Society India is a very fast changing country. Its buzzing economy has brought a sea-change in the Indian social, political, economical and cultural life structure. As for as politics and economy are concerned they are boring subjects but if we talk about the culture and society, we notice innumerable ‘funny incidents’ that happen everyday, almost in every nook and corner of the Indian society. Progress in telecommunication and Media sector has dazzled the semi-literate population of India. Most of the Indian population has access to cell phones. Every household has a TV set ‘Equipped with’ tens of TV channels that entertain the Indians round the clock. Though most of the Indian middle class is jobless but even then they don’t have spare time. Sports, Yoga, religious and daily soaps keep them busy throughout most of their life time. Indian mind is divided into three parts: Cricket, religion and bollywood and rest of the issues are ‘no-issues’ for the youngest generation. It is the proven fact that sports, religion etc keep almost every nation obsessed with them but some sections are not affected by the frenzy created by them. But Indian communication revolution has left no section of society to think freely. Middle class holds the fate of every nation but this ‘TV virus’ has entered into the mind of the very basic part of Indian household that is called ‘gharwali’ (Indian House wife).
Morning Indian house wife remains, mostly, inside the house but knows every thing what is happening in the real and reel life of every bollywood or Hollywood celebrities. First of all she wakes up her ‘TV set and also the Yoga guru’ in the morning. After taking some ‘make-slim’ ‘ayurvedic choorna’ (powder) she wakes her ‘hubby’ and the ‘tinny-tots’ to have their ‘yoga class’. If anyone ‘dares’ to object her ‘military orders’ then the ‘senior most’ member is punished which is usually the creature who is popularly called ‘pati dev’ (husband). And the punishment given to him is the daring task of preparing tea and breakfast on Sunday or on the day of holiday. And this Sunday or the day of holiday is not meant to be a holiday for the ‘pati dev’ but is holiday of ‘Biwi’ who regains and regenerates her powers to ‘coup with’ the ‘coming up challenges of the next week’s daily soups. After the Yaga class the next of the work is wrapped up and ‘patidev ji’ and ‘children’ are sent outdoor. After sending her husband to office and children to school, ‘Biwi’ performs her other duties as fastly as she can like a Japanese robot and finishes her work within the ‘set time limit’.
Noon The noon time is the time when she is ‘with all her senses’ busy. Even a leaf does not shake during that time.she keeps her breaths under such a control that if any one else sees her she looks like a well decorated statue sitting on the ‘sofa set’. She heaves a sigh of relief only when it is the ‘advertisement time’ in between any of her favorite ‘tv serial’. But even then she does not remain free. She rushes to the kitchen and brings something to control her appetite that is instigated by some ‘serious change’ in the situation of the serial. As this ‘serious situation’ progresses her speed of ‘swallowing’ increases. It does not end here. It is the ‘co-incident that her ‘food item’ finishes at the ‘break-time’. She once again rushes to the kitchen to ‘enjoy’ something new and on her return is welcomed by a ‘size-zero’ add. She compares the model with her own figure and decides to reshape some of her body parts. For this daring task she plans to eat less and immediately keeps the ‘whole plate’ aside, which she had just brought from the kitchen. She waits anxiously for the ‘end of the break time’ and forgets her ‘size-zero’ plans when sees a new ‘fast food’ item add. She immediately decides to bring that food item home when she will visit the market. Thus most of the Indian house wives spend their noon while racing from the kitchen to the TV set and from the Sofa set to the kitchen. In between she prepares food for lunch and dinner. Sometimes she gets something burned in the frying pan and she has to make new plans make the best use of that ‘burned stuff’. She creates a new dish and experiments it on her husband. If the husband is of ‘George Bush’ type then this new dish decorates the dustbin and if the husband is of ‘Manmohan Singh’ like quality then he performs the job better than the dustbin. Thus this ‘we two our two’ family is handled by an Indian house wife.





February 2nd, 2011
Param 


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