One thing that gets you down about Sinhala teledrama is the monotony of their themes. Ginger is not by any means a critic. But he is merely expressing what many viewers would have observed themselves. Pathos, frustration and human weaknesses seem to be the main ingredients that go into the teledrama a mix or guel these days. There are however a whole heap of persons who would like to sit back and relax and watch something less harrowing than what is shown on the mini-screen here. We are vastly superior no doubt to the south Indian producers and directors who put out same amazingly purile rubbish.

How about some really clever detective series? If there aren't many writers who can write such script, why not take some really good English and American ones and translate the script into English and fit it into a local setting. I am sure many of our viewers would like it for a chance. Also our comedy has yet to get anywhere near the stage where we expected it to get by now. Except for one where you yet get some overacting we don't seem to be getting anywhere in that respect.

Well such absurd goings on will never take place within the hallowed precints of our parliament. In fact there is no need for it. In Germany the story is somewhat different. In that once totalitarian state people are allowed to stick their noses into the private lives of the M.Ps.

They even go further. A T.V. company is supposed to have found traces of cocaine in twenty two toilets but top drug officials did not back it up while others felt that it could be a part of strategy to intensify the war againsts drugs. Any way there were many M.Ps who volunteered to have themselves tested for drugs.

Australia lost its Martin Luther King J.R. recently. Charles Parkins died at the relatively early age of sixty four or due to renal failure. Uncle Charlie was very popular among the aboriginal community of Australia for his relentless fight against discrimination against them.

Charlie of course had just the right credentials to fight for his people. He was the first aborigine to graduate from a university and followed this up with another first to become the first to head a government department. He did his best to scare off visitors to the Sydney games just before his death.