An Average Evening

Serial Killers

The time is 07:00 PM. The moment when battle music from popular Hollywood films blast through many of the households in Irinjalakuda. Yes it is the time when tele-serials haunt the average household. It has been over 15 years that houses in Kerala are suffering from the intellectual tyranny of tele-serials. Millions hypnotized by the stunning visuals followed by the aggressive background score that emits from the television set. I walked through the roads silently. But all that I could hear was the roar of Malayalam channels. Suddenly I stopped before one house, it was quiet. But then it started. Sarita Nair had mentioned the names. Yes, still haunted under illusions of a different kind. Bless the television.