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Replaying Old Ads and Songs

Ever since I wrote that post on Malgudi Days, I have not stopped thinking about Indian Television and the shows/advertisements/jingles that we used to watch in ’80s and early ’90s. If you’re away from India, like me, then it is likely that you miss these shows much more and can’t wait to catch a glimpse of these.

I’ve tried to collect some of them in this post-

1. Ek Titli Anek Titli (Thanks Bong’o’P’ondit)- An old song that talks about the strength of unity.

2. Mile Sur Mera Tumhara- The objective of the video was to instill a sense of pride and promote unity amongst Indians, highlighting the different linguistic communities and societies that live in India. Created in 1988 by Doordarshan. (From Wikipedia)

3. Humara Bajaj Ad- We hardly get to see such genuine, patriotic ads these days!

4. Doodh Doodh Doodh- It’s fresh. It’s pure. It’s co-operative Milk! Not so sure about that anymore. The proportion of water is definitely greater than milk. Lovely ad though. 🙂

5. Surf Lalitaji Commercial- Bhaaaisaab! Need I say more? 🙂

6. Jungle Book- Chaddi pehen ke Phool Khila Hai 😉 Wasn’t he the hottest guy?

7. Mahabharat Opening Credits- Every Sunday morning, every single household in the country had this song blaring from their television sets..I’m dead sure.

P.S- I don’t mean to hurt the feelings of people belonging to other religious sects. It’s just a general recollection.

8. Cadbury India Ad (Kuch Khaas Hai)- Never seen a hotter batsman…seriously. 🙂

9. Yeh Joh Zindagi Hai- Beatiful Title Track sung by none other than Kishore Kumar and starring Shafi Inamdar, Swaroop Sampat, Rakesh Bedi and Satish Shah.

10. Orangie Orangie I love you Rasna!

11. Complan Commercial- The young stars in this ad are supposedly Shahid Kapoor and Ayesha Takia.

Famous punch line- I’m a Complan Girl! I’m a Complan Boy!

12. Old Liril Commercial (1975)- I’m surprised that they allowed a bikini clad woman to be aired in an ad in 1975. 😐

13. Surabhi can be viewed at Youtube. (Thanks Ulag- for reminding me)

Some ads I couldn’t find-Does anyone have these video?

1. Bajaj Ad- Jab mein chota bachcha tha, badi shararat karta tha…meri chori pakdi jaati…tab roshan hota Bajaj.

2. Vicco Turmeric Nahi Cosmetic ..Vicco Turmeric Ayurvedic Cream.

3. Boost Ad (Kapil Dev)- Boost is the secret of MY energy…OUR energy!

4. Priya Tendulkar as Rajani. When I tried searching for this, I only found hits relevant to Rajnikanth and Sivaji. 😦

5. Old Nirma Ad

Please feel free to add more to this list. I’ll edit this post accordingly. 🙂

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116 thoughts on “Replaying Old Ads and Songs

  1. oooh thats a huge collection……. I think this post will get you more visitors, not just on lookers but people who will keep this page bookmarked 🙂 ……

  2. @Dinsan

    Hopefully, it will help others reminisce those old days like me. 🙂 And then abuse the horrible serials that are aired these days!

    Thanks 🙂 Yes, it took me around 45 minutes. I didn’t know that Ankita is a full time actress now. That’s some news indeed.

  3. you know what u r doing here RUHI…do u have any idea….u r too good at this..after malgudi days now this…u trying to take me back to my school days..say my primary school days..thanks a lot…love you for this…all the videos in this post are just the best thing happened in Indian televison industry…..its something more than nostalgic now reading ur post..

    again that “jungle book” video…i used to watch the show every it was once aired after evening movie on sundays…

    u know wen i saw this video..i became sad,may be coz u made me miss my childhood a lot…damn i want live those days again……thanks a lot for this post..

  4. @Rohan

    Thanks 🙂 believe me, I felt exactly how you’re feeling. I went on a nostalgic trip and felt really upset! I wanted to be a child again and literally told my mom that I want my childhood back. Those were the days… 😦 Everything has lots its value now. I almost cried when I saw that Bajaj ad.

  5. Excellent list! I remember that liril jingle so clearly! I agree that creativity has taken a beating of late, even where movies are concerned. During the 70’s we had original and fresh movies, even if they were most sexist, less classy etc. At least they were original!

  6. Wow, brings back so many old memories. I haven’t seen all of the ad’s but many of them I have.

    The Humara Bajaj ad was excellent. Nobody’s ever been to repeat that ad. It was even translated in Punjabi and shown in here. It was Saada Bajaj, Tuhaada Bajaj and like that. Bajaj has been one company that has remained in India all the time. From Chetak’s to Pulsar’s. They’re good at what ever they do.

    Mogli is the dude man! I loved that and I love that tune still. In fact we torture our math teacher with that. We set the mobile phone on ringing and call each other and everyone has got that ringtone. Then we pretend that the phone has hung up and we play the entire song. It’s some scene in there I tell you.

    And wow, they are looking like Shahid Kapur and Ayesha Takia in that Complan ad. Nobody can ever forget that tagline I believe.

    Are you sure that ad was in 1975? I can’t believe it! Wasn’t Bal Thackery in power during those years lol?

    Great Post, roohi!

  7. ulag says:

    Wonderful post Ruhi.As everyone is saying its taking me back to my childhood days too. I used to be crazy about jungle book. I watched every episode but missed the last one(when Mowgli actually kills Sher Khan), i dont remember why, but i do remember i cried a lot for that!!![:P]….And “mile sur mera tumhara” has got to be the most patriotic song ever. It still gives me goosebumps. Noone has ever tried to do a song like that again. It truly celebrated the spirit of India – Unity in Diversity. Ofcourse Mahabharath held sway over the nation every sunday morning. They say that traffic was actually much lesser because everyone were at home watching it on tv 😛 . And yeh jo hai zindagi was such a hilarious show. Another song you could have put was the surabhi title track. That is a standard reminder of Sunday evenings for me, when i used to be hurrying up to finish my homework for monday 😀
    Watching all this makes me happy and sad. I guess thats what they call nostalgia.

  8. I know i’m repeating just everything everyone has said… but it’s truly nostalgic!
    I remember the days when i watching those Mowgli & Mahabharat serials everyday… I even knew those title tracks by heart…

    & I’m sad that we can’t remain children for ever… 😥

    Thanks for this great trip down memory lane!

  9. u know one thing ruhi…during my school days…this “jungle book” was at 6:30 pm sundays…so after 2 days of holidays,school will be again starting on monday morning….and this “jungle book” was the last enjoyable thing of the weekend..not even once r in my life i have done my home works before sunday night….so the end credits of “jungle book” always made me sad or weep..coz always after jungle a shit load of home works wer there

  10. @ Nita:

    Thanks Nita. I never watched this Liril ad in TV, but my mom asked me to put it up because it was very famous. 🙂 Even I enjoy old movies and serials so much! I hardly watch any of the new Hindi stuff…we can’t even compare these old ads/jingles/movies with the new ones on Television. Perhaps it had something to do with the limited TV time also. This added to the magic, perhaps. We hardly find the entire family sitting in the living room and watching TV together.

    Oh yeah! This Bajaj Ad is my absolute favorite, even though it’s for a scooter. There’s something so patriotic about it. Saada Bajaj…tuhaada Bajaj…:D Thanks for that input. Sounds really cute. There are lots of patriotic songs these days (those Vande Mataram ads by AR Rehman), but they can’t stand up to Mile Sur Mera Tumhara! So many actors, actresses, singers, cricketers…it was mind boggling.

    Mowgli was such a big thing during our childhood! 🙂 Those were the times when we were 100% “desi”, if you know what I mean. Now, we wouldn’t be caught dead watching Hindi serials etc.

    Yes, those two kids actually look like Shahid and Ayesha! 🙂 Damn cute.

    Liril ad– Even I asked my mom the same question. How did this ad manage to get released? She said that lots of bold movies had gotten released during that time, including Bobby (dimple kapadia wearing short dresses) and Julie (very controversial subject matter). So people were fine with this ad.

  11. @ ulag:

    You remember so much about Jungle Book! The only thing I remember is the opening title track. 🙂 Mile Sur really celebrates the true spirit of India and there is no way the new ones (called Vande Mataram) can match up to it. I feel so emotional whenever I hear this song.

    Yeh Joh Zindagi Hai was awesome! 😀 I can’t believe Satish Shah looked so young and even Swaroop Sampat. I had almost forgotten Shafi Inamdar and all…and can you believe that the title track was actually sung by Kishore Kumar??

    I will try to find the Surabhi title track and add it. Thanks for the suggestion. I felt so sad watching these old ads and serials yesterday…just wanted my childhood back. You can watch lots of old stuff at Do check it out! 🙂

    Thanks carrot. 🙂 I haven’t seen anyone do a post with old ads/serials and since I had been listening to this stuff since 2-3 days, I felt like doing a post. I knew that most of us would feel drawn to the oldies…nothing can replace our childhood and the sweet memories attached with it. Even though I love everything firang now, I still feel quite desi when I watch all this stuff.

    Yes, we can’t remain a child forever, but we can remain 12 at heart 😉 Right? Let’s do that.

