REALITY SHOWS defining new linmits of OBSCENITY...........

Our media has gone from bad to worse in the last decade. Its only when the freedom of press comes under threat due to its falling standards of reporting or creating a furore much cheap to its image that self-appointed moral guardians like Prannoy Roy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,come to the fore,,,,,,,,,in all its defending plea.....and amid the verses of media-freedom chanting, a visit to the Race Course to sooth their nerves... Once the issue gets a breathing space, the same Mr. Roy puts it in cold storage only to rake it up again, for the media to have some self-regulations once its ruthlessly exploited, foolishly explored freedom as Barkha Dutt's 26/11 coverage unveiled, comes under the govt. scanner and public outrage..........

Such is the horde of getting TRPs that the morality factor has finally been thrown to the winds....obscenity in the form of reality shows has been the hallmark of these channels..... Nudity, cheap talks, third rated jokes like Sidhu types, abusive language, skimpy clothes for the woman have been the nucleus of such reality shows,,,,,,,,,,,,using disgraceful language and repulsively demoralising attitude being the bench mark to have gaping audience wonder-stuck...........

The recent reality show ISS JUNGLE SE MUJHE BACHHAOA, depicting Negar Khan justifying her skimpiest clothes to being so--as in real life.........with rain drenching sequences and vulgar hand and body movements shows their desperation to catch some wondering eyes to climb up the success ladder. With deep cleavages highlighting the upper protruding cusps to their maximum exposure and waist covering hardly anything worth the name.... Negar Khan and the women of her ilk deserve to be in Tarzan's land to be in their so - called real self...........

Earlier in some dance and singing competitions for the talent hunt, the infighting and abusive hurling at each other by the judges and subsequent disrespect shown to the kids with crispy and spiced humiliation has had its impact in some nervous breakdown cases. That we need a deviation from the path ethically expected from as widely seen and as popular a medium as t.v.--- just for its TRP's is a sad commentary in a nation that spurts up in a jiffy with Brinda Karat's and Shanti Bhushan's holding Jantar Mantra and Supreme court to ransom over one politically milking topic or human violation incident.

That such serials intruding even children and living-rooms do leave an impressionable mark shouldn't be ignored nor argued on the basis of one Barkha Dutt or some other anchor shuttling with a microphone from one corner to another in some talk-show and jumping for some fundamental rights issue.

At the end of the day----its cheapness, vulgarity, exploiting a relation and disrespect enhancing denominator that we are looking at. . . To counter it on the barometer of liberalism, fundamental rights, progressive outlook and some fun loving categories is nothing but a venomous intrusion on our wisdom and sense of judicious judgement. Its time for mature barons of media like Prannoy Roy to rise above their subtle attitudes and do demarcate a self-regulatory authority rather than crib and cry every time over the split milk.

The milking of such reality shows in the mean time will milk whatever morality that we are left with....... will somebody talk of GLOBAL WARMING and GREEN HOUSE effect of man's existence as civilised beings........................... TIME TO SAVE A THOUGHT FOR.........................