to
fulfill its promise. After all, the size of hole in my pay-packet stayed the same. After all, Nishanth will be happy if no pay rise question is triggered now. After all, the resource constraint @ home was resolved amicably and everyone is happy.
The TV was innocently showing the movie channel. Times's rating "All time best hundred
movies of the century" was the show's name. "Naalu peru Nalla irukanum'na edhuvume thappu illa" The famous immortalized character’s dialog was broadcast there by giving me clarity. I realized this decision was doing good to more than four people! I got a head start to my week's office work. The new tv was sanctified to enter home.
To continue.
occurring daily 3pm headaches. This was a self created problem. The reason was that I swore
sometime back not to touch the coffee @ office.
Nishanth, my manager comes hard at me. Especially, very hard after my 3pm coffee.
I took to no taking coffee @ work place after observing the sequence of my coffee-intake and run-ins with Nishanth. Atleast i wanted to stop this recurrence and there-by reduce my budding inert bad-blood and silent swearing against Nishanth. To certain extent Nishanth's behavior mellowed a bit in past two weeks , thanks to my coffee "sacrifice". Over all I was happy.
It was strange decision, looking back now. Why should Nishanth's whippings and my coffee drinks connect ? Two distinct and separate dots frankly. Yet these two dots theory connected. Through an invisible sequence connecting them in either straight or curves or circle!!, for which even now i dont have an answer! I now realize that there is an undercurrent third dot, which seems to connect these as well!! Simply blame it on Chaos theory!
The free running speaker inner voice was asking me "Pattu, tell me why this all of a sudden? For past twenty five years, you are used to this drink. The system is adapted to it. Why No to it now? I was Silent. This was the polite reply from me to the free running speaker inner voice.
The headache was un-bearable. It lasted for at least half an hour. I realized it and knew it for sometime .I had become an addict. A coffee addict, to be very specific. For i did not only avoid the 3pm coffee, but abstained from coffee completely now. I renounced coffee for the sake of my job. It was NO Coffee surrender and penance to the Almighty. My body was starving for its daily drug dose. It has been slowly abused un-knowingly. I was struggling. It was becoming hard as the days progressed, and I was angry at my own foolish decision.
It was that week's Saturday, I chanced to go to a social gathering nearby. A passer-by onlooker, who was an elderly person came to me. We never knew each other. Few minutes passed by in silence. He made a casual but straight specific remark looking at me "Don’t avoid the coffee. May be add some more sugar to it"! I was there smiling at him and at his remarks. A mind reader?! Well i dont know. I moved away from that place.
Back home, i asked my mom to get me a strong cup of caffeine. It was new day after all and also a Sunday. I am supported by that noble soul as well. I now have got a strong excuse to hook to my coffee habit once again. Casually i looked at the newspaper. The Page III was full of TV channels and the programs listed for the day. I was looking into each of them gingerly.
My wife came to me taking the empty coffee tumbler away. "We need new TV". The statement was short but seemed decisive and final! I was amused, "Well has this one gone bad? Its only 4 months old? I blurted out.
There was exchange of glances between us. My inner voice also smiled sheepishly. It knew the reason, and i knew that too. The new TV in the living room was hale and healthy. There was resource constraint not at office but :-) @ home ! There was one TV and this thing was brewing for some time now.
The scope of this one resource among three equally powerful mangers was the problem. This curious “tripartite” case was evenly contested by my parents on one side, my wife & kid on side two, the third side from my brother, sister. The cabinet met over again and again and the "resolution" was finally passed. This resolution was for one more TV! and hence the RFQ was raised for purchase by home minister.
Already with enough on plates, the poor finance minister who was not even part of that cabinet meeting , i was wondering how to make the ends meet for this new purchase! Nishanth will throw me out to sea , if i ask for a pay rise for a tv!! A TV became a villan!! Iam happy that God has been very kind to me so far. I hope HE is also kind to Nishanth as well giving him lot of energy to deal with his dull sub-ordinate. Getting a new job now is the last straw that i would pray for. After being in the same project for years, iam out of touch with the outside world!
But, every-one in home feigned deaf. "Poor guy you cannot be good to all! My free running speaker spoke up.
A Divine intervention!! There was knock at the door. I opened , and in came a person who is
popular in our locality . He is the familiar face of locally favored political Party. "Sir please take this coupon and come to the Public Distribution Unit at our locality this Wednesday. This government has kept its promise, you see."
Though i don’t align with any party at all, i found that "this promise" was too much!
