Yo! (gawd!)

There are so many programmes on so many channels about fitness, exercise and yoga that it is impossible to not start burning calories just on switching on the telly. But as most stuff on it, they can be inadvertently funny. This is especially so on interactive shows where 50% of the time is spent in host, guest and phone-in participant hollering at each other 180 degrees out of phase, usually over echoing of the conversation through the caller's TV.

DD's Tamil channel Podhigai is the local answer to Saturday Night Live, only it is not made up. This morning, I chanced to see one caller phone-in to ask a remedy for her tendency to feel sleepy all the time, especially (and this is what caught the ear) before interviews.

You will be happy to hear that the yogacharya was upto the task and prescribed certain exercises to be done before sleep and after getting up.