REDKP
19-Feb-2023
A Tv set, oh how badly the same keyboard has bashed it. Flashback some 400-odd days ago to that type out bashing our media, whose title was "TRP: I Will shout as much as possible 🙆." the first reaction:
" If I watch such debates for the next ten days, then I'll firstly become a revolutionary and will break my 18-year-old tv set the first, my friends. The anchor here neither lets his panellists speak nor is a constructive debate going out in the above instance. The guy needs to be in a campaigning stage my dear friends (Yes, it is his style but respecting your panellists only makes a debate neutral and your medium needs the panellist not vice-versa.). Well just think if his energy was converted to mechanical energy."
But it becomes imperative to acknowledge what the very same tv set offered in terms of memories and intellect. As someone who has not been bought up completely under the smartphone generation, it is the transition from cable tv connections to the set-top box that represents this keyboard warrior. There are quite a few instances to support this claim.
Instance 1: A song or an alarm?
As they say "Old is Gold," if someone zooms past my Spotify playlist, it will be concentrated on all these older songs rather than the newer releases. If someone invades my AirPods, the person could end up finding me silently vibing to something old. That's the tweet. But this particular song will be remembered as a classic by many, I go the same way but then as a toddler whenever this played on the radio or television, If I had fallen asleep, the initial few lines were the alarm for the awakening and revolt. Since then, till the present day time frame, nothing much seemed to have changed though. The sound receptors seemed to have been set to those older tonalities and it doesn't seem to change any sooner. Thanks to that TV set that set this tonality.
Instance 2: The cricket-crazy john in the making
This moment, the iconic words by Ravi Shastri and this match were the first big cricketing memory I have in the flashes. Still, Remember how Sehwag was dismissed for a second ball duck trapped leg before wicket or lbw by Lasith Malinga. His yellowish hair, dude, was a trend amongst cricket fans back then. This moment seems to have built that passion towards the game.
That passion never seemed to have ceased, in the past six years, since 2017, the fever has increased. Every test series that the Indian Cricket team has either watched or the least online scorecard has been followed. I am someone who has followed at least six home test seasons and two overseas SENA test cycles ( South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia). Mind you! I followed that New Zealand test series in 2020, where everything was green and inswinging when the class 10 boards were hanging on the neck, that was the craze around. Oh, this requires a separate story now. It is a lead for something brewing in the future at the moment.
At this moment when the keyboard is running on and hands have been breathing on fire of words at @12:17 P.M. on a parallel side the India-Australia test is being tracked on the Disney+Hotstar, with India chasing a target of 115 in the 4th Innings.
Instance 3: The Home theatre
Missing the theatrical experience of a few movies is a regret. This movie being witnessed on a Satyam cinema screen could have been just lit with the Ice+Fire combination. An iconic entry scene anyone could be dreaming of is followed by that iconic song sequence and this statewide hunt sequence. Oh, My week is made. That was the feeling that is attained whenever this movie aired on satellite television, just throw all the business off the deck and keep your eyes glued on the television. Wow! Just nostalgia that I experienced during the lockdown phase. Interestingly, could find this movie's Hindi dubbed version titled "The Smart Hunt" lying for free on the ZEE-5 App.
Instance 4: Floods on the Television
The Date was December 1 and 2 of 2015, when the El-Nino conditions just led to the waterlogging of Chennai and its neighbouring districts. It was just "Barso re Megha Megha..." not in such a positive sense. For the first time since its founding in 1878, the major newspaper The Hindu did not publish a print edition on 2 December, as workers were unable to reach the press building. The Southern Railways cancelled major train services and Chennai International Airport was closed until 6 December. At the MIOT Hospital, 14 patients died after power and oxygen supplies failed. People lost their homes, belongings and most importantly their most loved ones. It was gloom settling in the floods, let that sink in now.
350 KM on the other side though, back in Bangalore, the settling gloom was a turbulent pain to witness on the television sets. Our school was coincidentally suspended for some exhibition on these very same days and guess what, all the Tamil entertainment TV channels were just suspended. With nothing around, the only source to watch something was the NEWS(North, East, West and South). At least for the first week of December, most of the time my eyes were glued to the news channels.
This was the first time, I was glued to the news channels with utmost seriousness. I was just eager to know what the hell was going on. Why...Why the _ on earth did this happen? How, who's responsible? Is it not just a natural disaster but a human-made one? Abe ghanta! I had questions which never generated until then. I was furious because many of my own was suffering due to the regime-to-regime besharam blame game and lack of planning.
All the frustration led to my discovery the fact that I could read Tamil Sentences, yes I declare that my spoken tamil is fairly good and I can read those relatively easier tamil sentences. Yes writing the language is the final frontier around, but then I struggle to read the tougher part of the language either, but then it is still better than not even knowing the language. Well, I am a KV pass-out, and we don't have dedicated time to learn the languages beyond the ones in their system. I was able to read those signboards on buses from the age of five provided that the word is not too tough to read. So, my footsteps towards this language itself are not that formal, it just came in an ebb and flow.
Yes, this turbulent situation gave me an addiction towards news channels. For the next four years, I woke up at 6:00 A.M. to place myself on the desk setup in the drawing room, with the Television switched on with a news bulletin running around and assignments breathing the fire of my hands.
To conclude, it needs to be understood that Television has its aura and has given unforgettable moments in such a manner that I could trace out my Autography from the past.
"Without looking into the future, past cannot be written. What on earth was inferred for the future?"
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