The Bygone Pleasures and fact speaking that could be Bygone too

I wonder why some things didn't stick around. They were good while they were there. Chicken a la Kiev. This unique dish with a chicken breast stuffed with butter, shallow fried to perfection and then put onto a bed of mashed potatoes. With sides of vegetables and onions. Would it have had a longer run if people had a continuous love affair with butter? Or if the mashed potatoes could be replaced by rice of some sort? I don't know. But evidently, something happened. Maybe chefs didn't want to do the hard work of stuffing breasts anymore. Gone from the menus. Musical thrillers. Firstly, the thriller genre has taken a whole lot of beating in India. Writers just cannot write thrillers anymore. Then, putting in songs masterfully is a dead art. We have to go back and watch Nasir Hussain, Manmohan Desai, Vijay Anand and Raj Khosla to get what these films were. How good were they? Just imagine a film, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika, running through the streets of Rome, punchy music in the background, villains after them, they having a code or something, they enter a club and disguise themselves, a song happens, the villains are outwitted during the song and the pair runs away. To Cairo or something. Ah, wishes! The magic of family TV watching. This is surely over. Done with. Even a decade back, people used to sit post dinner and watch a new episode of something, usually the Indian language serials, and laugh or cry with the characters. That's over. The children don't watch TV anymore. Men like me have given up too, sports aside. Some elders do sit but then they are not the entire family. How fast and how swift this change has been? Many things one can come up with. The family doctor. The STD booth. Evening snack with tea. Sewing as an art. I will add one more.. Speaking facts. This is an art that's also fast going towards extinction. I wouldn't call it lies or untruths all the while as yet. But keeping to facts is declining. On phone, over messages and even face to face, I find people inserting some spins, non - facts, speculation and White lies into the conversation. What we feel is that the facts aren't powerful enough. Fine. Collect facts from different experiences and present it better. Use the art of communication in a better why but why insert non - facts. Our politicians do it because that's how they get votes. What do we get? And that's why I only watch sports now. Unalloyed facts. Nothing else. There's very little spin one can do with a magical goal from Mo Salah or Messi, you see! Or even play it when I can. Or talk about it. Even in meeting rooms. People relate. Understand. Truth begets trust. #Storify.