Social Impact
See also: Socio-economic issues in IndiaSoaps have an impact on Indian society, with regard to national integration, identity, globalisation, women and ethics.
India has never been left out of the cable, television and satellite revolution: a recent survey says that over 112 million households in India own a television. In the span of just 10–15 years since cable connection became available, cable or satellite penetration has reached 60% in Indian states such as Tamil Nadu mainly to watch the serials, even if the average income of the household is below 100 per person per day. The growth of television in rural areas has had a large effect on a wide range of day-to-day lifestyle behaviors. Seeing the city lifestyles portrayed in the serials, villagers have started educating the girl child and stopped social evils like female infanticide and so on.
People, ranging from children to grandparents love to watch the serials after the hectic and stressful day. It not only revives them but they get so much lost in the serials that they start to take them as a part of their day-to-day life and they become very serious on it come to these terms.
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