    Same thing happened with Mahabharat with me. It used to be aired every Sunday morning at 9 am and I had painting classes from 10:15. So, as soon as Mahabharat used to get over, I used to run out of the door for my painting classes (which I used to detest). LOL. These serials were such an escape for us…from our daily routines and studies.

  12. @Ruhi: Yea, I know what 100% desi is like. Don’t you feel it’d be better if you didn’t have to worry while watching hindi serials? They can be fun sometimes you know. There’s one in which this chick keeps crying and doing nothing else. I know all of them do that but this one does ONLY that. I haven’t seen her doing anything else in all the episodes I’ve watched since like November or December I believe.

    And yeah, I’ve seen those movies, well some of them at least and I used to wonder at their courage back then. Dimple Kapadia is rather hot btw. I guess we’ve been getting more and more orthodox with time then. But things have changed, bikini’s and semi-nude women are all over Television today.

  13. @ ish:

    Yes, I do wish that I wouldn’t have to worry while watching hindi serials. But it’s another thing that I don’t watch any of the recent serials. 😛 I do watch re-runs of old ones like Fauji, Circus etc.

    If that chick cries, then you can’t blame her, can you? I’m sure Ekta Maa made her cry- to increase the TRP ratings.

    Dimple Kapadia was always so beautiful. My mom tells me that she broke lots of hearts when she got married to Rajesh Khanna right after Bobby. And then many years later, she came back in the movie Sagar (Kamal Haasan and Rishi Kapoor) and she still looked really smashing!

    Umm..I don’t remember that one. When was it aired?

    • vivek ssehgal says:

      sagar was released in 1987.In a single day i watched two movies sagar@ 3 hrs then mera naam joker@5.30hrs with two intervals and was severly reprimanded by dad for coming home at abot 11pm.I was sixteen yrs old then and yes i miss my those days of childhood.will love to add about more advt: like those of lux always using the heroin of those days be it hema malini, zeenat aman. right now short on time@1pm at night. will log in again and try to chip in more with otr advt:

  14. lallopallo says:

    Thanks for putting them Ruhi. It was really nostalgic to watch them..especially Mile sur mera’s so unbelievable that as I was watching it, I could anticipate the exact music and everything..Probably it was because I must have watched it thousand times while growing up..

    Ruhi: You’re welcome. 🙂 I find it easier to recall movies and songs that I’d heard as a child, compared to the movies and songs that I’ve watched/heard after growing up. Maybe we were more perceptive as kids. 🙂

  15. @Ruhi: Nah, I’m not blaming that chick for crying, it’s not her fault. I’m not blaming anybody actually, it’s just funny. I’m sure they have to give her glucose everyday after she’s done shooting because she must suffer big time dehydration.

    I’m sure my dad’s heart was one of the broken ones when she married Rajesh Khanna. He totally loved her lol. I could see that when he totally wanted to see that Saif Ali Khan movie in which she featured recently. I don’t remember the name anymore though.

  16. “Vicco Turmeric” is one ad which I used to hate !!!… It was like going on for ever and ever. then when u hope that its over, they start again “vicco turmeric nahi cosmetic” for another two minutes.!!
    “Mile sur mera tumhara” is too good. May be becoz as some suggested we been listening to that thousand times. 🙂
    Great collection ruhi.
    I guess i shud tune back to Doordarshan for once in a while to check if they are still airing all these….

    • vivek sehgal says:

      hay do u know they are again playing vicco turmric advt: in multiplex in delhi these days. same old advt:. then there is another very old advt: about save the girl child by an NGO sun foundation/ vishwajit sawhny foundation, it feature very young shweta tiwari of big boss/kasauti zindagi ki fame.

  17. @Ish

    Sorry I missed this comment of yours.

    //I’m sure they have to give her glucose everyday after she’s done shooting because she must suffer big time dehydration.

    Haha! 🙂 LOL. I think so too.

    Your dad’s heart must have suffered serious injuries and there were lots of girls who committed suicide too, when Rajesh Khanna got married. 😛 Which movie are you talking about? I only saw her in Dil Chahta Hai. But I know that had a recent release too.

    Thanks for your comment and welcome to my blog. 🙂 Even I never liked Vicco Turmeric Ad…but I couldn’t find it on Youtube (for old times’ sake) 😉

    Everybody seems to be very familiar with Mile Sur…funnily, I don’t think I watched it on TV that many times…or maybe I did. I just don’t remember. Let us know if you could find any of these ads on DD.

  18. @Ruhi…
    You havent seen the Mile Sur.. video???? (surprised look).. 🙂 That was hard to miss, Its was usually aired either when they switch from the regional channel to the national one.(they wud put a blue board that said “Delhi relay……….”)
    Or when they had nothing to air.
    Sure. I wud check DD once in a while now. 🙂

    Ruhi: Xylene, I didn’t say that I haven’t seen it. I said, I’m not sure if I saw it that many times on TV. But yes, I do remember each and every scene! I feel so nostalgic even thinking about it. Definitely must have been some other birth of mine and not this one 😉

  19. @ruhi
    Oh okay 🙂
    its indeed nostalgic… Thanx for the post Ruhi. You took me back to my days when “the TV remote was useless” 🙂

    Ruhi: You’re welcome. Btw, isn’t the remote still useless? 😉

  20. anurag.s says:

    sahi list hai boss…
    golden years of DD …

    best part of your blog is inputs by Ish…
    how can anyone forget ad of dabur dant manjan…arre raju tumhare daant to motiyo ki tarah chamak rahe hai…

  21. lekhni says:

    Hey this is lovely! I was thinking of Mile Sur mera tunmhara just a few days back..nice to be able to watch it again 🙂

  22. @Anurag,

    Hey thanks for your enthusiastic comments! =)) Ish is my star commentator. At the start of this year, I had done a post where I was giving out virtual awards and Ish won the Best Commentator Award. He must be so happy now…I’m sure.

    And I remember that Dabur Dant Manjan Ad! It was sooo stupid. LOL.

    You have a nice name 🙂 Thanks for stopping by. Yes, everybody seems to be really nostalgic about Mile Sur Mera Tumhara…it’s a lovely song.

  23. anurag.s says:

    hey ruhi,
    tell me something…how u manage your time gurl…
    MBA..CFA…Running two blogs…i know u are a lawyer..and would soon pursue a PhD in finance…
    greattt…do teach me a few tricks…
    and does blogging abt cfa readings helps in revision…??

  24. OMG, more comment posting lurve! I’m suddenly loving this life you know!

    Thanks Anurag!

    And Ruhi you are toh just great. Ruhi maata ki jai! Okay not maata, wahaan kuch aur laga lena. 😛

  25. @Anurag

    I am horrible at time management, believe me. I’m not working right now; so I’m being able to blog. But as Level II exam in June comes nearer and I start working in a month or two, I doubt that I’ll be able to blog so much.

    I started that CFA blog to keep me motivated and keep a track o my study pattern. Yes, it does help me a lot. I can come back to those posts for a quick revision. Are you taking CFA too?

    P.S- Not really a lawyer; need to study for 2 more years to get my LLB. I’ll do that if I go back to Pune sometime.

    Great! Thank Anurag 🙂 And oye…you dare not call me mataji else I’ll stop talking to all you 18 year olds. 😛

  26. nivi says:

    Hi Ruhi,

    cant thank u enough for making me feel nostalgic that will last a long time..great compilations..

    it wld be great if u can get the following ads too… if its not possible no worries.. u can atleast reminisce about them.

    -Ye bechara kaam ka josh ka maara..ise chaahiye hamdard ka tonic CINKAARA

    I LOVE THESE ads

    enjoy..keep up the cool work

  27. Nivi- Thanks for your enthusiastic comment. 🙂 Even I tried really hard to search for “Jab mein chota bachcha tha…” but couldn’t find it. I will try to find the rest and put them up here. Never saw that Godrej ad. I hated that ECE bulb and Cinkaara ad… 😛

  28. ram_ricky says:

    felt so good to see all this at ur blog ruhi…. really cudnt believe my eyes wen i saw ppl are really nostalgic abt all this….
    this stuff jus makes me go back to those days n ponder over things for a wile til i find my eyes moist….

    Great job ruhi….!!! cheers to you… 🙂

    and yeah ruhi, a few more videos that u can add up to ur search list….
    1. Bhartiya saaksharta mission song ( kahin samay ka ek taara , akshar akshar deep jale……)
    2.the title track of Chandrakaanta…. man!! who doesnt luv tht show!!??….
    remember kroor sing and hi “yukkooo”…??
    wel wel…
    lemmi think more…. will post u more as i get them…

    thanx ruhi

  29. @ ram_ricky:

    I’ll try to search when I get the time. 🙂 If you find a link, then feel free to post it here. I’ll include it in the main post, under your name. I don’t remember Chandrakaanta or Kroor or even Bhartiya Saaksharta song. 😦 Don’t know if I ever saw them.

    Thank you for your comment and I’m glad that you liked this post.

  30. fayaz says:

    Hi can any one tell me where i can find the indian aqua fina commercial , there is a song that is played in in , “kabhi boond boond” i need that song , can any one send me alink where i can find it

  31. ULKA says:

    Hi Ruhi,
    Really great thing you did.
    If you remenber, there was an ad of Captain cook salt in which there was a female ( Susmita Mukharjee) expressing the add.
    I love that add very much. It was a terriffic add.
    Can you help me to have that add?

