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There’s a certain charm about the era when the grown-ups went dancing and the children waited for them at home
by the glow of multi-coloured lights, would can gently pick out and inhale the faint
sail by, singing at the top of their voices, fragrance, while the world around me
waving and cheering. changes so rapidly.
And music! The must have of teenage Rilke says, “There is a garden in every
life, a kind of a safe high. The trusted tape childhood, an enchanted place where colours
recorder would play all our favorites - are brighter, the air softer and the morning
Engelbert Humperdinck, Nancy Sinatra, more fragrant.” Our home and childhood
The Carpenters, The Doors, Kishore Kumar years had endless possibilities of joy, of
and songs from Rajesh Khanna’s films. But genuine laughter and unapologetic fun. It
the highlight was the humble radio. On was a time to gather golden moments, songs
Sundays and holidays radio stations would and stories. Little did I realise then that
air requests – songs dedicated to friends. time would fly on wings of lightning speed.
We would wait with palpable excitement Before I knew, I was a wife, a mother and
and anticipation to hear our names being a grandmother. Everyday life drags me by
called out. These oddball, unexpected little the hand, reminding me of my duties and
moments have stayed with me - bits and obligations – but in brief moments of time
pieces of memory, like flowers pressed travel, I am transported to that magical land
between the pages of an old book that I of childhood.
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