imnotamit
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Hi everybody..i've some excerpts..I hope u like it..
When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy), chhepan-chhepai and pitthoo anytime ...
When we desperately waited for 'yeh jo hai zindagi' ..
When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki kahaniyaan were so
fulfilling ...
When there was just one TV in every five houses and
When bisleris were not sold in the trains and we were worrying if papas
will get back into the train in time or not when they were getting down at stations to fill up the water bottle ...
When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the 'yeh jo hai jindagi' day ...
When Holis & Diwalis meant mostly hand-made pakwaans and sweets and moms
seeking our help while preparing them
When Maths teachers were not worried of our mummys and papas while
slapping/beating us ...
When we were exchanging comics and stamps and chacha-chaudaris and billus
were our heroes ...
When we were in NANKE every summer and loved flying kites and plucking and
eating unripe mangoes and leechis ..
When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked for
and 'ek do teen chaar' and 'Rajni' inspired us ...
When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees ...
When left over pages of the last years notebooks were used for rough work
or even fair work ...
When 'CHELPARK' and 'NATRAAJ' were encouraged against 'reynolds and family' ...
When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud and
making 'kaagaz ki kishtis' ...
When there were no phones to tell friends that we will be at their homes at
six in the evening ...
When our parents always had 15 paise blue colored 'antardesis' and 5 paise
machli wale stamps at home
When we remembered tens of jokes and were not finding 'ice-cream and papa'
type jokes foolish enough to stop us from laughing ...
When we were not seeing patakhes on Diwalis and gulaals on Holis as air and
noise polluting or allergic agents
The list can be endless ...
On the serious note I would like to summarise with...
When we were using our hearts more than our brains, even for scientifically
brainy activities like'thinking' and 'deciding'
When we were crying and laughing more often, more openly and more sincerily ...
When we were enjoying our present more than worrying about our future
When being emotional was not synonymous to being weak
When sharing worries and happiness didn't mean getting vulnerable to the
listener ...
When blacks and whites were the favorite colors instead of greys ...
When journeys also were important and not just the destinations When life
was a passenger's sleeper giving enough time and opportunity to enjoy the
scenaries from its open and transparent glass windows instead of some
superfast's second ac with its curtained, closed and dark windows...
I really miss it.. do U?
Let there be NO Hurries and NO Worries....and cherish this PRESENT..
GL to everyone...
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| dev
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hey umade me cry 
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| dev
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but I miss each and everything about home.
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| doc_droc_apurva
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im gonna retire at 65 and take up a honorary chair at my alma mater - that is if they consider me competitive enuf
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| pjohnson
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Hey amit
you summarised the past beautifully
I wish life was that simple as it was earlier
miss those days....
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| Doc2378
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Excellent post, Imnoamit...gawd, I wanna go home...!!
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| baby rose
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hi innominate u made me cry,
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| usmlecracker
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hey innominate..thats made me recall all those memories..
thats really good
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| platinum
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imnotamit,
undoubtedly the most moving post i ever read on this site. it is an art to mould your thoughts into words.most people may have had these feelings latent in them... u just helped us realise those feelings........... AISA DES HAI MERA....HOME SWEET HOME!!!
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| imnotamit
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After I came to US, I realised that I love my family and country so much...
thank u everybody..GL
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| amygdalaa
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This is really touching.
I used to wait for nukkad- I just loved it. Yes, I was always worried my dad wont make it back to the train in time :-)
Every sunday, if we didn't have exm or homework, we would so look forward to the movie :-) Now you get movies (that too, dumb ones) 36 hours a day ;-)
thanks
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| laptop
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MY DIARY
There was a big reservoir of dirty water in my town which the swimmer in me always wanted to fathom.I did succeed indeed in floating on the surface by getting inside an inflated inner tube of a cars tyre .Once I decided to step into a bigger venture and grabbed a Trucks tube .I also decided to throw caution to the water by diving like a projectile from a height instead of gently sliding into dirty water from the sidewalls .
Result -I flew at a faster speed than tube did ; couldnt hold on to the tube coz its inner radius was too big for my hands span .My clavicle gave way and i learned swimming so well that two people had to jump in that prohibitively filthy water to stop my pendulam like involuntary motion .Frogs, for once, got excited thinking that they had a new inmate but they had to swallow disappointment in the end .
Good old memories.
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| crab
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I remember once when the power went off just before the Sunday evening movie. To make matters worse, electricity arrived just for the climax scene & then Amitabh Bachchan died.....
I was a really sad 6-7 year old that night....
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| msp
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Amazing post imnotamit . Made me get goosepimples like Rehman's song from Swades... "Yeh jo des hain mera...."
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| drhouston
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Excellent post imnotamit. Made me happy ( remembering the sweet old simple days) and sad (missing my country) at the same time.
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| fox
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Nostalgic..heart warming memories....
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| budesonide
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I almost felt like i wrote it.
interesting and very happy that someone thinks like me
I feel all this ambitiousness has taken away the real happiness.
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