In recent times, I think I had concentrated much more Defence and Strategic affairs. Thought of writing something different for a change. What to write was the question. I had to look no further than the good old TV with one of the Malayalam channels in full blast streaming out a soap opera that perhaps was running for ever. This talks about some girl who was facing problems after problems in a never ending saga. It seems it has been running for the last four so years, with the girl acting the lead role changing three times. So is it ridiculous to watch such soaps, no will be the answer that the ladies who are the true followers will give. So what is a soap opera? According to Newyork times, it is a story of continuous narrative with each episode ending with a promise of continuity in the next episode. India's tryst with soap operas began when live television made it's debut. Perhaps the first soap in Indian Television was "Hum Log" that ran in the Dooradars