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Jabberwock: Ekta Ki Mahabharat

Click on the link above to read a Delhi blogger’s hilarious send-up of Ekta Kapoor’s forthcoming Mahabharata serial.

It’s a must-read.

At times it almost reads like something I’d have written myself. And I even started to write a spoof, titled ‘Serial Motherers’. The problem is that since I’m also a ‘Mahabharata-wallah’, so to speak, it could be misconstrued.

So it’s a pleasure and a relief to be able to read someone else doing it so well, probably better than I’d ever have done.

Which also makes me think: We desperately need something like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in India, or even an SNL. Arguably, we do have shows similar to SNL, but not at the level that the US show does, not with such marquee talent doing guest spots week after week.

A desi Daily Show would be great. As it is, most of our news channels are already dangerously veering over into self-mockery. It’s time someone took the hawaa out of their inflated condom-balloons and made them go tai-tai-phiss!