Dear Friends, My dear most father sent me this below subject thro email. I want to share it to you. Walking down memory lane and feeling nostalgic ! Dear friends, The 1970s Reloaded.....This will make sense only to Indians above 50 1. Though you may not publicly own up to this, at the age of 12-17 years,you were very proud of your first Bellbottom or your first Maxior your first Apache jeans. 2. Phantom Mandrake were your only true heroes. The brainy ones readCompetition Success Review. (Absolutely true!) 3. Your Camlin geometry box Natraj/Flora pencil was your prized possession. 4. The only Holidays you took were to go to your grandparents or your cousins houses. 5. Ice-cream meant only - an orange stick, a vanilla stick – or a Chocó Bar if you were better off than most. 6. You gave your neighbour’s phone number to others with a ‘c/o’ written against it because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and were still waiting for your number to come. 7. Your first family car (and the only one) was a Fiat or an Ambassador. This often had to be pushed by the entire family to get going. 8. The glass windows in the back seats used to get stuck at the two-thirds down level and used to irk the shit out of you! The window went down only if your puny arm could manage the tacky rotary handle to pull it down. Locking the door was easy. You just whacked the other tacky, non-rotary handle downwards. 9. Your mom had stitched the weirdest lace curtains for all the windows of the car. They were tied in the middle and if your dad was the comfort-oriented kinds, you had a magnificent small fan upfront. 10. Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches. You earned yours after SSC exams. 11. You have been to Jumbo Circus; have held your breath while the pretty young thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the elephants hitting football, the motorcyclist vrooming in the Mauth ka Gola and it was politically okay to laugh your guts out at dwarfs hitting each others bottoms! 12. You at least once heard Hawa Mahal on the radio. 13. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighborhood to gather around to watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didnt have a TV, you just went to a house that did. It mattered little if you knew the owners or not. 14. Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi or even a tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you! 15. Black and White TVs werent so bad after all, because cricket and tennis were played in white costumes. 16. You thought your dad rocked because you got your own (the familys; not your 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 didnt go to anyone elses. 17. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would announce on the TV. After all how much Shashtriya Sangeet can a kid take? Salma Sultana also didnt smile during the mourning. 18. You knew that Indira Gandhi was somebody really powerful and terribly important. And thats all you needed to know. 19. The only Gadgets in the house were the TV, the Fridge and possibly a mixer. 20. All the gadgets had to be duly covered with cockroach covers and sometimes even with ingenious, custom-fit plastic covers. 21. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan. Before the start of the movie you always had to watch the obligatory Newsreel. 22. You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs of Abba and Boney M. 23. Your hormones went crazy when you heard Disco Deewane by Naziya Hassan Zoheb Hassan. 24. School teachers, your parents and even your neighbours could whack you and it was all okay. 25. 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 setting the posing for each picture. Therefore, you have atleast one family picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing at attention! 26. During Diwali /idd celebaration it was family clothes tailored from our favourite tailor down the road with all shirt pant and and sisters clothes with same cloth design.. it was common... 27. We walked to school or took a bus or by a second hand rickety bicycle; the ones who got dropped by car were always RICH ones. 28. Our outdoor games were gully danda, marbles, stick in the mud , langdi, lagoori , abba dubhi , Dog and the bone, chupa chupi ( my favourite) .... 29. Going out to eat in a restaurant was an occasion maybe once /twice in a year. 30. Mostly we managed with one pair of shoes for the whole year at school, our elder brothers / sisters clothes and books were passed on to us for school... 31. Duck back raincoats were premium that we could get while leaving for school in rainy season every year... Did you hear anyone say, OLD IS GOLD? Naheen Jaane kahaan gaye wo din...... Best Wishes P. M.Ganapathy Subramanyam ( My Father)
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:29:26 +0000
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