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All right. Blog has changed looks and this one stays for some time. Minor coding alterations should do the trick to make it look more presentable and aesthetic. I thought it was the right time to begin with some writing. I have grown averse to TV. With an entirely new species of wicked females and little kids getting married at Colours Channel - my hatred quotient seems to be growing exponentially for the idiot box! [ The sweet girl planning to be my wife - beware!]

However, as I returned from a good day's driving on Delhi roads [15th August - empty roads - yay!], I found myself sitting in front of TV and not moving within 2 minutes. Now that was strange. The show that caught my eyes on the channel I just cursed was India's Got Talent. The concept like most of the so called reality shows and non-'I-have-strange-noises-and-females' shows has been taken from the 'phoren' shows like Britain's Got Talent et al. The good thing about the show comes simply from the fact that we are a diverse group of people. We have people in this diverse land who shit daily in fields, on railway tracks and also on warm-till-their-ass-likes-it pots. We have people who brush their teeth with their dirtier-than-mouth fingers, with daatun, with brushes and also with those battery driven rotary hi-tech brushes. Fine! Point driven - everyone to one's liking and income!

This show has some of the most amazing display of music, dances, fusions, performing arts and hence cultures that I have seen in the recent times. All this minus the silly old melodrama one associates with channels who think that those cheap tricks raise their TRPs [actually they do - as I said, diversity - we also have people who do fall for those tricks]. This thing makes the show an entirely different proposition. They come. They perform. Judges rate. Done. Thank you. Cool!

Of course, some promotion does happen but it is still bearable considering other crap that is dished out. And one gets to see different flavours of our diverse cultures. Age no bar. Art no bar. Now that is what makes for a good show with mom's dinner. :)

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  1. Ire16 August, 2009

    Good one. I like the show though not a regular watcher and yeah, I share the same views for television.

    :) :) :)

    Keep updating more often!

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