Life is easy kya karein

There is a serial which my child loves called Karan and Kabir. It is about twin boys and their Mother. The mother works and lives in a hotel. The episodes are about the trouble the children keep getting into or the pranks they play. The boys are adorable. The good part about this serial is that it is not slap stick humour. It is not disrespectful to anyone and it does not encourage bad habits or value systems. I do believe that the value system in children come from the parents. But the society has to be responsible which also means the kind of content shown on TV.  Today in the name of liberalism, the content of children's programs has really gone down. The humour is crass and mannerisms and behaviour is sad.  Like in the radio channels in Mumbai, they all have a section on a Mumbaikar. One of the channels calls it 'Mawali Bhai'. His Hindi is absolutely gross. No one in Mumbai speaks like that. His language is filthy. What the radio channels are doing is using bad wo...

When I was in school, I knew the phrase "Cool as a cucumber". Then in Mumbai, I heard the word 'cool' in a different context. After some years of gauche ness, I started considering myself hep and cool. Nowadays, I am scandalised by everything whether it is 377 or adultery. The crimes were there before and even now. But the way the media runs it over and over again, it just spreads like wild fire. Then all that the people do is talk about it. Whether it is a virus or rainfall or floods, we blame someone else. I cannot stay up late for events or movies. I need my eight hours of sleep. I cannot wear uncomfortable clothes which are tight or synthetic or the 'Kaatu' variety. Those are the ones where the fabric feels hot or it pokes into the skin due to the zari or thread work or the synthetic fabric. For me, it is only about comfort wear. It also means that a lot of women are comfortable in the tight synthetic clothes which I cannot stand. So for all these reason...

Have you experienced 'Nashik Dhol' ?  There is a reason that I did not say 'Have you heard the 'Nashik Dhol'? Let me begin, Nashik Dhol is native to Maharashtra. It is a band playing drums. These drums are huge and tied to the waist of the players. There is one stick for the drum and the hand is used to provide music the beat. This is traditional Maharastra music. There is one member of the band who plays a bell. The bell is the old school bell which we had basically a dish and a spoon which was given to young children to play with. In our country, No one gave plastic toys to their toddlers. It was always old steel vessels from the kitchen like bowls in various sizes, plate and a spoon. The child learnt to hold and grasp the vessels. He understood sound which he created by banging and he stopped it after a point unlike the battery operated toys where the synthetic sound just does not stop.  Nashik Dhol is played during Ganpati and Gudi Padwa. The band is in hu...