oct.7 Fairy tales As an avid fairy tale fan I was mesmerised by Hans Anderson and Grimm .Some of the most popular ones like Cindrella .Hansel and Gretel and Snowwhite are all time favourites .They all had one thing in common, the evil presence was always a terribly cruel wicked step mother .So the children grew up with an image that step mothers are the most vicious species in the world .However it was not a threatening sceneario because fortunately very few kids have to contend with a step mother .(of course all step mothers are not vicious .I personally know one who brought up the kids with lot of love .) So there was just one relationship that was looked upon with suspicion and fear .Now thanks to the fairy tales Ekata (I am not sure about the no of A S I shd. put )Kapoor shows every one is scared .A little girl is apprehensive about her brother,s marriage because the bhabhi is ging to fight with her .The young bride has a number of worries 1 .the maa in law is going to tear her apart,2 the sis in law is going to be catty and worse her husband will surely fall into the clutches of another woman and may even have a love child tucked away .The new bride groom has all the similiar worries (though not of a harridon of a maa in law )the maa in law is traumatised because the Bahu is going to break the family .These daily soaps spread so much hatred and mistrust that I really worry about the social fabric .Especially the women characters are all wicked ,cruel scheming and malicious except perhaps Parvati and Tulsi ( they are the other extreme ).There should be a ban on such serials .Mahatma Gandhi said' See no evil ,Hear no evil and speak no evil .We watch evil .we hear evil and than ofcourse discuss the evil in great detail .Please Ms Kapoor let us revert to original fairy tales .