| Address: | Kolkata, West Bengal |
Dear sirs,
The indian serials that currently come on your channel are negative in the extreme.
Though billed as “family shows”, most denigrate typical “family values” that would be universal in any culture. They especially debase indian / hindu / sikh family values to the lowest possible degree. These serials give no positive “values” our children may want to emulate. Often seeing these, children wonder, if this is what being “indian” means, is it worth being “indian”?
List of negative things they show is extensive. Here are just a few points -
* people constantly fall in love with one person, but get married to another.
* multiple marriages are common. Cast members get married multiple times, to multiple members of the same family and no one seems to bat an eye lid.
* “power of attorney” is misused on a regular basis to ruin the financial and business empire of people and yet, no one ever learns from previous mistakes!
* people lie, cheat, keep dreadful secretes and yet no one in the family ever seems to know! In “joint family” where every lives in such close proximity, it is amazing that regular lies are never caught!
* family members seem to constantly work to undermine each other.
* often, people are shown to arrange kidnap, murder and rape of their own family members with outside goons!
* at any time, anyone can get slapped! Domestic violence is rampant in these serials.
* everyone seems to harbour “secretes”, no matter how trivial, leading to terrible misunderstandings and grief for all concerned.
These serials do not reflect any aspect of india was know to be true. What they show does not reflect the india of yesterday or today. God forbid if this is the version of india yet to come!! Children who see these serials as possible mirrors of india and indian life are bound to be gravely disappointed when they get to india.
For example,
* amazingly enough, though set in “modern india”, women are still stereotyped as incurable gossipers and schemers who only work to undermine other women in the “family”.
* women wear expensive clothes and jewellery all the time – even in bed!
* though set in india, house servants are rarely seen.
* though set in india, everyone lives in huge palatial houses with massive rooms that would shame the americans!!
* no one ever does a decent days work. People come and go from "office" as if its another room in the house.
One really has to wonder as to why you show hindus / sikhs / indians in such a negative way. Btw – muslims are never shown in a negative light in these serials.
What do you get by berating your own culture?
What do you get by mis-representing india and indian way of life?
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