We Indians have come a long way in television viewing. Since 1982, with the advent of TV sets in the home of every Indian to facilitate viewing of the Asiad and thereafter, the coverage of the papal visit in ‘85, a lot of ground has been covered. Those were the days, when the Doordarshan news channel used to announce the inaugural transmission of their stations all over the country with a remarkable regularity. Starting with the Humlog-Buniyad evenings, graduating with more sophistication through Khandaan-Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi-Prannoy Roy’s ‘The World This Week’-Sidhartha Basu’s ‘Quiz Time’ with his ever smiling hostess during late evenings, plunging into mythology through the Ramayan-Mahabharat Sunday mornings when the whole nation came to a standstill over that one hour, moving onto the ‘saas-bahu’ serials during late nights and finally into the numerous reality shows, television viewing has indeed taken great strides forward, despite the aping of certain formats from popular western programmes. News coverage has also improved with almost hourly coverage of more issues, considered trivial earlier and encompasses larger areas.
However, there are two disturbing trends that I see – one being, an increase in unruly and uncouth behaviour on reality shows, where winning at any cost seems to be the aim and the other, a slew of crass programmes that beats one's imagination! To cite an example, the swayamvar of Rahul Mahajan – now, what credentials does he or his predecessor (with their questionable past) have, to be icons for the young generation, is something that beats me. Quality needs to be maintained with the overall aim of moulding the future generations to understand and imbibe correct behaviour towards betterment of the society and bring up a disciplined nation. Give us good, clean and interesting entertainment please!!
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