Educating the Indian Audience

Though I am drawing the inspiration for this write up from my personal experience in magic. Infact any performance artist has to face this in India. Seldom do we find that the Indian audience applauds properly. Its like its too hard to appreciate or appear to appreciate a performance. The poor M.C. has to coax and coerce the onlookers to applaud.
Our western cournter parts however are much ahead of us in this department. I have fond memories of the T.V. broadcasts of Oscars on the DoorDarshan channel. The audience will hoot and clap and in general its fun to watch the proceedings. Not the same with our home grown stock. One may mistakenly think that we have airs about appreciating the art. I am sure that is not the case, its just that we have not been trained and educated properly. Just like there are schools that teach table manners , oh well if not a school atleast one expects the MCs to raise the awareness by reminding the audience to be polite and applaud. After all the artist has put in a lot of effort to present his or her art to the public.

motivation

i am one of those bastards who will do anything to find the worst reason for not doing their job properly. i am a cry baby, crying and whining my way to the end of my miserable life.

i did start this blog with the intention of being regular with it however i always found a reason to be not. ppl like me who want to be in the spot light, ppl who want to be the centre of attraction phony ppl with no real interest in what they are saying or doing. they just do it for the sake of being noticed or because they noticed somebody else doing what they are doing now.

my current reason is GS. he was my mate at IITK during his term here as an m. tech. student. head over to his blog here and read it and comment on it.

there was a time when i used to think a lot about the problems with this society and many a times i thought i had a solution to them as well. but now i am too old to solve other problems when my life itself is the biggest problem of them all.

but writing this blog is probably the only way i have that can be called interaction with this darn world. so even if GS does not egg me on, i will try to be regular.

thanks gs for all this. thanks a lot !!!!!!!!!!!!!