6th June shall go down as the saddest day in the annals of Indian television industry!!....... No bigger calamity ever befell the industry before this…… the day shall be remembered as BLACK …. No… GRAY…. No …. ‘WHITE Wednesday’….. Indian television’s most beloved daughter…. Err…. I mean mother….. err I mea mother-in-law….. I mean grand-mother…. Sorry… I mean great-grand mother-in-law’s sister’s mother shall bid adieu to the greatest ever television sop to have been produced in India…..Yes people….. TULSI, the ‘PERENNIAL FOUNTAIN’ of Indian Television shall part with the ‘CZAR OF DAILY SOP OPERAS’ Ekta Kapoor…… the most defining separation and partition in the recorded history of (wo)man-kind……. 7 years of mentor-prodigy relation shall give way!!...... after having survived innumerable generation leaps and reaching an enviable age of immortality, the ‘SHISYA’ shall move away from the patronage of the ‘GURU’, who played an instrumental part in Tulsi’s unprecedented achievement of being a saas + bahu + beti + maa + dadi + chaci + mami + bua + par-dadi + choti-maa + badi-maa = SMRITI Z. IRANI…. Who wouldn’t wanna fulfill all those relations as this one solitary soul had done…….. the media coverage this particular separation has attracted has easily outclassed the 9/11 bombings….. Had 2 be…... its TULSI after all…… the person who has mastered the art of relentlessly and ceaselessly crying for days on end, killing her own son, remembering names of 3…. Maybe 4….. I think 5 husbands……. Saving her family from ‘BARBADI’ for more than 120 years…. That’s the word that makes Tulsi what she is ‘BARBADI’….. a living example of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology..…. Truth and Forgiveness have paramount importance….. Who else but her can associate as much importance to such vital values???..... Repeating the same dialogue persistently for 8 long years, without showing an iota of boredom or remorse or happiness, without flexing a muscle certainly takes helluva lotta of doing!!........

No wonder the day has been so gloomy and so cloudy….. the sun didn’t shine as brightly….. the character has struck the right chords with nature….. even nature seems to rhyme with this major major calamity….. from today I sincerely vow to observe 2 minutes silence on every 6th June hereafter to commemorate her invaluable contribution to the cause of ENTERTAINING INDIA!!..... KUDOS TULSI!!