Succumbing to CAS

Yes, finally, after much of deliberation, I broke my principle of standing against the use of the idiotic set top box and bought one last week. Only one aspect made me go for it - the return of DMK to power in TN which was earlier instrumental in Chennaiites alone suffering this disease. I felt I was missing my favourite movies, sports and channels like Discovery and National Geographic and so had to force a reversal of my ideals. Just the week before I bought (May last week), every channel was swamping with news of Rahul Mahajan and his drug case that I got so fed up with no alternate channels to watch. This just pushed me further to go for STB.

God only knows why Chennaiites (including me) were so inept and not agitate like people of North do when CAS was introduced. The recent agitation against reservation policy is a classic example of difference in the way people take up issue in the North and South. The Tamil nickname 'thayir sadam' suits us just fine.

The STB is black in colour and aptly, it will a "black box" in the history of Chennai life for ever.