Felt like sharing it.....yet again....
Superb stuff for those who grew up during the 1970 - '90s in middle class India ; here are some things that you can identify with.......
1. Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 12 - 17 years, you were very proud of your first "Bellbottom" or your first "Maxi".
2. Phantom and Mandrake were your only true heroes. The brainy ones read "Competition Success Review".
3. Your "Camlin" geometry box and Natraj/Flora pencil were your prized possessions.
4. The only "Holidays" you took were to go to your 'grandparents' or your 'cousins' houses.
5. Ice-cream meant only - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick - or a Choco Bar if you were better off than most.
6. You gave your neighbour's phone number to others with a 'PP' written against it because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and were still waiting for your number to come.
7. Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches. You "earned" yours after HSC exams.
8. You have been to "Jumbo Circus" ;
have held your breath while the pretty young thing in the glittering skirt did acrobatics,
quite enjoyed the elephants hitting football,
the motorcyclist vrooming in the "Maut-ka-gola"
and it was politically okay to laugh your guts out at the dwarves hitting each others bottoms!
9. You have at least once heard "Hawa Mahal" and "Binaca Geetmala" on the radio.
10. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighbourhood to gather around to wait and watch the Chitrahaar on Fridays or the Sunday movie.
If you didn't have a TV, you just went to a house that did.
It mattered little if you knew the owners or not.
11. Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi or even tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their Weston TVs.
That confused the hell out of you!
12. Black and white TVs weren't so bad after all because cricket was played in whites.
13. You thought that your dad rocked because you got your own (the family's; not your own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started.
Everyone else got the same idea as well and ever since,
no one came over to your house and you didn't go to anyone else's to watch TV.
14. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would announce on the TV. After all how much "Shastriya Sangeet" can a kid take?
15. You knew that "Indira Gandhi" was somebody really powerful and terribly important. And that's all you needed to know.
16. The only "Gadgets" in the house were the TV, the Fridge and possibly a mixer.
17. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan. Before the start of the movie you always had to watch the obligatory "Newsreel".
18. You thought you were so rocking because you knew all the songs of Abba and Boney M.
19. Photograph taking was a big thing.
You were lucky if your family owned a camera.
A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation and "setting" and the "posing" for each picture.
Therefore, you have at least one family picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing in attention!
PS.
Please share with your children for they won't understand the half of it!
Even if it's a repeat, worth reading.
Those were the days my friends and they will never come back again.
Tailpiece.
Got up on the dot at 6, washing machinex of the bed linen, the chores and was ready by a half past 10.
Suma had made idlis and sambar for breakfast.
Lekha, along with Suma, had gone across to the ration shop to collect our kit for the month of May. te maid washed down the two sets of soiled clothes.
Our unpacking was complete and the bags were put back into the loft, where they are stowed.
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