On World Television Day, we find out that the TV has come to mean different things to different generations

Onkar Banerjee remembers the 1986 Fifa World Cup final like it was yesterday. “Back then there would be, at most, one TV in the entire neighbourhood. I was barely a teenager but stayed up all night at my friend’s house watching Maradona lift the trophy. Why, I even remember running home thereafter with street dogs at my heels,” laughs the CK Block resident.

And then there’s Amrapali Jana, a 20-something IT sector employee who has two TVs at home, both showpieces. “My parents, sister and I watch Netflix and the like on our phones and laptops. My grandparents would watch TV but after they passed away we didn’t renew the set top box subscriptions and the TV sets now gather dust.