Watching TV and Chillen in schools

In India, known as a plural society, as a family we would sit together and watch television. The digital packages now provide around twenty or twenty-five news channels in English or Hindi; discounting the regional lingo ones. The English and Hindi ones are the ones I would understand, along with most of the billion people in the subcontinent. A fifty-fifty ratio these, if I talk of the English one on the morning of the 10th of April 2010, Anderson 360 on CNN News fabulously (here) and concernedly reported on how suicides in schools because of the increased pressures to either perform or bullying is a concern. Anderson is concerned. And this side of globe while we get concerned too, the news after a point does not makes much sense; perhaps because we can contribute nothing. To get to see something nicer now we will flick the channels. Two flicks and we find the CNN-IBN, which is an Indian and a CNN collaborative. IBN is reporting of school children tortured and beaten on wrist-slashed by the school teacher, somewhere in a remote village of the country.

While both the TV channels rightly highlight this issue while spoiling our taste from the news we see and hear, we some in the family, look at each others faces, silently, with our eyes wondering what difference does it makes – India or America, we as adults probably just need to be easy on chillen, wherever we come from – Rural remote or Urban high class.