No kidding

Best visuals I like on TV are adverts. It is true we are one of the most kids friendly society but in media ‘kids sell’ everything. Starting from tractor, number of insurance companies, ready soup sachets, washing powders, milk flavoring, banks, toothpastes, cars, soaps anything we can think of the storyline is written around kids and most are interesting ones.

Another growing area is cartoon stories from scriptures. Quality of cartoons are very good and stories naturally interesting. By the time they cover stories available from ancient india, there wont be too much of new creative storyline required for at least a decade!! Not just cartoons even serials are dominated by kids oriented stories with baby meera, babay zhansi, baby krsna, balika badhu, babyish bandini, standup comedians … kids are everywhere.

In our block all the kids are out in the evening with their mums and age wise or not they all are playing in various groups, some in strollers and some with their mums and grandmas. Even dance instructor comes and coach bollywood dances in open air sand pit to pre school kids. Koi bole nahi ke ‘pappu cant dance saalaa’. Evenings are full of live human music in common pedestrian zone with random talks and games. Post dusk, they all go inside. And after dinner some are out again with their partners for a walk. Some gujarati neighbours are taking others through steps of garba in preparation for navaratri. In the morning most you see again outside gates awaiting school buses.
Kids rule morning or evening! Considering most have 1 kids each still…