Monday to Thursday blues

It drives the husband to pacing the floor in despair, children are distressed immeasurably because of it and all men find it truly nauseating!It’s the Monday to Thursday blues- a product of the monotonously repetitive saas-bahu sagas. If I say its driving us nuts, I’m probably understating the truth. It would be unreasonable to expect that you will be allowed to watch anything else between 8 p.m. and 12 a.m. The Indian woman fiercely guards her television set from the prying eyes of anyone who wishes to invade her ‘moments’ of utter bliss. The usual methods for fighting the Goliath of Hindi soaps have all ended in futility. Here are few of the tried and tested ones..
1)Come home early, tune in to your favourite channel and put on an ex-pression that radiates interest and enthusiasm hoping that she would not have the heart to change the channel at 8.But the gnawing and unfaltering hunger lying dormant in her awakens and she simply reaches for the remote at 8 and changes the channel giving you just about as much attention you pay to one fleck of sand on a sandy beach.
2)Watch the serial with her and make appropriate noises suggesting how utterly nonsensical its contents are. You have struck a direct blow at her intelligence, judgement and pride. One could anticipate the amount of tongue-lashing she would unleash for that carelessness. You had clearly underestimated her reaction.
3)Most of the dialogues can be spotted almost before they are out of the mouth. Make her realize how repetitive the dialogues are by completing them before the tv actresses do. Sometimes this can weirdly backfire. She’ll glare at you, impatient at the interruption. In all probability, you’ll be having yesterday’s leftovers for dinner. The Indian woman exercises her powers and she exercises them well.
4)A commercial break is a golden, heaven-sent opportunity when you can feel free to voice your opinions. It is the only time when the Indian woman is not thinking about the magnitude of misfortune involved in Tulsi’s life, her face dripping with sympathy. Tell her that you would like to watch the channel of your choice sometimes. She refuses point-blank or comes up with a sob-story so piquant that your imagined grievances vanish into thin air. The Hindi soaps have made her better equipped to meet life’s situations.
As for the rest of us,deep dejection is the feeling which is our constant companion nowadays. Kids- I feel sorry for the poor devils! So here’s a handclasp over the miles until the next idea brewing and stewing within, bears fruitition.