(Dec 13, 11:43am)
It's not nearly as cold in Delhi as I imagined..
Did you realise, X-mas and New Year is approaching?
Most of us would not.. life's become really fast...
In the good, old 1990s, after the schools were closed for winter vacation by the 6th or 7th of December, we'd be counting days for the new year!
XXX
There was no cable tv, no laptop, no other big means to keep yourself occupied.. so we'd read books, which we'd have bought from the book fair, which was usually upon the first to second week of December..
Or we'd read the special columns or write-ups about the new year season in the English dailies and weeklies..
Sometimes when we liked some article very much, we'd read it once again at leisure time.. normally the cold, long afternoons.. and share that with grandmom when we visited her...
XXX
Sometimes, there would be a good X-mas movie, which we would watch with great relish.. and after making sure that we had informed all our relatives, family friends and others, that there was a good movie on such and such day, such and such time.. so that they may not miss it..
I also remember few family friends dropping in at this time of the year.. it was meant for home-to-home socialising in those days... the schools having closed, and the boys pressing on their parents to take them out..
XXX
It's not nearly as cold in Delhi as I imagined..
Did you realise, X-mas and New Year is approaching?
Most of us would not.. life's become really fast...
In the good, old 1990s, after the schools were closed for winter vacation by the 6th or 7th of December, we'd be counting days for the new year!
XXX
There was no cable tv, no laptop, no other big means to keep yourself occupied.. so we'd read books, which we'd have bought from the book fair, which was usually upon the first to second week of December..
Or we'd read the special columns or write-ups about the new year season in the English dailies and weeklies..
Sometimes when we liked some article very much, we'd read it once again at leisure time.. normally the cold, long afternoons.. and share that with grandmom when we visited her...
XXX
Sometimes, there would be a good X-mas movie, which we would watch with great relish.. and after making sure that we had informed all our relatives, family friends and others, that there was a good movie on such and such day, such and such time.. so that they may not miss it..
I also remember few family friends dropping in at this time of the year.. it was meant for home-to-home socialising in those days... the schools having closed, and the boys pressing on their parents to take them out..
XXX
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