Long long so long ago, there used to be mosquito repellents were synonymous to a brand name called Tortoise. Those days tortoise coils were household name and the need was very low. Those days mosquitoes were not such a big threat as these days.
Slowly the business evolved and Godrej conglomerate came up with goodnight mats , it was a big hit in the early 90s. It was a big relief for the coil users that mats did come with pleasant aroma when compared to smokes of the coils.
Then came a brand called All-Out with liquid formula, which was quite popular for some time. It was quite effective those days, and it was popular for its ad, where East Asians featured in it. I firmly believed then, it was a brand straight from Japan.
Then many brands such as Mortein, Odomos came and ruled the market for some time.
All these years only one thing is constant, and no prize for guessing. It is mosquito. Since I lived in multiple towns, I myself have witnessed at least 6 to 7 species of mosquitoes. Each of them is unique in its own ways. Mosquito repellent business grown as big as 10000 crore market along with the increase in species of mosquitoes in India.
Those days if we had any of those repellents and you would not want to worry about your sleep in night. In the last two years I started with Goodnight Advanced, with normal mode it was quite effective and ensured that I got good sleep at night. Slowly it became ineffective, then I changed to Active mode as advertised, to my surprise it worked well for me.
Then Active mode became ineffective as well, then I bought white one from Goodnight. I had to shell out a few more bucks for the new one, and I assumed it must be damn good. Miserably it had no effect on the mosquitoes. Then I was looking for GoodNight Mats(back to square one :-)). I managed to find one, when I switched the mat ON, the aroma was so strong I attained inner peace hoping that the mosquito would not be so strong as me to bear the pungent smell!! I was proven wrong by the mosquitoes of Chitlapakkam. Last night I slept for just 3 hours, my sleeping pattern is like if I encounter disturbed sleep in a night, thats it! My sleeping quota is over for that night.
I developed anxiety when I started thinking about all the things which I written above. Have the mosquitoes developed their armory to counter these fancy repellents or these companies are going for a ride on money ?. I remembered the movie called Mist, where all the small insects would become super size as a result of failed scientific experiments. It came into my mind and I forgot to sleep.
