Soaps
Ringing doorbells, shrilling telephones, screaming kids – nothing seems to move the current day Indian family away from the television, when their favorite serial is on! In an age where every morsel of food that enters our system is accounted for in our calorie chart, how is that we do not catalog what we subject our minds to?
posted by Miya @ 10:24 AM
4 Comments:
Very true. Lives have got centred around the Television. Makkal work/eat/bath/sleep in between TV programs.
Unnecessary mental strain, corruption of the mind, stagnation of thought process, all byproducts of this.
Even the spirituality of today's world is centred around the hard selling on TV.. :(
This is an addiction. Ppl know it is harmful, as much as alcohol or tobacco addicts know it. Only thing is, we dont have a TVSerial rehabilitation centre yet.!
Ramya,
I slightly differ from the view. Television, soaps in particular, apart from entertaining, bring out some societal problems which the viewers might try understand and not repeat the same mistakes. There is no backward effect in seeing problems in the society. It is like reading a looong novel.
Soaps are mainly targetted for people at home, who have quite some time to kill.
It is a nuisance though to have soaps all the time (especially in the evenings) that kills activities like meeting friends, going to the temple, attending to kids' school work etc...
Lavanya
> bring out some societal problems which the viewers might
Or the other extreme - People draw non-existent parallels in their lives from the serials, which lead to misunderstandings Eg: MIL DIL problems!!
Have a funny-flash-fiction by Balaji on the same topic.
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