IT IS a scenario that is repeated across all homes and tea shops nowadays. Here, a few persons who had come together for a meal, would passively watch and retain in the deep recesses of their minds.

A TV tuned on one news channel or another, starts giving out doomsday prophecies based on all things, from a thousand year old Aztec calendar, to rising tsunamis, to the movements of the planets, with eerie music effects and unreasonable information. The people who hear the messages and believe them, often even start making plans for the remaining years.