Kool's Commentary : March 1:Final Warning Pg111&135 - Page 43

Gaurav, Tata is such a great company! congrats! :) I can imagine end of this month being a crazy time! Good to see you here after days though! Good luck with deadlines!

Kools, I absolutely agree on the part about India and kids..My main point to move back was thinking that my kids might have a better upbringing there...but I do believe that it actually might be better here...hence I guess, USA will be home now for a long while! :)

Culture I think stems as much as what you learn at home, but also what you learn outside...The whole idea of aping the west blindly has gone so far that there is no sense of "culture" left anymore in today's kids...I have nieces and nephews and listening to their talks about college and kids and what goes on, it truly is a terrifying idea...I always feel, that kids once in school, learn whatever they do from other kids and their behaviors...sometimes you are lucky to have a child who shares everything they see and learn outside with you, but sometimes you just never know what they have observed and taken as a message...Children with mobile phones at 5th grade...and my cousin's daughter came home wanting one too simply cuz all the "cool' kids in her class had it...after explaning to her, she made statements like I hate my parents simply cuz they did not yield to her tantrums...I am not a mom yet, but I can imagine the immense pressure of raising kids in such a competitively bad world outside...I don't know how easy it is over here either, but I do know from families around me that they have somehow more control over their kids ( in terms of what they teach their kids, values, morals etc) and somehow a more relaxed upbringing overall..It is a bit overhyped about western culture and how kids here are into drugs and sex early on...I find it more suitable to the idea of metro cities in India now and the kids there...But again, I do love India and I would not mock it...This is just the present condition of how things are going on...I am not saying it should be archaic but blindly aping the West and not retaining own individual culture makes you feel like "na idhar ka na udhar ka"..it leaves you in the middle...but yes, I do agree on the count that you can be whatever you want to be...and wherever you live, you can retain your individual culture...just that upbringing should be strong and close enough for your kids to share their experiences with you, so you can teach them right versus wrong...some of the kids I know have such parallel lives at home versus outside...It is sad that parents have not an ounce of idea what the kids are upto!

Also, about Indian sanskaars and their portrayal...I don't see one single show on TV showing any semblance of sanskaars...everything is aped from western shows...swapping, multiple partners/husbands and what not...look at pre-marital sex being glorified in PR...in actuality which Indian household is alright with pre-marital sex? Not today even after all the westernization...PR is the biggest dhabba on any kind of morals that Indians have...and yes show westernization or glorify illegitimate relationships or incest or whatever but then don't give names like pavitra rishta and don't tout them as being sanskaars...

The hunger strike is mentioned in a couple of news articles about PR...apparently ARVI fans are on a hunger strike to protest for their re-union on the show..and some of them are going to march to filmcity to make this protest too :P LOL

The baba kalapi is talking about is some random spam message from some baba on the forum about marital relationships! I agree he has cme to the right forum :P