TV industry now and then.....

Just switch TV and then are numerous channnels floating around nowadays ,there are counteless serials, songs, ads,news channels and the list goes on,the tv industry is getting bigger day by day, every year new channels are launched then there are foreign channels and our own local cable tv channels, it seems getting lost into sea of entertainment.it become difficult to decide what to watch and what not to watch just another catch- 22 situation.More often we surf TV than watch, channel surfing has become a habit it is difficult to find someone watching one channel except kids who are luckly hooked to cartoon network:).I feel TV is less relaxing these days and it lack the excitement factor it used to be earlier in days of doordharshan back in 80's and early 90's.Down the line, Doordharshan provided decent entertainment that was fun to watch and at the same time very informative and TV was simply Vogue in evey corner, serials were remembered, we used to wait for particular program to telecast, evey sec was enjoyed, charaters were remembered and cherished, the 80's and early 90's were nearly sweeped by doordharshan hysteria and even some of our own kashmiri serials were excellent although technically very behind but script and act was superb, here I would mention some of the popular programs on doordharshan which used to be vogue in my days ......


Ramanaya/Mahabharta(80's): My blog will be incomplete without mention of these popular two epics, I remember deserted look on street every sunday morning, eveyone was so hooked to TV sets, it nearly generated mass hystria although technically not advanced but characters laid powerful impact and became house hold names, the voice of Harish Bhimanis saying MAIN SAMAY HOON was punch line at the start of mahabharata....

Lekhu:-Acted by talented mohan gohle ex Mr Joshi, is villager with termendous talent for science and is showing creating dish antenna out of umbrella!! in the end he is recognized by alok nath, simple and powerful script, my fav one!.

Flop Show:-Now this one was funny series misdirected by Jaspal bhatti:), it has many memorable episodes like chief guest, government officer, death of telephone, tenant, movie making....

Street Hawk:-well it was first english serial on doordharshan, story of cop, jesi mark who is injured now act as police trouble shooter eliminating the crime using special all terrain bike capable of 300 miles/hour speed designed by urban crime, the theme was simply rocking with fast paced bike.

Surbhi:The very entertaining and informative program and was hosted by Sidhdharth Kak and Renuka, it made TV interactive first time by question answer session like turning point another famous science program on doordharshan.

Chitrahaar- The first ever countdown on TV, it was telecasted every wed and fri around 8pm.it was enjoyed by everyone coz of dinner time.

Malgudi Days:-now who could forgot this!, it used to start with theme taana na taana na na:).

Tipu Sultan:-I remember blast at hyderpora every timewhen this serial used to start:), just kiddin and it was most watched coz of media hype and powerful script.Hyder Ali, I suppose was more popular character than tipu sultan itself.

Mungerilal ke haseen sapne:-Simple Comedy acted by very good actor Raghuvir Yaadav, Mungerilal is shown to day dream whenever he has to accomplish any task.

Karamchand:-The very first ever detective serial acted by talented actor Panjak kapoor and Sushmita mukerjee as kitty.The Carrot act was famous, the another serial in late 90's tekikat acted by vijay anand.

Kashish:-Acted bySudesh Beri and Malvika Tiwari,a director falling in love with his heroine., director is shown as egostic.

Jungle book:-well it was literally vogue among us ,the character moghli, leela, bagira and sher khan voice backed by nana patekar were household names and offcourse the song " jungle jungle baat chali hai pataa chala hai, chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai:)

Turning point:-Another good informative program hosted by Giresh Karnand and latter by mahesh bhatt and ofcourse prof yashpal questions at end.

Cartoons:-besides jungle book the popular were ducktales and talespin,remember uncle $chrodge.....

Kakkaji kaheen:-acted by very talented om puri, om puri used to laugh at end of very sentence this theme was popularized in some chewing tobbaco also.

Mile sur mera tumhara:well this was shown everyday, it was very well made, it gives glimpse of different cultures and religions of India.

Fatichar:-this one was pure comedy acted by talented panjak kapoor:).

Circus:-Directed by aziz mirza and made shahrukh the superstar of TV after fauji.

Nukad:-another flick by aziz mirza, I recall it had character called khopdi:)

then I have faint memories of buniyaad and humlog, I cannot remember every serial down the line, if u have anything to add, please comment to th blog:)

Workout Catch-22

From last 3 months or so I am planning some Athletic activity but cannot figure out and it has become catch 22 situation for me coz of my tight work schedule, earlier I though to cycle down to office from home but dropped plans on seeing the road conditions:) then planned to jog early morning and something urgent poped up and again dropped then I decided to try my hands at shadow boxing, again dropped it; hopely in coming month I will start something that will put me back on my original track; also working all day with little activity is not coolest idea to hang around; as amatter of fact it reduces productivity, it remind me of article I had read before regarding famous chess player Garry Kasprov who lift weights and runs like a professional Athlete to remain in peek condition, hopefully one good workout will change the equation for better.

Face Of India and Yo Man!!

