60 Things That Defined Your Childhood In India
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1. Getting a brand-new geometry box was the only good thing about the end of the summer.
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2. This is how you decided whether someone deserved your friendship, love, affection, marriage, enmity, or sisterhood.
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3. There were a lot of top-notch beverages competing for your attention…
But, after a long day of school, nothing was more refreshing than a chilled glass of this:
4. You didn’t have Halloween, but all the “fancy dress” parties more than made up for it.
And you were a pro at climbing up any mango tree, ever, no matter how tall.
7. This dude was terrifying, and you genuinely had nightmares about him. Thanks, Onida.
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9. You could recognize these smells anywhere, anytime.
10. You became a pro at painting and repainting these stylish Batas every few weeks.
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12. You caused your middle finger some serious harm trying to get good at this:
13. And you knew the first line of every song, from all your bus antakshari sessions.
15. For most of your childhood, you thought this phrase legitimately meant something.
17. Your birthday = a reason to wear your nicest outfit to school and hand out candy to everyone.
Seriously, every time you saw this happen on TV, you needed it to happen for you in real life.
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20. Power cuts were a glorious time when you were exempt from doing homework and had no choice but to go outside and play in the dark.
22. At some point, you were chased around the house by your mother trying to put oil in your hair.
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23. Thanks to your various school uniforms, you know words like “culottes” and “pinafores.”
Either way, “color dress” or “free dress” days were the best days.
26. There was one of these somewhere in the city, and you got to go there when you needed special books.
27. This godsend, masquerading as a digestive pill, was the most delicious thing you would ever eat.
And this more serious, legit digestive cure would keep your breath foul for days.
31. There was nothing in the world as mouth-meltingly soft as a Marie Biscuit dipped in hot chai.
And getting the biscuit to your mouth before it broke off and fell in the chai was the greatest challenge of your childhood.
33. Whenever a relative came back from a trip abroad, you invariably were gifted some of these:
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39. One hour of your school week was dedicated to social service or “Socially Useful Productive Work.”
And several hours of the school week were devoted to “book cricket.”
41. This cigarette-shaped candy, as problematic as it is in hindsight, made you feel cool as hell:
43. After school activities = snacks, tuitions, classes, homework, and then finally playing outside with colony friends.
45. When some well-meaning relative bought you a laser pointer, you used it to terrorize your neighbors for weeks.
47. You will never forget the tune of the “washing powder Nirma” song.
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And “aaya naya ujala, chaar bundhon vaala.”
51. Around sixth grade, everyone’s hands were constantly covered in ink from learning how to use these:
52. And in seventh grade, everyone got Slam Books and found out who their true friends were.
53. Managing to squeeze a full-sized cricket game into a gully of any width was everyone’s special skill.
54. Nobody seemed to ever buy these matchboxes, but there were always some lying around.
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57. Touching your distant relatives’ feet was an investment well worth the returns.
58. You felt like a professional acrobat every time you climbed into these top berths.
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59. And if you ever overexerted yourself with any physical activity, there was always a white powdery savior:
…proud to have had the most chaotic, most beautiful, and most memorable childhood of all.
H/t to Mani Karthik’s blogpost and this “Nineties Childhood Memories” Facebook page.
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