I should have been in India celebrating Christmas with fire crackers as we did last year. But God decided otherwise and I was staying put in Geneva.  To make things worse, I could not not cook anything interesting because as per Indian rules of engagement during Chicken Pox, babu could only eat rice and dal + vegetables. So to give solidarity I had to do the same.

So the only thing I could do extra was to turn on the television on the Christmas day. The only Indian channel I get (Asianet) was promising special programmes for Christmas so I thought that should help me to pass some time.

Well it turned out that there was indeed nostop programmes for Christmas but Jesus, there was nothing about Christmas per se. Look at the menu.

7:30 AM - Interview with Chitra (Malayalam Film singer)

9:00 AM - Heartmates (Programme by Film starts and directors)

12:00 Noon - Perumazhakkalam (Film), took 4 hours with advertisements

18:00 hrs - Achuvinte Amma (Fil), again 4 hours with advertisements

You thought the film onslaught is over. Well, not yet. There was Kavya Madhavan speaking essentially about herself (thank you), at 10:00 at night.

I often hear this nonsence in Malayalam channels and also from Malayalees about how Malayalees are so intelligent etc. Now if we assume that the channels feed people what they want and if what they want is films, film stars and more of it all through the Christmas day, it is not really giving too much of a brilliant picture of this intelligent community !

The good news is that I did not watch these. I went to office !!