stories, stories and more stories!

Although the title sounds more like an irritated response of civilians to justifications given by their political representatives, but I do not wish to elaborate in that direction. After the assistance to a marathon cooking session for roomies, was awake early in the morning. In anticipation of what promises to be a historic Wimbledon final, there’s a bit of time to collate a few thoughts. I’ve followed a strict routine, since a few weeks now, of NOT being glued to computer screen during weekdays post work hours. This has been working well, I think. But conversely, weekends have been more or less lazy surfing.

I stumbled upon very old interest in Panchtantra fables. Wheels of time bring back old interests and hobbies. I am sure that the moral perception of my demographic generation was built by television series’ on early nineties. Ramayana & Mahabharata televised with special interest and nudging of late PM, Rajiv Gandhi was a very thoughtful step. Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle book and the legendary Sher Khan voiced by Nana Patekar. Sunday morning Chitrahaar and Disney were as much a family affair as Balaji soaps of the day.

The reason I’m so with the impacts of those TV series’ in the thinking of the generation is because those are the only way I can visualize those characters. Arun Govil was the Ram, Deepika Chikhaliya was Sita and the great Dara Singh as Hanuman. Doesn’t matter how many re-makes people make, these won’t get erased from the head. Same goes for Panchtantra short stories, Malgudi Days and the likes.

The weirdly interesting fact is after a long time when you read the story, atleast I feel you settle upon an evolved understanding of the simplicity of the intent. Like the main characters are mostly animals and they talk of *Dharma* (the moral conduct). These may be evolved folk lore passed on to generations after generations in vernacular dialects. Would suggest to go through a few of them for sure.

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