Nevertheless, i silently received it, signed an acknowledgement slip and gave him back. I scanned the receipt. "Color TV Distribution Scheme" The message was loud and clear. I took it and kept it on the shelf of the living room.
Still mulling on how to purchase a tv, i was staring at the tv buy options in my internet browser.
There was a discussion and cheerful giggles around. How did the gloomy day go bright? I looked into the corner from which the noise came. It was my mom, wife and sister together.
"Oh what a tight corner?!" I thought.
My wife came to me smiling. "Well did you keep that coupon on shelf ? I nodded.
My mother joined, "You see just yesterday we were discussing on to get a new tv. Today we have got one coupon". With my sister joining the group , all three echoed "God has answered our prayers"
I got wild with that last statement!"God answered our prayer"? I told them straight "Look, we may need to buy one , but i am not going to use that coupon". God agreed with me. It was not his answer at all to my tv problem. It was a cross talk and outside noise that came home in the form of a coupon!
It was like one ball bowled and three wickets! Yes all three were hurt and out!
Then the bold one among them started "Look, we need one more tv, thats all i can say. We need it"
Back to square one, Monday morning , It was coffee time. I told my wife "Padma, We should not use that coupon". It was Quizzical session.
"Why"?
"It was not meant for us actually. This scheme was started for people below poverty"
"So"?
"So it is not morally right to make use of that." She turned a parrot, nose as red as chillies.
Quiz ended with two short questions? No. No.
Enter my father. Round two.
"Ennda Narendra when is that TV coupon due date?"
"Wednesday pa, but he says he is not going to get it". Replied Padma embolden with new support from father.
I started "Illa appa, you see this coupon is not for us, it was started for BPL".
"BPL or Onida or Philips why bother about the brand just get it da?" My unassuming father retorted.
"Haiooo, BPL I mean its Below Poverty Line pa" I gave him gyan!
"Oh hoo.. ennada nee" my father broke into smile. "When Government itself has announced it you should make use of it. That’s all i can say"
Round Three. Krish, my brother entered.
"Why are you saying no?" My brother started briskly Sehwag style, sipping his coffee.
"Krishna , what are you saying? The government is meant for providing the basics at least. The basics are yet to be covered. How do you people the so called literates and responsible ones accept this?
"Basics?! What basics? you mean" Replied Krishna.
"Food, job, infrastructure, health care, education, administration" I gave a burst reply.
"My bike got punctured for fourth time yesterday in one month" A startling statement from my bro, made me laugh.
"Do you expect government to correct your puncture?" With my laugh controlled i asked him. I was happy in assuming that i am winning this round.
In came a reply as a straight drive from Krish, as straight as master blaster’s trade mark!
"This government or any government is not doing anything, what i mean is the so called road outside our apartment was naturally formed because of our own transport movement , wear and tear"
"Over hundred representations for laying road have gone to dustbins". My tax money and your tax money has got into scams. You cannot stop that. Can you? No bus, no transport infrastructure, no 24Hr electricity, water, nothing. So just agree to the good what we get. If you dont get this, Some other "Narendra" will sign for and get it in your name "
My mother , came in. "Paaru da kanna, Now going for a new tv purchase is not needed. Its
waste of money isnt? Dont think too much". I was happy that i found one able soul to support my case that morning. She continued. "You see even Dr.Natesan and advocate Dass have applied. Their wives told me. This is correct. What we do is our right only!"Wednesday is good day also. "Pon Kadaichalum Budhan Kadaikadhu..so lets get it" She ended.
My last hope found was a mirage!! I fumbled even more! "Duty! Right! Citizen right?! My God”.
This is truely new age definition of freedom and rights of citizen!
The end was fast coming. I sensed it. My mom, bro, sis, wife and father on one side of the table. Other side it was a solo performance.Truth as it may be, the jury asked me "Tell us one thing. Do you say that you shall wait for the good things to happen your way? or accept the the single good thing that comes our way? The about to be made judgment was very legibly written. I resigned and accepted to taste success gracefully.
After all, Iam utilizing the right given to the citizen. After all, I am helping the government to
fulfill its promise. After all, the size of hole in my pay-packet stayed the same. After all, Nishanth will be happy if no pay rise question is triggered now. After all, the resource constraint @ home was resolved amicably and everyone is happy.
The TV was innocently showing the movie channel. Times's rating "All time best hundred
movies of the century" was the show's name. "Naalu peru Nalla irukanum'na edhuvume thappu illa" The famous immortalized character’s dialog was broadcast there by giving me clarity. I realized this decision was doing good to more than four people! I got a head start to my week's office work. The new tv was sanctified to enter home.
To continue.
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