With June 25, 2009 coming to an end, a chapter got closed, with the news of MJ’s death. Located far away from our world, during the heavily regulated times of information / music & video’s being available to us; he had represented the liberal times to come. Reflecting on those earlier times I am startled and stunned how we as a nation accepted then to have a single channel being beamed across our TV’s in 85’s and 90’s by the maai-baap Doordarshan and the babus there deciding on the content we were to watch. Never ever do I remember having seen a performance being aired of his. And he was considered one of the best entertainers in business then. His music was path breaking then and is so relevant even today.
With his music, his dance, and the gaiety in his entertaining performances MJ symbolised the arrival of a new generation which then grew up from Color TV’s to HDTV’s, DVD’s and then YouTube. Troubled in his life for reasons best known to him, curtains came down on legendary entertainer, and the undisputed king of pop.
