Syed Ali Mujtaba
* When we were in grannies house every summer and loved flying kites and plucking and eating unripe mangoes and leeches ...
* When we always had friends to play aais-paais (I Spy), chhepan-chhepai and pitthoo anytime...
* When we remembered tens of jokes and enjoyed non-stop laughing...
* When gulli-danda and marbles were more popular than cricket...
* When we were exchanging comics and chacha-chaudaris and billus were our heroes...
* When the first rain meant getting drenched and playing in water and mud and making paper boats -'kaagaj ki kishtis’...
* When Math teachers were not worried of our parents in slapping us...
* When left over pages of last years notebooks were used for rough work or even fair work...
* When filling the ink pen from the ink bottle and after doing so cleaning our hands was an exercise…
* When 'chelpark' and 'natraaj' were encouraged against 'reynolds and family'...
* When there was just one TV in every five houses and …
* When one movie every Sunday evening on television was more than asked for and 'ek do teen chaar' and 'Rajni' inspired us ...
* When chitrahaar, vikram-baitaal, dada daadi ki kahaniyaan on TV were so fulfilling ...
* When we were going to bed by 9.00pm sharp except for the 'yeh jo hai jindagi' day on TV...
* When crackers on Shabe-barats and Diwalis and colors on Holis were not seen as air and noise polluting or allergic agents...
* When Idd and Bakrid meant wearing new cloths and eating home-made delicacies and sweets...
* When there were no cell phones to tell friends that we will be at their homes at six in the evening...
* When there were no E mails and 10 paise postcard, 25 paise envelop and with 5 paise wale stamps were used to send letters...
* When 50 paisa meant at least 10 toffees...
* 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 life was a passenger trains sleeper compartment giving enough time and opportunity to enjoy the sceneries from its open and transparent glass windows instead of some superfast’s second AC with its curtained, closed and dark windows...
* The list can be endless...
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