The Right Type of TV

Yeah yeah.. i know its been long but who gives a hoot?!
I'm done with my engineering and am back home. Amidst all career based confusion, wacky-ass job offers, educational prospects, familial obligations, hanging out, gate-crashing weddings (which cannot be classified as hanging-out) lies BOREDOM! And the cure cannot be defined for individuals who fail to either enjoy or comprehend 'interesting' things, people and events.
[Let me warn you, this post may not be witty. At all!]
Okay let me be easy. I don't mind the internet, some cartoons and sitcoms, eating, driving and drinking.
Coming to the point, I'm a victim of FTV. No..i'm not talking of the impression that scantily clad women leave on a 21 yr old's brain. I'm speaking of Forced-Television-Viewing. See, I have a problem. The dining table and couch in my drawing room are placed in comfortable viewing distance from the Television Set. Hence, someone who's sitting at the couch or eating cannot ignore the 178 degree viewing angle, 42 inch plasma screen thats the only source of sound in the room. And besides, there's women on it all the time. (Talk about FTv)
My mother, a retd. banker is for some reason choosing to avoid better ways to pass time and succumb to the floral, glossy and colorful hues and tunes of the Indian telly Industry! As much as i hate to, i do happen to catch a few glimpses of the same and repent every single minute of it. Most of em are the 'saas-bahu' type. Over 20 Hindi (thankfully, my mom avoids telugu, kannada and marathi) channels run over 15 drama series (popularly known as serials) through the day. Most of em have the stereotypes that we all at some point or the other have observed, par example:
1) The good bahu and saans are clad in drab and sad clothes whereas the vamp has glittery, short clothes, jeans et al.
2) The usage of jarring background music is made to signify a 'twist in the tale'.
3) The sitar or veena or temple bells are used to show the victory of good over evil.
4) The good bahu rushes to the Krishna ki murti every time she or her family is in trouble.
5) Ofcourse, we know the regulars like after-life, plastic surgery, return from death and shit like that.
Now this is common to all the 15 X 20 serials. The only difference lies in the number of words in the names of these serials and the permutation and combinaition of words related to women, weddings and arbit crap of that sort. You can probably observe the rise in anguish with detail in my post.

Now, we have seen what these serials have and do. Let me bring to your notice the recent developments that the respected ministers are bothering us with. The interest in moral policing over governance is evident amongst most of our respected ministers. I know the party in power is not a 'right' party but I was always of the opinion that moral policing has been more of a right concept. The ministers are moving the house to ban pubs coz they apparently cause usage of drugs and westernisation. They want Jeans and t-shirts, mobile phones banned in colleges, etc coz they all, again, cause loss in morality, crime, arbit nonsense.

This regressive retardation can be observed only in these political propogandas or television serials. I wonder if either take inspiration from the other. This is talibanisation. Does ANYbody agree?

Btw, did i mention I almost tried for a job as a creative producer for a telugu reality show? FUCK!

lots of much required love