  32. @Fayaz

    Try searching on Youtube. 🙂

    Thanks for your comment. 🙂 I remember that ad quite well. I’ll try searching for it. Even you can run a search on various video sites like Youtube etc.

  33. Arpit Bhandari says:

    Hi ppl…. i was searching for a very old advertisement which used to come on doordarshan which brought me to this site… please help me remember the advertisement.

    Following are the things which i know:
    1) There is a song by Alisha Chinai – Khwabon se nikal kar tu aaja…. very recent song…
    when she sings – La La La La… the music is EXACTLY lifted from the ad

    2) I remember the ad’s English jingle going like – La La La Litware(?)…. I am not sure about the last word…. i was quite a kid then… just have the haunting music repeating in my mind whenever i listen to Alisha’s song.

    Please listen to the Alisha’s song, if you haven’t, over here….

    I think ppl of age group 30 + can easily remember this old DD adv.

    Thanks in advance!

    P.S. I feel that the adv. itself picked up the music from some english song. Any revelation will be credited with DBC (Death by Chocolate) 😀

  34. @Arpit

    Thanks for dropping by. 🙂 Unfortunately, I have no idea about this song…hopefully, someone will be able to find what you’re looking for.

  35. Shantanu says:

    Hey! that was some awesome collection…truely nostalgic.
    Just check the “Old Doordarshan Serials” Community on Orkut
    & look for “Those were the best days of my Life” Thread.
    I’m Shure U’l love it.
    Thx again for that refreshing Flashback
    @ Arpit
    hey even I remember that female voice singing those lines.
    I Guess it was some cooking utensil’s brand..I remember these lines…”pretty dishes u can cook n serve in La..La…La…Litware”…but just can’t recall it as a whole…

  36. Arpit Bhandari says:

    you deserve the DBC!!!

    the “pretty dishes u can cook…” led me to the original song!

    Never on Sunday by Chordettes

    Thanks once again… if you are in bangalore tell me!… if not, tell me the city… if we are in the same city… you get ur gift!

    Thanks once again and the forum!

    P.S. I got the clue from

    It seems a great site for ppl to play – guess the old DD commercial!

  37. @Shantanu

    I sent you an email 🙂

    Thanks for the link to that discussion community. Very vibrant quizzing going on, but it seems to have stopped recently, else I would have loved to join it.

    Really? Wow…this is So great! Thanks for coming back and letting me know. 🙂 I feel so happy now. Heh. I wish I could see it on TV though. 😦

  38. Shantanu says:

    U ppl are super cool…
    Thx. for the DBC & for the “Never on Sunday” track…i remember it so well now.
    I’m in Pune right now & would love to meet all u ppl.
    Also that Ghushe guy who started the ODS community on Orkut is my Friend.
    Drop in on that community…lots of old serials & adds have been discussed there in the past.

    @ Ruhi,
    Thx for the mail. I’l hunt for the track…also if ur on orkut, do join me in your friend list. Also on the above mentioned thread in the ODS community on orkut, I’v tried all that I could remember.Check it out.

  39. shruti says:

    hey does any1 rem tht nirma ad………’oho deepika ji aayeye aayeeye…….jab wohi dhulai kum damoo mein mile toh koi yeh kyo le woh na le(nirma….maan gaye..kisse ?? aapki paar ki nazar aur nirma super dono ko!!!’
    doesnt d old ads n serials remind u of fims lik jaane bhi do yaroo,chasme badoor, n like????

  40. shruti says:

    since we all r in nostalgia……..lemme share a funny incident with u guys
    Quite a few yrs back(at least more than 12 yrs) I was watching Tehkikat (rem Vijay anand n Saurabh Shukla…..tehkikat yeh hai tehkikat) with my sisters and cousins. All d lights were out since everyone was sleeping. THere was this particular scene where a deadbody with open eyes n green shade of face colour was submerged in a bath tub. Along with the female protagonist, all of us screamed so loudly that the whole house woke up n as punishment we were not only thrown out of the t.v room but also banned from watching tv for atleast a week.

  41. @Shruti

    Haha! 🙂 That was quite funny. I remember fighting with my cousins because I wanted to watch Dekh Bhai Dekh and the other Panka Kapoor serial (some Hindi school comedy, remember?). They used to be aired back to back. I hope I can find these serials online sometime. I would love to watch them again. Do you know of any website where we can watch these old serials?

  42. Shantanu says:

    That incident was really funny….U made me recall a somewhat smiler experience from my childhood days. Me & my big bro used to watch “Kile Ka Rahasya”…yes the same one with a bloody hand on the back…& a girl falling to her death with a shreak. First Horror based serial on DD.

    We ppl were so haunted by this particular serial that whenever we went to the bathroom before sleeping (some rules which all of us followed back then), we used to tell our mother to wait just outside the door, till we hurried up with the activity.
    But we used to laugh about the same incident in the morning…..really “Those were the best days of my Life.”

    I used to love Dekh Bhai Dekh..& perticularly Kareema (Tu bandar hai) the servant with an attitude :)….also the Pankaj Kapoor Serial u mentioned was ” Zabaan Sambhalke” with a list of fine comedians with Pankaj Kapoor as their Class Teacher & Shobha Khote as the Principal with a bunch of students (2 big 2b called students) from different parts of the country talking in their native language…but trying to learn Hindi. A gr8 satire which later on appeared on “Home TV”.
    Hope u can recall it well now!

  43. @ Shantanu:

    You are right! Zabaam Sambhalke was the name of the serial. I even remember the title track 🙂 I even remember some of the students in that classroom! Pankaj Kapoor did such a fine job in that show. I used to wait every week for that one night- to watch both Dekh Bhai Dekh and Zabaan Sambhalke. Dekh Dekh Dekh- there was that boy called Sanju, na? And chachu (Shekhar Suman) and his wife, chachi, played by Bhavna Balsavar. Even Farida Jalal was there. Gosh, I wish I could watch these somewhere. I feel like going back to my childhood days.

    And regarding the haunted thing, I’m afraid, I still behave in the same manner. 🙂 Thank God, that hasn’t changed.

  44. Arpit Bhandari says:

    I remember that dekh bhai dekh was aired on thursdays 9 to 930 followed by zabaan sambhaal ke…
    then fridays used to be one of the best weekdays for me as i used to watch alladin cartoon from 4 to 430… play cricket and return… and follow up by Shrimaan Shrimati at 8 and All the Best at 830!!… and there was then the hindi movie on DD1 at 9 30!!!… Remembering All the Best, i was heartbroken when Shafi Inamdar sadly passed away and was replaced… though the quality of the program never really dipped due to that!… those two serials were clean comedy at their best!…

    i dont remember the name of Kiley ka Rahasya… but i remember the bloody hand!… and the sound track too :SS… right now i am 24… but still alone in the house so let me put on some light :)… i was a bigger scaredo then… i had to be chauffeured to Bathroom even after the zabaan sambhaal kes :).. though the dark passage between the bedroom and the bathroom was the culprit 🙂

    @Shruti… Sam d’Silva and Gopi were really great in Tehkikaat… i remember one episode in which a chair used ot move by itself in a newly occupied house… only for our DoorDarshan detectives to find out that a rogue lady used magnets from the floor below to move the iron-fitted chair :P…

    but friends… we still leaving out the morning slots!!… Mahabharat… the techincal miracle… Chandrakanta… all those aiyyars and stuff due to which we could not see the real lady Chandrakanta for months!!!… and Betaal Pachisi…

    visiting relatives’ place on sunday mornings brought a tinge of sadness of missing these serials!!…

    P.S. being a kid then, i was a great fan of Captain Vyom!

  45. shruti says:

    @ Arpit
    OMG…………that’s the same episode I was talking about

    I remember waking up at 7 in the morning to watch rangoli(guess hema malini used to host it for some time) and doesnt anyone remember Superhit Muqabla and Shanti (the most non sensical dd shows of all)

  46. Shantanu says:

    I guess every child from the 80’s who grew up with limited resources may it be in terms of entertainment or other money related materialistic things have grown up to be responsible human beings with a bit of love for those simple but satisfying days…what a life we had back then.
    I really feel for todays kids, they are simply being exposed to all sorts of things too early in their life, but this process is irreversible and came along with evolution…so it will have to be digested.

    Also all those who wanted to recall all those nostalgic DD Days…join the “OLD DOORDARSHAN SERIALS” community on Orkut. and check the thread “Those were the best days of my life”

    Once again thanks to Ruhi for taking us back to our childhood days…Cheers!

