Generation Gap

Sometimes the generation gap hits you really hard. Like the other day Nidhi was complaining about her cable being out and not being able to watch anything on TV. So I told her..well, theres always Doordarshan which is the state run channel thats free to air and doesnt go over cable and you can get it if you have an antenna on your tv. So she was trying to get a handle on these astounding facts:

1. There are strange people out there who broadcast WITHOUT a satellite
2. You can get these channels without paying ANYTHING.
3. There is this thingy called an ANTENNA which sits on top of your TV (or in my family's case it used to sit on the top of our building and my dad would go up there and fiddle with it and yell "can you see just one image now? How about now? Now? Oh bugger it!!")

Aah..the good old days when we only had Doordarshan. They were like this:

You only got one channel, and they put stuff that would only make farmers happy, and their newsreaders never cracked a smile and were seldom younger than 50 years of age. And the image was all double and grainy. And they grudgingly played songs and you could never watch an entire tennis match cos they would just cut the match whenever it was time for news. And they had some good programs all family oriented where the heroine was a housewife who saved her neighborhood. Or there was this other program where this ugly dude came down from the US looking for a wife - except he dressed just like us and spoke like us and even had a bad haircut. Not very convincing. But hey, my sister watched this stuff so much she had spectacles thicker than the bottom of a drinking water glass by the time she was 6 years old.