Thursday, September 1, 2011

Serial Killers

Its 7 PM in the evening. Mamis' have returned from the Temple. Its time to tune on. Whats the news on TV today. Its pretty much the same as what it was 2 weeks ago. Only change is that the girl who went to buy grocery two weeks ago has just returned home. What are we talking about. Hold on. This is about the "Serial time Killers", that atleast chennai women and men of late, as i know of, who have got hooked onto the television soap operas. Its a packed evening between 7 PM to 10:30 PM. Just have to find time for dinner. Arnab & Anna take a backseat. Whats more important than the second wife of a third husband going out on an adventurous rendezvous. Is it time for dinner now?. Hickory dickory dock!!! Watches - phew. I can tell you the time with the title music of the soap operas telecast on TV channels. The characters and names that come and go are akin to that of the infinite mathematical series of Ramanujan. There are people who can put Ramanujan on the backseat for their precision with their memory on the names of characters without using any formulae. The TRP rating is directly proportional to the amount of twists and turn the episodes generate week after week. The daughter in law says that she does not like her mother in law and picks up the knife from the kitchen only for the viewers to see a "To be continued" climax for the day. But you can rest assured to vacation in Simla for the next two weeks to come back and see the daughter in law cutting vegetables with the same knife that she picked up from the kitchen. Nevertheless, Its new age entertainment to pass your time in the most unproductive way possible. Presume now is the time for books on time management for authors to make millions. They should concentrate on time management for the precious 3 hours between 7-10 PM on week days to earn the bucks.