  47. Arpit Bhandari says:

    Very rightly put Shantanu. I showed this community to few of my “Doordarshan friends” and we really felt that our generation is a lot calmer and values-laden than the current one. One of the stark difference is that today almost no serial is about the garibi of the postman, helplessness of the unemployed, naivete of the middle class etc.. Too much of glitz over here now. Perhaps, in those days people had a lot of life outside their homes. On weekends, I still remember, our neighbours, papa’s friends, relatives used to visit us. We used to go on long walks as a family. A small happy family, with ppl having time for each other.
    Now, with the professional career of ppl just zooming around, and “alienation” of one’s self and the family from the society is taking place, TV is like one stop entertainment which really has to boost your hormones to make you feel “affected”, not necessarily “grounded”.
    The entropy always increases!… 🙂

  48. Shantanu says:

    Exactly you have put down all I had to say… thx for that. It can b can see professionalism not only at work but in other places as well…the mad rush for money and success has blindfolded most of us…its rare to find a simple happy family which was content wid all that they had.
    I remember how all relatives would frequently get together and spend time together without any specific motive but just as it felt good our own people around. I hope the gen next has a better life than what they are going through…though ironically we are also going through the same phase.
    It is reflected through the TV too…its no more a medium of information (except for DD’s Gyan & DD Bharti, & ofcource NGC, History, Discovery & AP are a few exception)but just brainwashing ppl with Breaking News which, is doubtful to be a News in the first place. No need to comment on the the daily soaps…Awful as they are…
    I can simply recall kavi Pradeeps lines “Kitna badal gaya Insaan”

  49. Sindhuja says:

    Does anyone remember an ad they used to show that ended with children lighting candles, and they were standing in three rows, the top row dressed in orange, the middle one white, the bottom one green (so they made the flag), and they were singing something, but I can’t remember what. The ad itself had all these famous musicians playing the same tune, so it built up to the children singing. I know that Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Ravi Shankar were in it, and there were a bunch of other people, there was one guy playing water glasses, another (who was dead by the time I saw the ad, maybe fifteen years ago) playing the veena. It was such a lovely tune, and thinking about it now makes me remember how proud and patriotic I felt when I saw it back then.

  50. @Shantanu, Arpit, Shruti and everyone else who’s commenting enthusiastically here:

    Should I serve you coffee? Tea? Coke? Is the couch comfortable enough 😀 (Just joking!).

  51. Shantanu says:

    Hey! i guess u mixed up the two famous adds…1) “Mile Sur mera tumhara” ,one which Ruhi has already posted which ends with children standing
    in 3 rows with the 3 tricolors and the blue Ashok chakra appearing later on…
    2) The second one is “Baje Sargam har taraf se gunje bankar deshraag”…which features different legends from the field of music from India and in the end children lighting candles and spreading the light…
    U can watch it here :

    Thanks…U’v already made us comfortable by starting this topic.. but anyways a coffee will do 😉
    Have Fun.

  52. Hey!

    I recollect an advertisement where Indian athletics and players were running with a torch in hand, they passed the torch from one to another. I would appreciate if someone can anyone help me finding that add.

  53. Lalit- You’re talking about Mile Sur Mera Tumhara and that torch passing scene is towards the end of that song. I’ve uploaded it here. 🙂 Take a look.

  54. Sindhuja says:

    Shantanu! That was it, that was the ad! Thank you so much for finding it and sharing it with me. I don’t think it was the whole ad, but what was there was enough to take me back to a much happier place.

  55. Shantanu says:

    Hey! The ad ur mentioning is entitled ” Torch of Freedom”, the song featured many famous sports personalities of the time and each one meeting up and handling the torch to the next one who would continue…, I can recall Sunil Gavaskar running in the rain with the torch with a cute smile on his face :)…also there was P.T. Usha who was running through a green field with deers running in the backdrop along with her…
    I guess the music was by Louis Banks…hope 2 grab hold of this rare piece 1 day

    @ Sindhuja,
    Don’t mention it!…cheers 🙂

    @ Ruhi,
    Hey! Its too damn hot here in Pune…cancel the coffee, do u have a Gold Spot! 😉
    Have Fun:)

  56. @ Shantanu:

    I think Gold Spot’s not manufactured anymore, no? 🙂 Limca? Oh this reminds me of that game we used to play as kids- Gold Spot! Don’t know if you people have played it.

  57. Shantanu says:

    Gold spot (The Zing Thing) is gone..long back & many new brands of pesticides have taken its place 😀 … insted I’l stick to Rasna 🙂
    Also there was a drink called ” RIM-ZIM ” u remember it? Also in the summers (MAY holidays) we used to get these flavoured sticks of ice called “PEPSI” in thin cylindrical shapes …then later on came the “Milk Pepsi” it was a real treat for 50 paisa & 1 Rupee.

  58. Vikas Pratap Singh says:

    hey! could u please arrange for captain vyom title track; I would be very grateful to you. thank you

  59. Meghna says:

    I just hit upon ur blog coz i did a search for the Litware ad song… And I HAD to go through the entire conversation..made me remember things I thought I’d forgotten. This was nice. Thank you so much all of you.

  60. Anupam says:

    @ Ruhi. You have nice collection lady. Here I came accross the lalitaji ad which I was looking for sometime. Thanx.
    Made me remember my childhood when the Sundays used to begin with He-man, Bharat Ek Khoj, Ramayan, then there was some other serial which I don’t remember. After that Charlie chaplin, in the evening we used to have superman or was it spiderman! I thinkit was spiderman but not sure. And after that there was a serial named SIGMA. It was somewhat on the lines of Startrek. Remember. ………………. Alas

    Those were the days of Jasoos Karamchand with his assistant Kitty and Kathasagar and Fauji and many more. I really miss my childhood.

  61. arshiya says:

    hey hi all…..
    funtastic collections….
    i jus remembered some old video which was telecasted in doordharshan….
    i exactly dont remember the name of the song/video but its jus that it shows some hindi stars along with some kids along with them (some actors like jackie shoriff, aamir khan and others)can anyone jus help me to find that song/video.

  62. Shantanu says:

    I can certainly help you to find the song, but the video …well i’v been searching it too…

    I guess it was made in the early 90’s featuring some well known actors @ those times with kids…giving a message of National Integration.

    The words are like..Sun Sun Sun mare nanhe Sun , Sun Sun Sun mare munne sun…pyar ki ekta rahe desh me ekta rahe…sara bharat yeh kahe pyaar ki ekta rahe

    here’s the link:-

  63. sandhya.j says:

    hi it was nice to see those songs and ads once u remember this song “saur-mandal me tim tim barse taare anek hai” i really love this song-a type of unity and integrity type..i searched a lot ..i dint case u get the link please let me konw

  64. Anant says:

    @ all the participants
    this blog is wonderful….i read it for d first time today when i hit upon it in search of old ads for my article in a magazine..! n really it has been a trip down d memory lane…nice work ruhi n co.
    btw can anyone post d link for the zandu balm ad…
    “zandu balm zandu balm peedahari balm”
    @shantanu n arpit
    u hav aptly portrayed d scenario in d present times.n it gladdens my heaert to see people (youth) still concerned about such issues which hav become trivial to others…
    keep going guys……!!!!!
    cheers Anant

  65. shlok says:

    hey good work do u have video of a guy trying to cut down an apple tree and then an apple falls on his head which turns his mind also any ide abt from where to download kile ka rahasya

  66. i want the details of sanjha chulah says:

    hi friends
    this is asim from hyderabad i want to know the details of hindi serial sanjha chulah when i was kid i was watching that serial and i forget the story now plz reply me the details of that serial at .
    with regards

  67. Your post rings a lot of nostalgic bells! Do you remember an old Indian ad that used the song “Blue Bayou”? If so do you remember what the product was? (Have been trying to remember it – something to do with work – and found your post through a related Google search!)

  68. Adi says:

    I saw the video of those athletes passing the torch and it gave me goosebumps…Kudos to you and this invaluable collection of my most favourite childhood memories!!Cheers!

  69. rajieve says:

    nice work……gone back to good old days of 80s when TV was a luxury and one TV set would have attracted the whole maholla for viewing.

    Pl post old ZANDU balm if possible.

    God bless you………

  70. Tarun Mehta says:

    kahin samay tha ek tara akshar akshar deep jale ( rashtriya saksharta mission ) please friends if any one have mp3 or video link of dis song.. den plz mail me on my mail id… heartly thanks in advance…

  71. Rohit Chadha says:

    Hmmm..Feeling nostalgic after viewing this website. Thank u so much Mr. Up-loader. I’ve a request. Can ne 1 plz upload few links of ‘Stone Boy’- a TV serial used to come on Sunday Mornings about 2 siblings who visit Mauritius & found this guy.

    • We says:

      hi Ruhi,

      Today I was doing some search and found your link…. if you get please EsselWorld ka add ..that was cool …

      Essel world me rahunga me ghar nahi jaunga me …. kitna bada he dekho mera zula .. chila chila ke dum mera fulla :-))))

      One more
      Rahul pani chala jayega ….. :-))

      wow man awesome days awesome time.

  72. Sagar says:

    Guys can u please upload the Ad of CRANE BETEL NUT POWDER
    I just love the Ad yaar
    I request someone or the other help me out

    Thanking you,

  73. rohit says:

    most this extraordinary serials are now available on flipcart. I think they have include dvd of serials like malgudu days,j aane bhi do yaaro, hum panch, aliflaila, bharat ek khoj n many mores….i hv bought many of them ….just brought memories of my chilhood after watching these serials.

