For the Love of Writing!

There was a time when we used to get dragged back in the house for playing outside for too long, not pushed out of it for using cellphones, computers and other gadgets for hours. When families sat together for a meal, they had each other to talk to, not some other people on their phones. The wired landlines were mainstream and the house with a cord less phone was considered to be upper class (even those cord less phones had an operating range from their sets!). This was the time before the new century kicked in and when you tell about this time to kids/ teenagers today, they will certainly be surprised, a lot! The new web series by TVF, titled 'Yeh Meri Family' takes you to a trip down the memory lane to relive those times. The story, told from the perspective of a 12 year old boy Harshu (Vishesh Bansal), is set in Jaipur, Rajasthan during the summers of 1998. It kicks off when Harshu's school closes for the summer vacation and revolves around his mother (Mona Singh

                                              *Warning: The following content may contain potential spoilers* Episode 1 starts streaming, it's daytime, and you witness a dog falling from a high rise building and meeting the floor with obvious outcome, smashed out of life. This probably is the first and strongest signal that the content that is about to unfold will be unabashed, uncensored and may be even gore at times. This may sound like a far stretched comparison, but it kind of reminded me of the beginning of Game of Thrones, when Ned Stark beheads the man in front of his sons. Although there are many differences between the 2 scenes, yet both serve the purpose of setting up the tone of the series. The series, currently streaming on Netflix, is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Vikram Chandra. Now you have to take into matter that the book in question is a 900-page epic, so to completely justify it through a series will be too difficult to achieve (assuming that