[FONT="]Seventy's Middle Class India - Elderly will remember olden days [/FONT]
[FONT="]& Youngsters will Laugh
[/FONT][FONT="]
For those who grew up during the 70s in middle class India, here are some[/FONT]
[FONT="] things that you can identify with – atleast I do! [/FONT]
[FONT="]
Some never had a thing and went house to house to enjoy them.
1. Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 12-17 years,you were very[/FONT]
[FONT="] proud of your first "Bellbottom" or your first "Maxi"or your first Apache jeans.
2. Phantom & Mandrake were your only true heroes. [/FONT]
[FONT="] The brainy ones read "Competition Success Review".
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 - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick – ora Choco Bar if you [/FONT]
[FONT="] were better off than most.
6. You gave your neighbour’s phone number to others with a ‘c/o’ written against it [/FONT]
[FONT="] because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and were still waiting for your [/FONT]
[FONT="] number to come.
7. Your first family car (and the only one) was a Fiat or an Ambassador. This often had [/FONT]
[FONT="] 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 [/FONT]
[FONT="] and used to irk the shit out of you! The window went down only if your puny arm could [/FONT]
[FONT="] manage the tacky rotary handle to pull it down. Locking the door was easy. You just [/FONT]
[FONT="] whacked the other tacky, non-rotary handle downwards.
9. Your mom had stitched the weirdest lace curtains for all the windows of the car. [/FONT]
[FONT="] They were tied in the middle and if your dad was the comfort-oriented kinds, you [/FONT]
[FONT="] 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[/FONT]
[FONT="] thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the elephants hitting football,[/FONT]
[FONT="] the motorcyclist vrooming in the "Mautka Gola" and it was politically okay to laugh[/FONT]
[FONT="] your guts out at dwarfs hitting each others bottoms!
12. You have atleast once heard "Hawa Mahal" on the radio.
13. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighborhood to gather around to [/FONT]
[FONT="] watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn't have a TV, you just went to [/FONT]
[FONT="] 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 [/FONT]
[FONT="] tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their [/FONT]
[FONT="] Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!
15. Black & White TVs weren't so bad after all because cricket was played in whites.
16. You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own (the family's; not your [/FONT]
[FONT="] own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started.Everyone else got the same [/FONT]
[FONT="] idea as well and ever since, no one came over to your house and you didn't go[/FONT]
[FONT="] to anyone else's.
17. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would[/FONT]
[FONT="] announce on the TV. After all how much "Shashtriya Sangeet" can a kid take? Salma [/FONT]
[FONT="] Sultana also didn't smile during the mourning.
18. You knew that "Indira Gandhi" was somebody really powerful and terribly important. [/FONT]
[FONT="] And that's 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 a crochet covers and sometimes even [/FONT]
[FONT="] with ingenious, custom-fit plastic covers.
21. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan. Before the start of the movie [/FONT]
[FONT="] you always had to watch the obligatory "Newsreel".
22. You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs of Abba [/FONT]
[FONT="] and Boney M.
23. Your hormones went crazy when you heard "Disco Deewane" by Naziya Hassan [/FONT]
[FONT="] & Zoheb Hassan.
24. School teachers, your parents and even your neighbours could whack you and it [/FONT]
[FONT="] was all okay.
25. Photograph taking was a big thing. You were lucky if your family owned a camera.[/FONT]
[FONT="] A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation &[/FONT]
[FONT="] "setting" & the "posing" for each picture. Therefore, you have atleast one family [/FONT]
[FONT="] picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing at attention!
And we were really happy then....see what the new technology has brought you to[/FONT]
[FONT="]...no peace of mind, only pressure and stress..
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[FONT="]& Youngsters will Laugh
[/FONT][FONT="]
For those who grew up during the 70s in middle class India, here are some[/FONT]
[FONT="] things that you can identify with – atleast I do! [/FONT]
[FONT="]
Some never had a thing and went house to house to enjoy them.
1. Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 12-17 years,you were very[/FONT]
[FONT="] proud of your first "Bellbottom" or your first "Maxi"or your first Apache jeans.
2. Phantom & Mandrake were your only true heroes. [/FONT]
[FONT="] The brainy ones read "Competition Success Review".
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 - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick – ora Choco Bar if you [/FONT]
[FONT="] were better off than most.
6. You gave your neighbour’s phone number to others with a ‘c/o’ written against it [/FONT]
[FONT="] because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and were still waiting for your [/FONT]
[FONT="] number to come.
7. Your first family car (and the only one) was a Fiat or an Ambassador. This often had [/FONT]
[FONT="] 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 [/FONT]
[FONT="] and used to irk the shit out of you! The window went down only if your puny arm could [/FONT]
[FONT="] manage the tacky rotary handle to pull it down. Locking the door was easy. You just [/FONT]
[FONT="] whacked the other tacky, non-rotary handle downwards.
9. Your mom had stitched the weirdest lace curtains for all the windows of the car. [/FONT]
[FONT="] They were tied in the middle and if your dad was the comfort-oriented kinds, you [/FONT]
[FONT="] 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[/FONT]
[FONT="] thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the elephants hitting football,[/FONT]
[FONT="] the motorcyclist vrooming in the "Mautka Gola" and it was politically okay to laugh[/FONT]
[FONT="] your guts out at dwarfs hitting each others bottoms!
12. You have atleast once heard "Hawa Mahal" on the radio.
13. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighborhood to gather around to [/FONT]
[FONT="] watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn't have a TV, you just went to [/FONT]
[FONT="] 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 [/FONT]
[FONT="] tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two side clips onto their [/FONT]
[FONT="] Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!
15. Black & White TVs weren't so bad after all because cricket was played in whites.
16. You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own (the family's; not your [/FONT]
[FONT="] own own!) colour TV when the Asian Games started.Everyone else got the same [/FONT]
[FONT="] idea as well and ever since, no one came over to your house and you didn't go[/FONT]
[FONT="] to anyone else's.
17. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they would[/FONT]
[FONT="] announce on the TV. After all how much "Shashtriya Sangeet" can a kid take? Salma [/FONT]
[FONT="] Sultana also didn't smile during the mourning.
18. You knew that "Indira Gandhi" was somebody really powerful and terribly important. [/FONT]
[FONT="] And that's 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 a crochet covers and sometimes even [/FONT]
[FONT="] with ingenious, custom-fit plastic covers.
21. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan. Before the start of the movie [/FONT]
[FONT="] you always had to watch the obligatory "Newsreel".
22. You thought you were so rocking because you knew almost all the songs of Abba [/FONT]
[FONT="] and Boney M.
23. Your hormones went crazy when you heard "Disco Deewane" by Naziya Hassan [/FONT]
[FONT="] & Zoheb Hassan.
24. School teachers, your parents and even your neighbours could whack you and it [/FONT]
[FONT="] was all okay.
25. Photograph taking was a big thing. You were lucky if your family owned a camera.[/FONT]
[FONT="] A reel of 36 exposures was valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation &[/FONT]
[FONT="] "setting" & the "posing" for each picture. Therefore, you have atleast one family [/FONT]
[FONT="] picture where everyone is holding their breath and standing at attention!
And we were really happy then....see what the new technology has brought you to[/FONT]
[FONT="]...no peace of mind, only pressure and stress..
__._,_.___[/FONT]
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