  74. Pratik Patil says:

    poorab se sury uga…
    alif laila title song
    bajaj bulb ad
    Doordarshan music
    lijjat papad
    natraj pencil
    vicks ki goli lo
    cadbury perk preety zinta
    thanda matlab coca cola
    pepsi. .nothing official abt it…’99 World cup
    parle G ad
    fevistic ad for fishing.
    and how can u forget JALEBI? Dhara ad

    i could not find
    1. kahin samay ka ek tara..akshar akshar deep chale ad and
    2. 1st ever ad from Navneet Books ad

  75. vicky says:

    padhna likhna sikho o mehnat karne waalo padhna likhna sikho o mehnat karne waalo
    ka kha ga ga ko pehchano alif ko padhna sikho
    ka kaa ki kii ko hatyar bankar ladhna sikho
    padhna likhna sikho o mehnat karne waalo padhna likhna sikho o mehnat karne waalo.

  76. vicky says:

    chalo humare sang tume hum rang naye dikhayenge
    ek anokhe ajeeb desh ki sair karrayenge
    khushiyon ki baraat yiye sapno ka sansaar liye
    lo baigan raja aate hai baiigan raja aate hai

  77. XiTiZ. says:

    Does anyone remember the save trees advertisment, where a guy is to cut trees but the other guy sticks to the tree to save it….the language used was garbled one…..

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UK: Boris Johnson compares EU’s aims to Hitler’s

The former London mayor and conservative MP Boris Johnson makes fresh criticism to EU.  Speaking to Sunday Telegraph, he said European history had seen repeated attempts to rediscover the “golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans”.

“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods,” he said.

“But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.

“There is no single authority that anybody respects or understands. That is causing this massive democratic void.”

Rejecting Johnson’s analysis, Shadow Foreign Secretary Hillary Benn said: “Leave campaigners have lost the economic argument and now they are losing their moral compass.

“To try and compare Hitler and the Nazis – the millions of people who died in the Second World War, the Holocaust – with the free democracies of Europe coming together to trade and co-operate, and in the process to help to bring peace to the continent of Europe after centuries of war, is frankly deeply offensive.”

Latest opinion polls suggest 50-50 for both sides.

Conclusion: The fierce fight goes on.

France: Clashes erupt at May Day march

The battle over Labour reforms in France has goes on today. The clashes among protesters and police has broken out in May Day.

The proposed law, to be debated in parliament on Tuesday, would remove some of the protection workers enjoy against being laid off, in an attempt to encourage businesses to hire more people.

The socialist government says its aim is to combat chronic unemployment, but opponents say it will let employers bypass workers’ rights on pay, rest time and overtime rates.

Conclusion: Labour reform is debated and clashed in France.

Serbia and Austria goes to the polls

  • In Austria, the far right politician Norbert Hofer has about 36% of the votes while independent contender Alexander Van der Bellen, who is polling 20%. No one of two main parties like Social-Democrats and conservative People’s party has reached it
  • In Serbia, exit polls says PP is likely to win 56%. This is a great victory by PM Alexander Vucic and his EU policy.

US 2016: Sanders wins Washington, Alaska and Hawaii

The democratic presidential primaries is very interesting. The Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has win the caucuces in Washington, Hawai and Alaska. He thanked his supporters and said his “campaign has the momentum”, but he still faces a tough task to overhaul the frontrunner and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Conclusion: Democrats is very stunned like Sanders’s supporters.

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US: House of representatives approves new sanctions to Russia

The ties between Russia and US has new low today.  US’ House of Representatives has approved a new bill which tightens sanctions againts Iran, North Korea and Russia by 419 to 3.

It needs to be passed through the Senate before it can be sent on to the president to be signed.

The White House says it is reviewing the bill, and it is unclear whether the president will veto it.

“While the president supports tough sanctions on North Korea, Iran and Russia, the White House is reviewing the House legislation and awaits a final legislative package for the president’s desk,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

Prior to the vote, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said such measures would plant a “dangerous mine” under the foundation of ties.

Mr Ryabkov said: “All this is very worrying. We can see no signs that that Russophobe hysteria that has engulfed the entire US Congress is dying down.”

After it passed, Russian MP Leonid Slutsky said the sanctions “undermine the prospects for the restoration of Russian-American relations and further complicate them for the foreseeable future”.

“Opportunities for diplomatic manoeuvring” are now “extremely” small, he told Russia’s Interfax news agency.

Conclusion: Further handshakes between Trump and Putin to save US-Russia ties as soon as possible,

Environment: Trump hints at climate deal shift in Paris talks

US president Donald Trump was invited by his French conuterpart Emmanuel Macron to Two-day visit to celebrates 14 July. So, both leaders has discussed environment issues like Paris climate accord in a press conference today.

Macron said he “respected” Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord but that France would remain committed.

“On climate we know what our differences are,” Macron said in Paris on Thursday, adding that it was important to move forward.

Speaking alongside Macron, Trump then hinted that the US could shift its position but failed to elaborate.

“Something could happen with respect to the Paris accord,” he said.

Trump added: “We’ll see what happens.”

Conclusion: Trump and his stubborness.

US-China: Jimping meets Trump on visit to Mar-a-Largo resort

After his visit to Finland. Chinese president Xi Jimping arrives to US for two-day meeting with his counterpart Donald Trump. The Trump’s resort in Mar-a-Lago hosted it.

Trump said the two men had “developed a friendship” as they sat for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago retreat.

The American leader is expected to press his counterpart for action on North Korea, and Mr Xi to seek assurances on Taiwan.

Mr Trump has said the summit “will be a very difficult one”.

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Kale-Potato Hot Soup

Winter is almost here. With flu, cold and running nose one feels to have something hot that can also be prepared within few minutes. Kale-potato Tomato soup is an option and nutritious too. Find the recipe below.

Preparation time: 20 minutes

  1. Oil (your choice) – 3 Tbs
  2. Shallots – 4 (sliced)
  3. Celery- one stalk (chopped)
  4. Kale leaves – 4 cups (chopped)
  5. Potato – 3 medium size (peel and cut into pieces)
  6. Tomato -1 (slice into 4 pieces)
  7. Pepper – 1 tsp
  8. Cumin – 1 tsp
  9. Ginger – 1/2 inch

  1. Heat oil on low flame and add cumin, pepper, ginger, shallots, celery and salt. Cook for 5 minutes.
  2. Add potatoes, tomatoes and cook for 10 minutes. Stir the contents occasionally.
  3. Add kale leaves to the vessel. Simmer for about 5 minutes.
  4. Remove the vessel and allow it to cool.
  5. Using a blender, puree the soup until it is smooth.
  6. Transfer the soup to a vessel and add lemon juice.
  7. Add cream or butter and bread crumbs and serve. If needed heat the soup before serving.

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  • Anti-inflammatory medicine

How to Treat a Muscle Pull. A muscle pull occurs when a muscle is stretched beyond its capability and some muscle fibers tear. Muscle pulls range from mild to severe, depending on the amount of muscle torn. Properly treating a muscle pull will not only help you heal, but will also help prevent future injury.

Treat a Minor Muscle Pull

Rest and avoid strain on the pulled muscle. You will probably experience a limited range of motion.

Ice the torn muscle for no more than 15 minutes every hour. Ice will help decrease swelling and pain.

Take anti-inflammatory medication to alleviate swelling and pain.

Perform stretches on the pulled muscle if you are able. Keep the stretches light and gentle. Remember to only stretch the muscle if there is no pain involved.

Treat a Severe Muscle Pull

Stop all exercise immediately. Put as little strain as possible on the injured muscle. You don't want to risk tearing your muscle further.

Apply ice to the injured muscle to help reduce swelling and pain. Use ice frequently during the first few days after injury.

Wrap the injured area with a bandage to help control the swelling and prevent any unwanted movement.

Avoid applying heat to the injured muscle. Heat will increase blood flow and swelling to the injured area.

See a licensed medical professional to treat your muscle pull. Take any medication prescribed by your doctor.

Rest as much as possible. Follow a good diet, providing your muscles with the necessary nutrients and resources to repair themselves, such as carbohydrates, protein and fiber.

Introduce stretching and range-of-motion movements after several days of rest. Do not stretch or move beyond your muscle's limits. Over time, you should see increased flexibility and range of motion.

  • Resting gives your muscle time to repair itself. Do not exert your muscle to the point where you feel pain. However, take care to avoid mistaking discomfort and stiffness for pain.

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Preliminary Notes NCORE (day 1/PM)

In-between sessions, I usually take a 10-15 walk out on the harbor, where’ it’s always hazy and very humid.  Can’t see the Washington Monument behind the wall of haze.

Another note: I’m totally surprised that at such an expensive conference about Race & Ethnicity, several systemic realities give me pause:  in the conference center, internet access has to be purchased (I don’t); coffee is put out twice a day, then quickly removed; no water anywhere, except near bathrooms; the food in this disneyesque place is very, very expensive (I’ve heard from people counting pennies) and, other than last night, nothing in terms of food is provided (most people have out of pocket expenses and we’re not all exactly rich; besides, this really hurts all organizations that are vanguard, on the margins, that might contribute to these conversations — who is being left out? I wonder).  This note/thought makes me think critically about the role of NCORE in the work towards a more equal world along race and ethnic lines.

