Sharing some of her salt-and-pepper experiences in conducting talk shows on television, actress and popular television anchor Priya Tendulkar said that an average Indian had caved in to the existing system and had lost the will to fight against it. ``We all have learnt to sit idle, be passive to things around us and continue to live like we are,"she remarked.

Tendulkar was speaking at a function organised by Yuva Bharati, a youth organisation, where she presented the ``Yuva Pune Gaurav Puraskar'' to Shrikant Mundada of Hriday Mitra Pratishthan for rendering yeomen service to poor heart patients. Sitting on the other side of the camera, Tendulkar braved the rally of questions from the audience ranging from the her most popular role of a no-nonsense middle-class woman in Rajani to her own `Priya Tendulkar's Show.''

"It is not that I absorbed the character of Rajani in my attitude, instead the my own nature matched that of a woman who can fight for her rights," remarked Tendulkar who became a household name in the late 1980s with the serial Rajani. Earlier, presenting the award to Mundada, Tendulkar lauded him for his efforts in taking up the cause of poor heart patients. ``Youth like Mundada serve as a source of inspiration to the society," she remarked.