Gone are the days when the serials used to be such a fun.
The serials were so meaningful and interesting that everybody encouraged the young generation to watch them….. They had a lot of depth in them. We always completed our homework just to watch all those.

We sat and watched the celluloid every Sunday afternoon for a movie on our National channel, hope u have not forgotten our very own Doordarshan.

I still remember watching Chandrakantha, Ramayana and Mahabharata on National TV. Slowly and gradually Cable TV was introduced and today we have as many as 200 channels on our televisions.

As a kid I never liked the tea-time Dubbed English news on TV where the narrator would try and lip-sync the soberly dressed lady reporter unlike the ones today where reporters are hotter than the news.

There was a serial called Hip-Hip-Hurray which made me stick to my couch every Wednesday at 8 pm…

How can we forget I dream of Jeanie? where Jeanie did all the mischievous activities and master had a tough time fixing them ahh!!! so much fun all the time and not to forget adventures of Swami and his friends in Malgudi days. And many others like Duck Tales or our favorites Tehkikat or to say Byomkesh Bakshi (sorry for the spelling…)

Duck Tales ooooyooo!!!!

Was that Byomkeskh Bakshi????

Now, the situation has completely changed the other way around. At every push of a button on our remote control is a KKK-soap Kyunki, Kahani, Kasauti and I think Kab Khatam Hogi Kahani sorry for the’H’in it ,you see I cant beat Ekta in this ! All rich ladies laded and embedded with heavy saris and jewelry and tons of makeup throughout the day. You see them with make-up every time…even when they are sleeping, eating, shouting, talking to themselves, attending their husband’s demands also when they get up from sleep their saris are well ironed I don’t know what fabric is that , good the Raymond fabrics don’t hire goons to kidnap them to know the secret hahahaha……..

There is this one program titled KYUNKI …whatever, and it really has nothing related to its title. This show presents a family whose size can never be defined because of the many illicit relations
and children may come out at any stage of the serial bringing about a complete change in the dynamics of the family. The family includes a grand grand grand …………now cmon guys she is not that old grandma

I have never seen anyone smiling, joking, relaxing in the serial. It starts with actors growling and making funny faces and ends with the same, with lots of gali-galoch and rona-dhona in between. All characters speak like they have fevicol stuffed in their mouth and next in the lane comes the great great BJP loyalist Shree Shree Ma Tulsi who has not only maintained her weight but also added to her beauty 

and uss se bhi badi height is Bechari Baa, when the serial started, she was 70 plus and now after a gap of 3 slabs of 20-20 years still she is 80 plus..Kya baat he(need to ask her secret)..

seriously ekta kapoor is champion of bringing the conspiracies, churning out divorces by the dozen, remarriages at the drop of a hat ,needless scenes and the all angle extra effects makes u feel u are soon in the making of a cock eye in the name of Indian cullture and Indian Women

I watched the few episode of Ekta kapur’s Mahabharat.I am very much depressed to see this serial. It totally seems an AMERICANISED MAHABHARAT so far as costumes are concerned. The looks and dresses of the actor and actresses are like a westernised mafia don..

usse dekh ke lagta hai iska naam Kahani apne mahabhrat ki nahi kahani AAJ ke mahabharat ki hona chahiye….

THIS MAHABHARAT IS VERY DANGEROUS THE FOR NEW GENERATION because we have already seen the previous serial and movie and also read different books on Mahabharat.But most of the children of new generation do not know the story of mahabharat and they have not seen the old serial and movie. So they will have a wrong Idea about the characters of ONE OUR MOST POPULAR EPIC.

So moral of the story is, you cannot change epics, they are classics. But Miss. Ekta thinks she can change anything.. so she’s trying her best to ruin epics.

Ekta has done same with mahabharat which Ramu has done with movie sholay………..

But still the TRP of these serials are going on and on( with TRP ratings as high as 10).  Fail to understand what’s the taste of audience of today.  Isn’t there any other source of entertainment

Anyways, if anyone of you readers can think of more reasons for that lady’s success, do let me know! Not that I have anything against her in personal, but I am really amused at the way she has been succeessful in fooling millions of Indians!
May be because she has the “K” factor!

All I will say is “God save our generation from Ekta Kapoor”. I wish anyone could do something… some consumer court, high court or Supreme court… nope.. I think only janta court can do something on it….

Reality Shows – is next on my list….. So all you there beware!!! He he ha ha ha….

CiviCRM India team had an opportunity to attend the OWASP-conference, New Delhi. It was a two day conference but we – Kurund, Sunil & I decided to attend the second day training/workshops just to stay away from theoretical lectures. We landed in Delhi on day-1 evening to avoid any last minute rush. And we realized the temperature in Mumbai was much better and Delhi being a bit hot. We had a booking in Ginger Hotel – value for money i must say . Next day cool-morning we took rickshaw to Habitat-Center (the venue) and made exactly on time but the lectures due to some reason started late by an hour which was a bit disappointing. Workshops that we decided to attend ( based on lecturer’s profile ) were -
1. Application Security Assessment (Threats and Exploits) and
2. Web 2.0 Security

In Application Security Assessment we had sessions on – web security industry, attacks & trends, few security incidents/breaks, change in the attack trend, next generation attacks (sql injection, parameter tempering ..etc), security cycle, root cause of vulnerabilities (programming errors 64% and misconfiguration & other problems 36%), various entry points, tracing, url misinterpretation, handler mismatch, directory browsing, information leakage from errors, mysql errors, source code disclosure, malicious code injection, server side code injections, sql injection/poisoning, XSS, CSFR, session hijacking, injecting fault.

In Web 2.0 Security session included – web 2.0 overview, web 2.0 attack surface, CSFR, XSS, security critical areas, error handling and logging. Discussion mostly revolved around AJAX which could be next popular attacking platform.

All discussions were general and didn’t target any specific projects (like flaws in open source projects ..etc) but very certain that atleast 4 out of 10 would apply to your project. We really liked the examples/tricks that were shown, of course a few looked outdated/old. No doubt soon security assessment will be a major part of development cycle. Attending this session atleast has improved/changed my way of looking at web applications .