Anway, on the way to 90, let’s get going…

2:30-4:0 (Potomac Ballroom C/Convention Center, Level 2)
A Conversation with Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Spelman Faculty for 39 years)

Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities, I am Your Sister: Selected and Unpublished Works of Audre Lorde

Book: Who Should Be First (released in August)

•    Not possible to do anything with Audre Lorde without having her words in the the room
•    “Reflections”, by Audre Lorde (papers held at Spelman College); Alice Walker wrote a piece called, “Audre’s Voice.”  bell hooks, “Lorde of the Imagination of Justice.”
•    A “reading” (Sheftall read from Lorde) notes:
*Affect change for a livable future.  Black, feminine, socialist poet, lesbian, mother – defined as inferior or just wrong
*Opression has no hierarchy.  Heterosexism: superiority of loving of one form over another.  Racism – one race over other and believes in its right to dominate
*No aspect of the self can profit from oppression, particularly when seeking the right to peaceful existence
*Whether there is oppression, black people can be victims
*Any attack on the black community is an attack on gay and lesbian, because “I am” both
*Anti – black is anti gay : cannot fight only one form of oppression; when they appear to destroy me, they appear to destroy “you”
•    Lorde looms large b’cause she understood that there are no hierarchies of oppression
•    Guy-Sheftall: wants to start with a convesation. Lorde was the first “out” black feminist.  First Lorde visit to Spelman was very controversial, and the Woman’s Center was asked whether it was prepared to be always be associated with lesbianism.  Before 1996, had never had an African American female president.  Spelman was founding in 1881.  President Cole was progressive – global and anti imperialist, anti oppression, and a self-identified feminist.  Cole established a reading at her home and invited Audre Lorde to the campus – a controversial gathering.  First person to come to the campus to speak about all her identities.  A student began to cry during Lorde’s talk.  Audre asked her to come and sit with her and hugged her.  Audre’s visits to Spelman helped transform the school and give power to the Woman’s Center.  Radical, black feminist work has not always been embraced, even at a woman’s college, Spelman.  Still operationalizing the work of Audre Lorde.  Work of Lorde is groundbreaking and still very important and relevant.

The Conversation

•    Over the past 30 years, women’s studies have been transformed.  Theorizing has not made its way to the public sphere. Hillary Clinton is categorized as a woman, not a white, middle class woman. Obama was constructed as an African American, primarily.  The 2008 presidential debates was one of the most contentious moments among feminists; hostility took place in women studies program; forced many of to raise the question, “what happened?”  30 years of theorizing seemed not to make its way to the media, to even feminists in the classroom.  Kimberly Crenshaw and Guy-Sheftall and Gloria Steinem convened a meeting in NYC. The Nation published overview of the meeting. Douglas and feminist debate that took place over the 15th Amendment needed to be revisited.  Media does not get intersection theories.  We seem to slip into old paradigms to talk about race.
•    Connection btwn Audre’s essay and what happened to presidential candidate?  Very few groups that are fighting for liberation are progressive on all fronts.  Groups can be radical about one issue, i.e. race movement was strong on issues of racism, but totally oblivious to issues of feminism.  Nothing peculiar about feminist. They have to be pulled, too, into an intersection or areas about race.  Disappointing when people are committed to only one issue, rather than all the issues pertaining to liberation. Progressive black folks were willing to support a totally unprogressive Clarence Thomas.  Lorde attacked all issues of oppression.
•    2008 debate and the national media: press keen on highlighting the split btwn students who supported Clinton, in Spelman, and those that supported Obama.  Where are these students now?  Students have yet to internalize the intersectional approach.  Obama was almost a taboo subject to speak about; could not speak about what might happen or emerge should Obama be president. This could not be talked about.  Racism, at the time, was on the internet, circulating in disgusting ways and never made it to the mainstream.  People are now surprised about racism, particularly in the Tea Party.
•    Michele Obama experienced racism and sexism in obvious ways.  She experiences tremendous commentary about her body, particularly her butt.  Over referencing of the first lady’s body, who can’t escape the gaze.  References to skin color, hair clips, etc.
•    How did “Precious” end up in the movie theaters?  Why Lee Daniels chose to do “Precious”?  Movie would have been a sleeper if it wasn’t for Oprah.  Has to be factored into analysis.  We all share incest, survival narratives.  The “obsession”, almost, that majority white audiences have with the film, “Precious.”  The Bush women had parties in their homes to show the film: if you want to understand black life, look at this film.  Coverage of Precious is quite obsessive in mainstream media.  It’s an old pathological black family narrative. Every imaginable pathology is in that film.  In the novel, Precious does not weigh 350 pounds.  Lee Daniels chose the character: we have to raise questions of Daniels, Tyler Perry, Oprah and the white woman who raised money for it?
•    What does it mean to have the Obamas in the White House and Precious?  What does it mean that a a gay African American male is associated with Monster’s Ball and Precious?  We have to also add the black and white consumer public.  Commercial success came when Oprah endorsed the film.  These are not pathological narrative being created outside the community; the issue is the persistence of these narratives that have no counter narrative.  (A mother daughter incest is very unusual.  The monstrous black mother is another persisten theme, the quintessential horrible mother in the public’s mind. In the novel there is no root to this behavior. Safire, the author, doesn’t help us see who she is.)
•    Back to Lorde’s visit to Spelman: the school is a very gentile place.  There has been some critique among progressive African Americans around ways in which the Obama family gets constructed in the media as the perfect heterosexual couple – perfect wife and two children reinforces the dominant heteropatriarchal family, which eliminates us from having the freedom to see other black families, constructed in different ways.  Obama represents any antithesis that anyone may have about men.  Relieves women from the notion that there are “no men out there.”  What is the impact within the black community of this overwhelming notion that Obama is this quintessential man?  Media coverage makes it impossible to think of families in any other way – privileges heteronormaty.  A more nuances, complex analysis creates problems – but it’s almost impossible for us to think about it right now.
•    When did we as a race (black Americans) move away from our own measurements?  People have made a lot of Obama’s skin color and his biracial background – but if he was not married with two perfect children, he would never have been in the White House.  Obama fits the normative that Lorde is always railing against.  Michele had to play the role of the traditional wife – unfortunate that you have to be a particular kind of wife: she is no longer the career woman; talks about the importance of her role as mother.  The discourse had to be recrafted: supportive wife that follows very traditional gender roles.  Even the issues she’s taken up – gardening, childhood obesity, not violence against women, for instance.  Feminists believe that this is crafted. Early on she was henpecking Obama; she was toned down, even in body language.  Her aggressive, black woman’s speech had to be toned down.  Lorde would say that these are the only options as first lady.  Michele was willing; she had to become something else, givent he negative PR she was having.   Negative, particularly among average white women.  She had to be recrafted to be more palatible. Gender – race issues around this issue that are very problematic.  Cultural narrative as black women as ball busting, controling – not a construction that’s around from white women.
•    Lorde would be saying that there is a “norm” out there that have to be adhered to – and we have to think about this.  She would be paying attention to what Obama is saying about race, gender and sexuality.  She would be looking at all the progressive issues Obama’s has taken up; she’d be placed on some, not pleased on others, such as Obama’s position on Afghanistan.  Bothered about the long term stay in Afghanistan and militarism.
•    Back to Michele and her agency in dealing with her image: are moments of agency resistance?  There’s no question about Michele’s agency; however, anyone in the White House cannot operate their radical politics because of constraints.  Obama is the Commander in Chief and Michele will stay away from highly controversial issues that can get Obama in trouble; she’ll exercise her agency in areas that won’t create controversy.  There are positions that they cannot publicly annouce.
•    CLOSING: Audre Lorde’s Oberlin Speech (1989), a Reading

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I’m going to try to keep this brief and succinct as possible, as I’d like to generate a discussion, but we’ll see.

I write a lot of different things, but I lean toward writing strange fiction, which inevitably leads down the path of horror. I would have to go back and read everything I’ve ever written to state this with 100% confidence, but I’d like to think that I have endeavoured to be conscious of the sadist/victim dynamic (whenever it has come up — and to be honest, I generally avoid it altogether for reasons that will become clearer as we discuss…) and how it can be sexually exploitative.

To define — I think we are all on the same page, but perhaps not. I refer to the motif or trope of the damsel in distress, being leered over by a psycho with a hard-on. It’s rape fantasy without the rape. (Or, sometimes with all the rape included…)

I’m not talking about the current trend of so-called sexy BDSM writing, and so, if you don’t mind, let’s not discuss that here. I don’t understand it. I have strong opinions about it, and we may or may not agree about it, but suffice to say, that type of story is not what I have in mind.

I am here to ask the question: is all violence between a man and a woman sexual violence, or can sadism be its own reward, so to speak? At what point does a writer cross the line between terror and exploitation?

For instance: in Singularity, I wrote a story about the sexual exploitation that occurred in mental hospitals in the early 1900’s. I did not glorify it; I showed it as horribly as possible without turning it into torture porn, and the characters got their revenge.

But even revenge can be exploitative. Who among us hasn’t fantasized about taking horrible revenge on someone. And how often is that revenge disproportionate to the original offence? In Kill Bill (arguably one of my favourite movies, but still…) Bill and his crew kill The Bride’s wedding party and leave her for dead. She responds by killing dozens, and maiming dozens more. It’s an amazing revenge flick. I am just not sure if it is not a bit much. I remember watching the first 15 minutes of Robocop when I was a kid, and when Peter Weller gets killed (or at least blown to pieces), my dad shut the movie off. Let’s not get into a discussion about guns, except to say that I abhor guns and the violence they bring. I think back at my stories, and I can’t think of a single instance when a character reaches for a gun. It just doesn’t even occur to me. I’m far too Canadian. But my dad shut off the movie and said this: “If that’s what was done to him, how much worse will his vengeance be?”

