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ShareLike, our health minister has discovered that the only way to curb population explosion is by encouraging people to watch so much TV that they lose interest in sex. And that's a stroke of genius, considering husbands of women hooked onto the countless soaps about scheming saas and bitchy bahus have admitted to being distracted by loud music and sound effects each time they look at their wives. The minister also believes that watching TV might lead to lesser crime -- because most seasoned criminals would get an inferiority complex after being subjected to news channels which show some politicians breaking the law or pulling off scams with effortless ease.
While the rest of the country is yet to take our health minister seriously, his colleagues across party lines have got down to not only intense television viewing but also taking their role in the Parliament seriously -- by raising objections to shows like Sach Ka Saamna. Politicians have a problem with the basic concept of the show -- telling the truth. Now, that's ironical in a land that's the birthplace of Raja Harishchandra and Mahatma Gandhi, who even wrote a book called My Experiments With Truth.
Poor John Logie Baird! He died of a stroke in 1946, though it's not clear what it was on TV that triggered the stroke. Chances are it was an early version of MTV Roadies. Baird invented television with a lot of difficulty -- including being burnt by a 1000-watt electric shock after predicting Rakhi's swayamvar on TV.
My advise to any husband ready to risk the truth on primetime TV about extra-marital affairs -- go ahead, make your wife rich by winning Rs1 crore on Sach Ka Saamna and losing it to her in alimony.