The values portrayed in movie today surprises me, is this Indian value system or Hindi version of English value system??.where are we heading as India?? well I feel copying the culture of other country makes one Clown not Hero because the problem with the rat race even if you win you are still a rat and unfortunately we judge progress of India by switching TV and watching picture perfect situation all sun n shine of entertainment industry ; the real face of India is something different,all talks of mp3, wifi,mobile gadgets is crap when the basic problem in India remains unsolved.How many villages in country have proper supply of water,electricity,health care and basic education; there is ugly face of poverty and many people still sleep on roads, there big problem of child labor, just watch a small boy selling umbrellas or match box in scorching heat or bone chilling cold just for few coins or so, I sometimes feel the great movie of Bimal roy, Do Biga Zameen can be still recreated as reality in many part of India where people are saving every coin just for very very basic needs, we are far deatttached from this reality, we can only have symphaty but we need real emphatic Attitude and look the world from their point of view.
The key to modernization is to be what we are and accept our culture and be proud about it and not choose to be second version of someone else.Off course competition is healthy but only we we use it as measuring scale for progress against ourselves .
What we need is a great vision, we need to work on our existing resources, we need to emulate our thinking pattern based on great visionaries India ever produced otherwise we will end up as Circus where everyone will be just a clown.

Bearing Grudges, Should We?

Well recently out of the blue, I came across beautiful piece of story about two friends, I liked it a lot and I decided to post good blog on it.We often collect grudges over the years; refuse to forgive and you know what?, we hurt ourselves most.Should we bear Grudges or not?, well friends read on and decide yourself.

Jim and Jerry had been childhood friends but for whatever reasons, the relationship fell apart and they hadn't spoken for 25 years.Jerry was on his deathbed and did not want to enter eternity with heavy heart .So he called Jim, apologized and said"let us forgive each other and be done for the past."Jim thought it was a good idea and went to visit Jerry at the hospital.
They spend couple of hours together and catching up on the last 25 years and patching up their differences.As Jim was leaving, Jerry shouted from behind, "Jim, just in case I don't die; remember, this forgiveness does not count", Life is too short to hold grudges-it is not worth it.

Moral:Life is too short to be little.......

Einstein's Dream!!

Albert Einstein literally hero of physics had one dream of unification of gravity and electromagnetism, as a matter of fact in his last years at Princeton, New Jersey, he left unfinished work on unified field theory. If idea would have been clicked then gravitywill be able to produce electricity and vice versa, sounds cool!. As high school students, we know that Electrical and magnetic forces were unified long back and set of Maxwell equations tell it all, as science enthusiastic, we know it very well that if we wrap wire in form of coil around nail and then plug wire to battery, we see that nail behaves as magnet!
Well, in Einstein first unification paper in 1925 the mathematical equations of General Relativity(Field theory of Gravitation) were not suitable for describing all the components of the electric and magnetic fields. Indeed, none of Einstein's unification attempts ever reproduced the free-field Maxwell equations.One of the reason of his unsuccessful attempt was that Einstein was loggerheads with ideas of quantum physics and it is said that when Heisenberg published his Uncertainty principle, Einstein rejected it straightaway and have quoted "God does not play dice with the world".Theoretical physics has devised new method called String theory for realizing Einstein dream and even now they offer us to see the world in five dimensions, well the quest goes on....

Glimpses Of Ancient Kashmir......

Continuing with my previous blog on Kashmir history, here I will provide brief snippet of early inhabitant of Kashmir since it is not possible to give exhaustive treatment here, I will opt for brief history although it took me nearly two weeks of research to arrive at this topic and I am still working on it:). Nilamata Purana, which is considered to be the oldest source of Ancient history of kashmir and according to which the aboriginal inhabitants of kashmir were Nagas , they were serpent worshipper, according to legend, kashmir was huge lake and Anata drained the water out by plough and the name Anatanag is named after him.Springs or Nag, River and Lakes in kashmir are of religious and cultural importance . Indo Aryan came to valley when the river saraswati in Punjab dried up although they faced tough opposion from nagas, Aryan seeked permission from Nila,the king of nagas, to settle in Kashmir and they adopted the religious and cultural practices of nagas.
In 1960, Archaeological department of India made excavation at Burzahom site, srinagar, it revealed inhabitant of Kashmir were pit dwellers, they used to live on karewas (dried piece of lake) in pits , they used to dig the pits using various polished stone tools, living in pits protected neolithic people from harsh cold winter of Kashmir.In pits, pieces of ash, charcoal and pieces of pottery were found, some of the pits were embedded with ovens on which people cooked their food. The excavation also lead to the discovery of some valuable bone and stone tools in form of harpoons,axes, arrowhead and stone paintings with hunting scene carved on it.After excavations at burzahom, many other sites such as Begagund, Gofkral, Hariparigom, Olchibag, Pampur, Panzgom, Sombur Waztal, and Brah were excavated and they provided similar clue regarding tools and house used in Neolithic times.But excavation at Burzahom will remain special.



To be Continued........

Balloons are Smarter than Us!!

Just watch all colorful balloon who go up high in air at some amusement park and there is pearl of wisdom hidden there.Taking things and ourselves less seriously can be better sometimes since balloon travel higher only when light air is inflated into it now imagine what happens if tie heavy stones at the end of small balloon;on the journey called Life, it becomes important to unload the unnecessary load; someone has rightly said, those who travel higher travel light......so have fun & Joyride......................................Happy Weekend:).