Something I’ve carried with me. When I take revenge on my characters, is it in a gleeful, pornographic way? I don’t know how far is too far, and where the line is. We stand in judgement over our characters, and decide what they deserve. I am currently writing a scene where Jessica, my evil doppelganger, has been captured by sadists, who have her bound to a chair, and blinded in the dark. I am very cognizant of the potential for this to become a sexually sadistic situation. But to be fair, a man in this situation would be equally afraid of rape. However, I have decided to not even go there. Instead, I focus on the fear. The claustrophobic nature of being unable to move, unable to see, and hearing all sorts of frightening sounds around you. In fact, I have gone one step further and taken the possibility of rape right off the table. This isn’t about sex or degradation, it is pure sadistic madness.

So again, I ask the question, is all violence against women sexual violence?

I write with an equal mix of male and female characters (to be honest, most of my protagonists are female, or if not, there are major female characters who contribute to the plot with more than their bodies or as victims) and so, when I am putting my protagonist in danger, I’ll be honest, I don’t often think about their gender, nor do I set them up to be molested in a sexual way. But perhaps that is my blind spot. Perhaps that is my elephant, and I try to be careful and remember my audience.

That is not to say I will use trigger warnings. Don’t get me started on trigger warnings. Don’t get me wrong, I understand why they exist, but I think that they are not dissimilar to the Parental Advisory stickers that began showing up on records in the late ’80s, in that they will sell more books than they prevent. Also, if you as an author have written something so terrible that you feel the need to warn people about it — well, shit. Maybe you shouldn’t have written it.

I would like to think that I have integrity as an author, in that I stand behind my stories unapologetically, because I know that my intention is not to cause undue distress. I write horror. I want to scare you. If you don’t want to be scared, then don’t read horror. I’m not going to apologize for freaking you out.

That being said, I don’t believe in exploitation. Not of children, not of women, not in any racial way. But do think that you can document a horrible act, declare it horrible, and use it as part of the story. Horrible things happen, but when a writer glorifies it, or attempts to fill the reader with a sense of glee due to the violence, then I think a line has been crossed.

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  1. I don’t think all violence between a man and woman has to be sexual. Sometimes violence is done for the sake of violence…. This makes me think of the start of the movie Backdraft, where the arsonist is being interviewed, he didn’t care who the flames hurt, he just wanted to watch the world burn. Some just like to see blood flow…

    • Curiously, though: what is more important — the intent of the writer, or the perception of the reader? Me, I feel like I don’t bear the responsibility of the readers’ baggage. How can I? I guess at the end of the day I am not deliberately out to hurt anybody. And more so I try not to do so accidentally.

      • I think you are on the right path. I’ve never seen anything in your writing that I felt was harming the reader… making them feel, yes, of course, but not trying to damage them.

      • Oh, and to your question: the perception of the reader is more important, because most of the time as authors aren’t we writing for them more than for ourselves?

      • Interesting… but you have the least control over others’ perceptions. I know more than many how things can be misconstrued, and how the disconnect between “What I said” and “What you heard” can be.

  2. In this day and age, one can hardly switch on the TV or open a book without sexual violence against women or children not being part of the plot. I think because these things tent to happen so frequently and it being openly discussed these days it is just normal it appears in our fiction too.
    And I’ll be honest, reading your scene in Singularity in the mental health hospital, was a bit hard to chew.
    But, I tend to prefer my monsters in the paranormal variety. At one point I’d only read Urban fantasy, Gothic type stuff, that while these things have a definite horror element, it’s all very unrealistic. One could say that reading your books have broadened my horizons.

    Back to point, my preferred genre does not usually contain sexual exploitation in the sadistic sense. I can’t stomach that stuff. At one point I wanted to scream at authors to stop writing about rape. As said perhaps it says more about our society … where rape becomes exploitation – it’s a thin line.

    • It was really grim, that scene, and difficult to write as well. It’s really the only time I’ve written on that subject, so viscerally. But I’m 100% with you about rape… there should be no such thing as “Rape Fiction” as a horror genre.

  3. For me, there is nothing less sexual than violence. They are opposite ends of the spectrum of human interaction. I don’t understand rape or sexual violence. I know that it happens, but it’s not something that I can imagine. I’ve never tried to write a rape scene for that reason.

    It’s not an issue of morality for me, but simple mechanics. To have sex, you have to be vulnerable, and being vulnerable to someone that you’re fighting with doesn’t make any sense to me.

    There is nothing sexy about combat. It’s scary and painful and something that I want to get over with as soon as possible. I don’t like hurting people, but if it’s the only way to keep someone from hurting me I want to do it as quickly and efficiently as possible, with a minimum of risk.

    • “For me, there is nothing less sexual than violence. ” Brilliant, sir. What a brilliant, quotable phrase. By extension, your second paragraph could be extrapolated upon by saying that sex requires two people (at least) involved in and invested in the act. Rape does not fit this definition, and cannot be categorized as sex.

  4. I would not categorize your words as harmful in any way. Raw? Provoking? Yes and yes. But I don’t see exploitation at all. I’ve not yet read all of your work – maybe at half by this point. But I can tell you that Singularity was one of the most difficult – and perhaps best – things I’ve ever read. What is literature’s purpose if not to make us think, feel, experience something outside our own personal norm? Terrible acts can be part of art without being exploitative. For crying out loud, they are part of history – part of our present – and we can’t just purge and whitewash the world. That’s bullshit. Sorry. For example, when we do things like remove the word “ni—-” from Huck Finn (or whatever other title you want to sub in here), we take away the entire effect and purpose of the book, which is to make us examine our flawed human selves and see where we screwed up, to see how we can grow and change and maybe do better in the future.

    • Ani Difranco once sang: “We used to make records, as in the record of an event or people playing music in the same room…”
      I know that a writer has all the control over the worlds that they create. Some choose a fantasy world, others choose to try to reflect society; or augment society or satirize. I tend toward either gritty realism or, hyperbolic realism, in that sometimes you have to hit someone over the head if you really want them to listen. Your last lines are fantastic — only those trying to rewrite history to cover their shame burn books because they have gone out of fashion philosophically. I am not of the opinion that the human race is becoming more enlightened or evolved. What we consider polite, civilized, open-minded, and human today, we consider barbaric tomorrow. So, I tend to take all the “We are right and have the monopoly on the truth” crowd with a big box of salt. Holy shit, I’m turning into an Objectivist. Someone hit me over the head with a giant copy of Atlas Shrugged.

  5. I think violence of this sort is exploitative if it is there for nothing more to it than shock value and stimulation. It’s a tactic of lazy writers and filmmakers who, instead of invoking deeper emotions, simply fall back on triggering the audience’s primitive reactions. If the sexual violence is part of the story on a more profound level, raises or answers some moral questions, or is part of the dilemma or development of the characters, I think it ceases to be exploitive.

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This post is hard for me to write because I am going to have to be incredibly transparent. Transparency freaks me out. Being vulnerable is uncomfortable and scary. Something about looking weak really gets to me and I struggle with remembering how vulnerability can allow God to work inside of me and uplift others around me who may be struggling, as well.

If you’re anything like me, you like to be yourself. I choose to embrace my quirky, different and unique qualities. I decided when I came to college that I wanted people to love me for me instead of someone I wasn’t. Although I found plenty of friends, guys and girls, who loved me for me, I still happen to be incredibly insecure about it. Why?

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The UK National Committee of the Blue Shield (UKBS), the British wing of a global organisation frequently referred to as the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross, is leading a nationwide campaign to get the UK Government to finally ratify the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two protocols of 1954 and 1999. Professor Peter Stone OBE, Chair of the UKBS, said:

The 1954 Hague Convention is the primary piece of International Humanitarian Law concerning the protection of heritage during armed conflict. While many in the UK have reacted with justifiable horror and indignation at the recent appalling destruction of ancient sites, libraries, archives, and museums in the Middle East and Africa, few seem to realise that the UK remains the only Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council, and arguably the most significant military power (and the only one with extensive military involvements abroad), not to have ratified the 1954 Hague Convention.

After the 2003 US/UK led invasion, the then Minister for Heritage, Andrew McIntosh, announced in 2004 the Government’s intention to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention as soon as Parliamentary business allowed. This claim has been repeated by every relevant Minister since. In November 2011, Jeremy Hunt, then Secretary of State at DCMS, made a joint UK Government and British Red Cross Society pledge “to make every effort to facilitate the UK’s ratification… and to promote understanding of the principles and rules of the Convention within the UK”. Ratification has cross-Party support and the support of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; the Department for Overseas Development; and the Ministry of Defence. Professor Eleanor Robson, Chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, added:

ISIS’ current rampage across northern Iraq and Syria is drawing urgent international attention to the plight of cultural heritage in times of war. By ratifying the 1954 Hague Convention, the UK Government would send a clear signal of its commitment to protecting civilian communities and their histories if it should ever intervene in this conflict or others, and provide the armed forces a clear mandate to do so.

