As I was making my pilla go off to sleep amid of elephant thumping on the wooden ceiling of the heavyweight champions upstairs.. I thought and now a days think a lot of small small incidents of past
Of the almost daily "kulphiyo" chants of kulfi vendor late in the silent night. That time even 10-10.30 pm was also silent..
A shop closing and locking and person going home. Of pretty rakhis.. Of Barbie dresses at 21 INR..of the "sorat" at the old lady's shack, who was called murgiwali as she had hen selling business as well. Choosing chooran and tasting it bit by bit. Of the person who used to sit near municipal school with his mobile dirty green box that had wares of the world. The colored saunf and the one with red and green sugar beads.. The chewy Chikki and non eatables like whistles and the "photo" which was like a thick glass square with 4 photos on one side and 4 on other. Pictures of train and bus and lion. The old bhaiya who used to carry a glass box of pink cotton candy the another one who used to carry different chikkis and ale pak or ginger toffee in pink. The jaw breaking chaklis at udupi store. The cool sugarcane juice at sugarcane vendor that got over just a bit too soon. The jali fryums that aai used to get rarely or the potato chips which she used to make home. The shivsena wala's batatavada the different candies including aa sweets kaju vadi.. Tapioca wafers and samosa near my school. Treats were rare and that's what made them just so unreal.. This seems to be my list but in my mind it's a cute kaleidoscope of sepia images some of them forgotten.. Some of them still there..I won't and I cannot say that I want to experience that again but yes I have to note them down before my aging brain loses them ;)
Of the almost daily "kulphiyo" chants of kulfi vendor late in the silent night. That time even 10-10.30 pm was also silent..
A shop closing and locking and person going home. Of pretty rakhis.. Of Barbie dresses at 21 INR..of the "sorat" at the old lady's shack, who was called murgiwali as she had hen selling business as well. Choosing chooran and tasting it bit by bit. Of the person who used to sit near municipal school with his mobile dirty green box that had wares of the world. The colored saunf and the one with red and green sugar beads.. The chewy Chikki and non eatables like whistles and the "photo" which was like a thick glass square with 4 photos on one side and 4 on other. Pictures of train and bus and lion. The old bhaiya who used to carry a glass box of pink cotton candy the another one who used to carry different chikkis and ale pak or ginger toffee in pink. The jaw breaking chaklis at udupi store. The cool sugarcane juice at sugarcane vendor that got over just a bit too soon. The jali fryums that aai used to get rarely or the potato chips which she used to make home. The shivsena wala's batatavada the different candies including aa sweets kaju vadi.. Tapioca wafers and samosa near my school. Treats were rare and that's what made them just so unreal.. This seems to be my list but in my mind it's a cute kaleidoscope of sepia images some of them forgotten.. Some of them still there..I won't and I cannot say that I want to experience that again but yes I have to note them down before my aging brain loses them ;)
