“I’m hard press for time. You better walk fast or clear off from my path. I won’t forgive you if you cause me to miss this week’s episode of my telenovela.”

That was Ama shouting on an octogenarian who has impeded Ama’s movement. That was because the old lady was walking slowly owing to her old age.

This is the generation we have brought forth. Morality has been eroded and stripped down to its skeletal shame.

I have no problem with these telenovelas being televised. The tenacity with which we adore and worship them to the detriment of our socio-cultural life these days is the problem.
Mothers are rushing from their workplaces to their homes to catch a glimpse of telenovela; shopkeepers have become deaf to calls because they’re busily watching telenovela; the little kid has no respect for the elderly because she sees no wrong mimicking her favourite telenovela star.

The kid has no respect for family business meetings, family worships, family travels, does not do school assignment all because he/she does not want to miss a single scene of the telenovela.

What is becoming of us as a family, as a community, as a society and as a nation?

Our generation seems to...............


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