For its campaign to be successful, the UKBS needs everybody who values cultural heritage in all its forms to write to their local MP urging them to pursue this matter. This can be done either by email or post. For those who would like guidance or some information to help them write their letter, a template (which can be adapted as necessary) and a fact sheet on the UKBS and the 1954 Hague Convention can be downloaded here and here. If anyone does not know the name of their MP or how to contact them, that can found here.

If you are still unsure of the need for the UK to ratify the 1954 Hague Convection, the UKBS ask that you please watch this three-minute film Protecting cultural property during war.

The UKBS is an entirely voluntary run organisation comprising academics and heritage professionals from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. You can stay up-to-date with its work and the progress of its campaign by following it on Twitter and Facebook. If you require any further information or have any outstanding queries, please do not hesitate to contact Philip Deans, Campaign Assistant for the UKBS, at Finally, to help the UKBS keep track of the campaign, it is also asked that when anyone does write to their MP, would they please let the UKBS know using the email address supplied above.


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We’ve written many times in the past about situations where, whether by arrangement with the site custodians, or illegally via vandalism, ancient sites have been damaged (temporarily in most cases) in the name of ‘marketing’.

Over the past couple of weeks, a new furore has arisen in Tintagel Cornwall, over a new carving of the ‘face of Merlin’ into the cliff face below Tintagel Castle.

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Apparently, the sculpture is not much larger than life size and takes some effort to locate, being seen only from the base of the cliff. “So what?” you may ask? Well, English Heritage (EH) say this is

“part of ongoing re-interpretation and investment at the site. The new artwork is the first part of a project by English Heritage to re-imagine Tintagel’s history and legends across the island site. Further works will be revealed late this spring.”

The ‘further works’ planned include a large statue of Arthur, a Sword in the Stone sculpture and a scultured stone bench commemorating the legend of Tristan & Yseult. Leaving aside the artistic merit of the sculptures, the moves are being seen locally as ‘false history’, an attempt at further ‘Disneyfication’ of the village and castle site in a direct move to increase tourist footfall, maximising tourism income, and to hell with any authenticity as to historical fact.

Regardless of the local opposition, there is a much bigger issue to be resolved here. Cornish historian (and friend of the Heritage Journal) Craig Weatherhill commented:

“this is just one of 28 visual display proposals for the site, one being an 8.5ft statue of Arthur in late (not early!) medieval gear, to stand on the clifftop on The Island! The Cornwall Archaelogical Unit assess that 9 of these will have a neutral effect on archaeology and visual amenity, but that 19 have minor to moderate negative impacts. ANY negative impact on the archaeology and visual amenity of such an iconic, important and spectacular site should have been refused permission… Of the carving, the CAU says that it will have an irreversible physical impact on the natural environment. i.e. vandalism.”

With the withdrawal of government funding and the need for EH to become ‘self-sufficient’, should they be allowed to sacrifice or change the authenticity of a site in this way in the search for additional income? And if so, where does that leave our heritage, not only at Tintagel but at all the other sites up and down the country that EH are responsible for?

Further Info:

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Cornwall Archaeological Unit: Environmental Impact Assessment

English Heritage: Tintagel Castle

Daily Telegraph: EH accused of vandalism 18 Feb 2016

The Cornishman: Vandalism, or Art? 17 Feb 2016

Archaeodeath: Putting Merlin to Death? Tintagel, Art and the Death of Imagination 15 Feb 2016

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Thanks to VEVO’s Lift series, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar was able to visit the place where it all began when he was brought to his former high school, Centennial High School. According to the rapper this was the period in his life when the experiences and inspirations for his highly successful, independent album Section.80 came about.

“This was a time period where the whole mastermind behind Section.80 began, remembering these experiences. I really wanted to capture that and I feel like it’s an intricate detail, a story within my album,” Kendrick explained.

While his time at Centennial High School consisted of several now laughable moments which include the rapper failing physical education, Kendrick also spoke on more serious moments during his high school career. During his interview with VEVO he recounted one summer where he dreaded walking to summer school due to the fact that the walk put him in the middle of a gang war.

“I failed P.E. in ninth grade,” said Kendrick in a video posted on “And I was good in basketball and sports, but I just didn’t want to get dressed…10th grade summer school I had this class. And this was the time the gang rivals was heavy between my neighborhood and the neighborhood a few blocks down. We would always [debate] like ‘Damn, I hate going to this summer school class cause we gotta walk home at this time in the summertime where we know the war likes to pop off. Around the evening.’ People like to ride through and that’s when the senseless violence is waiting to happen. So I always get that same vibe coming back in this room and just remembering that one hot summer.”

Kendrick is currently preparing for the release of his next album, good kid, m.A.A.d city.

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September 23, 2015

CHP Media Commission warns arrest of Bugün columnist Avcı a grave threat

The public outcry against the arrest of daily Bugün columnist Gültekin Avcı continues to grow, with the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Media Suppression Monitoring Committee warning that this latest media crackdown by Ankara is a threat against any and all journalists.

“This situation is the clearest indication that all journalists are at risk of being put under arrest,” said Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Barış Yarkadaş. “The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) now holds any writing in Turkey as comparable to committing an act of terrorism.”

Daily Bugün columnist Gültekin Avcı, a former public prosecutor and current lawyer of Samanyolu Media Group CEO Hidayet Karaca, was detained on Friday on the orders of Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor-on-duty İrfan Fidan as part of the Tawhid-Salam investigation. Tawhid-Salam is an alleged Iran-backed terrorist organization which was investigated for three years by Turkish police and allegedly involves high ranking politicians.

Seven of Avcı’s columns were submitted as evidence for the charges that he “relayed to members of the FETÖ organization the orders of Fethullah Gülen” and that he “molded public opinion by way of the press.”

FETÖ, or Fethullah Gülen Terrorist Organization, is a derogatory term President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his political associates developed in order to disparage Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has criticized the government, accusing it of being corrupt, of practicing favoritism, and of abusing religion for political and personal gain.

Avcı was placed under arrest Sunday after the prosecutor controversially extended his detention for three days.

Barış Yarkadaş, who serves on the CHP’s Media Suppression Monitoring Committee, noted that Gültekin Avcı had been sent to prison over fabricated reasons that didn’t even exist in the Turkish Criminal Code. “This is the pinnacle of arbitrariness. This is simply not recognizing law.”

“All journalists must come together and take a stand against the AK Party administration’s war on democracy and freedom,” he added, “because the AK Party sees all critical voices as enemies.”

Fellow commission member and MP Eren Erdem suggested that this latest crackdown was simply an attempt by the AK Party to pull the media in line before the Nov. 1 snap elections, especially those media outlets working to disclose government responsibility in the recent escalation of terrorism.

“These attacks against journalists and journalism clearly display how deep President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s fear of Nov. 1 runs,” Erdem said.

He noted that the government was attempting to run Turkey as a narrow oligarchy run by a politburo. “They disregard every basic principle of democracy. And people pay the price. This habit of making people pay the price shows just how far along in dictatorship and fascism we’ve come.”

MP Utku Çakırözer pointed out that the suppression of the media was nothing new: “Such suppression has occurred since 2007. Yesterday a colleague of ours was made a victim, today another colleague, tomorrow it might be someone else. The CHP stands against [this corruption of the law], of it being used [for political reasons]. These are actions that have no place in a society with the rule of law.”

Such actions are the hallmark of authoritarian regimes

CHP Deputy Mahmut Tanal argued that such investigations were completely political and unlawful, ultimately seeking to scare and intimidate people. “The real point is to intimidate all journalists and make the press speak as a single voice. This is a tactic seen in authoritarian regimes. In such regimes, the government is upset by differing opinions, and journalists are molded into a single voice. That’s what they’re trying to do,” said Tanal.

The CHP’s Necati Yılmaz asserted that the press was the guarantor of all freedoms: “By suppressing press freedom, by employing censorship, they’re attempting to close off the channels by which the public receives information.”

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Seyfettin Yılmaz added: “They’re targeting everyone who doesn’t bow to them. These actions unfortunately tarnish Turkey’s image in the world.” His colleague, MHP Deputy Süleyman Korkmaz agreed: “The entire world is laughing at us. They’re mocking us. Meanwhile the government is mocking the public’s intelligence.”

“We have no doubt that President Erdoğan and the people under his command are attempting to establish an empire of fear in Turkey,” said pro-Kurdish, leftwing People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü. “Everything we’re living today is actually seen in all dictatorships. A group that manages to grab power uses the judges, police and secret service under its command to destroy everyone with differing opinions.”

HDP Deputy Ali Kenanoğlu added that not even in the periods of martial law following the coups was media suppression this bad. “Back then journalists were still allowed to do their job somewhat. But now we’ve gotten to a point where any journalist who doesn’t write what the government wants or likes is unable to do their job.”

Former prosecutor for the State Security Court Mete Göktürk said Avcı’s arrest for membership in a terrorist organization over his columns was “unacceptable.”

“Then you could say this for every critical voice,” he pointed out. “This seems to have become the standard attitude taken against all critical voices. Journalists are being detained easily over such allegations. This is not normal.”

Former Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Türk added that Turkey had lost all tolerance for critical voices, saying: “Investigations against people who express themselves and share their thoughts are really about the suppression of opposition voices. Such actions cannot be seen in democratic countries.”

Published on BGNNews, 23 September 2015, Wednesday