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What is the right time for children to get exposed to TV? What type of TV content is appropriate and at what age? TV is a passive medium which dulls all minds. Any multimedia screen stops the mind from functioning and stops its growth. All senses are engaged as you sit and watch. The engagement is not productive. After few hours of TV you feel dull and irritated. With nuclear families its easier to dump the child on the bean bag in front of TV as you go back to your chores and computer. Some parents have attached the eating habits of the child with TV. Its common to hear deals like this "If you want to watch Tom and Jerry then you will have to finish the food." "If you don't eat food then I will switch off the TV" Some children have got into the habit and use it as a bait for their parents "TV song and milk" "Chotaa bheem and roti" In the night when children characters apparently go to sleep kid as young as 2.5 years have...

He took the nation for a ride. He bludgeoned ordinary folks doing their everyday routine. He played with scores of human life and terminated them mercilessly. You spent crores of rupees for over a year in the name of fair trial, giving him exclusive jail room, manpower to protect, special judges and sessions court. How did you get that money? Through the taxes that the people killed paid to you for better part of your life. Why does TV media walking around in every nook and corner of country and world trying to ask people Does he deserve death or life? What sort of silly question is that? What kind of world are we living? Why do we encourage such media coverage? Why should be proud of home minister who gives kudos to judiciary who took away time from crores of cases pending in its cupboard to attend to this one? And today you have all the media hampering for sound bites and again following a judgement into the case of two filthy rich brothers over distribution of gas? It ...

Image via Wikipedia We choose our leaders through election process. We blame ourselves for bad governance because we did not go out in the heat or cold and cast our vote. We choose the TV channels based on our choice. There are whole host of choice out there. There are skimpy channels, sad/ugly/crying channels, godly channels, children focused, local content focused, movies, news. What we miss in the news channel is a breath of positive energy ? In spirituality we are taught to focus on the world within.If we can steady ourselves then the world around us will be anchored. How can we influence the TV anchors and management to move towards positive content? By reducing their TRP's? By street protest ? By human chain? By online poll ? By email chain? We can choose what we see. We can ignore sensation, tantalisation by news media . There are enough channels to choose from. We can come back to current news channel for weather report only, its the only time they are not pound...

Image via Wikipedia They love to tickle. They love to drive people mad by highlighting petty issues. They love to miss facts. They love their "sources". They are only acting as conduit for their "sources". If you are following the latest breaking news and coverage by the TV news media in India then you would have noticed that every channel is getting sensational. I don't know if they feel the sensation but they surely are transmitting. Even the business channels have caught on the bug and are having political spokesman on their prime time . Hello, aren't you suppose to focus on business and quarterly results. Outlook magazine publishes a report based on its sources and the channels pick up the allegations and start to beat them to death. They are seen to be inserting the micro phone in mouth of people who are creating controversies, just to get the sound bit. Suddenly that sound bite becomes the news. The person is branded as "confident...

She comes twice on TV from 7:10 PM to 7:40 PM and 10:30 to 11:00 PM on Aastha channel. The spiritual channel story in India is on same lines as that of Aaj Tak , which was run by local ads before the big boys put ads on them. Today Shivani, a Brahmakumari mentioned that 99% of the cause of anger and frustration is elsewhere, it is not in the spur of the moment, when you hurt somebody or get hurt by somebody. Instead of reacting instantaneously , or pestering the reaction in the mind post the incident till eternity , can you wonder "Why is that soul so angry, what is bothering her? I am sure there is something more than what she has told me now?". The chain of thoughts that emerge lead you to compassion, releases love vibrations into the air. Love has a very subtle medium to reach out. You cannot yell and throw around love and claim that you are helping somebody by your love. You have to surrender to love and let love take over. You cannot correct the world. You can onl...