Door se Darshan

Who would have believed a few years ago that the passing decades would change me into a typical Bharatiya Nari....sitting glued to the TV watching the maipulation of Hindi plots in affluent households inhabited by dumb and dolled up females? Wardha university may have nurtured my love for the Rashtrabhasha but it was Tripathi sir who tended it into a devotion. So TV se ye rishta kya kehelata hai- pass time or wasting time?
I shy away from watching the Bal Vivaha types because I am afraid I may be thrown behind bars for breaking the law,by attending under-age weddings.You see I have never had a chance to rise up the ladder to make muscle or money power and I fear I may be targetted easily by the second set of laws existing in this country, meant for common people like me .....
Back to my favourite serials. Once to the manor born is now building a Pavitra Rishta with the gutsy lass Pratigya, waiting for Jansi ki Rani to walk in the Raja ki Barath. Joot tho main bolti nahin, lekin, ye Bidaayi hogi kab?
So back to my favourite characters in my favourite serials. Does the mirage of another India projected in these serials blindfold you that you fail to see the crafty creators of these serials laughing all the way to the Swiss banks ? Our teaming millions are transported into this India of many a dreams for those few hours, leaving behind the reality of corruption, hunger, illiteracy and poverty. I am one of those clinging to my happy reality while simultaneously getting hitched to this glitzy wagon....

Gopi bahu with the chubby cheeks and dimple chin, an empty skull and nothing within....nodding her head to the clues thrown by the flashing eyes of Kali, sorry Kokila..
Ragini, i have a fixation on this Tammy's Mammy for her fixed crowning glory, fixed smile, fixed sari ....fixed everything. So sterilized, cut and paste. The whole serial is filled with sleep-walking fixtures except the dear old Alek babu who I am afraid may not be able to shake off the caricature....
Sumitra Singh, aka Thakurayin, standing tall and proud as a symbol of Patriarchal tyranny, plotting to eliminate any female that refuses to fall in line with her 'Aurat mard ke paavn ki joothi hoti hai' philosophy! Can you see the Yaadav trivumvirate in the cow belt smiling contentedly at this eliminator, a one woman army spreading their message of mardangee?
Archoo, the channel's idea of women's emancipation, in her pretty ethnic wear is pitted against man's pride and glory- three men and their collective self glory (ego?) ....Who would divorce the man that one loved so passionately, even if the Director told her to do so? And now at odds with her own convictions, how could she meekly give in to the machinations of three egos? For all her firm assertions, what a poor judge of people! Even a 10th pass with Diploma have not prepared her for the game of 'passing the buck'.

And the whole of India is being coached on this, our Indian culture....!!