Midnight's children
I had had a very peaceful childhood and teenage...sans computers...sans gaming consoles...sans the internet...sans the mobile phones...and sans the idiot box. The very first tv was wisely bought after entering college, not because of unavailability ( television was first introduced in delhi in 1959, exactly three years after the first computer was installed in India ie at the Indian statistical institute in kolkata in 1956 for solving complex mathematical models to predict weather, and tv sets were available in kolkata since 1975 ) or unaffordability, but due to the reason that it was an all time prime distractor in the pre-internet era. I received my first wristwatch not before sixteen.I guess we will not be able to offer our descendants such a wonderful life, so intrinsic, and sans materialism - in an era when we are cleverly and constantly manipulated by the hungry multinationals to upgrade to 4k and wot not. And i guess it is perfectly all right to be a tad nostalgic when your birthday is approaching.
How was yours? Show me a glimpse of your childhood.
( I share my birthday with anthony hopkins! )
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same to you. and you can forget my b'day but not my gifts.
but today's not my birthday. read the last sentence carefully.
TV came into vogue about 1950 in America (I think). We didn't get one for a long time. I would say about 1956 or thereabouts.
Our entertainment was the radio. Great plays would be broadcast like detective, cowboy and that kin of action stuff. And of course music as well.
Rock and roll came out in 1954 with Bill Haley and the comets singing this hit! It was called Rock Around the Clock!!!
Our electronic gadgets called transistor radios! They were expensive!! $10.00 hee hee!!
Much much more but too lengthy!
Writing with ink pens...wow! wait! first was slate board..
riding bicycle...
surfing
life was good then..
ball point pens were banned ( not allowed before seventeen ) in our school as they degrade handwriting.
i too wrote ( alphabet learning ) with slate. is this practice obsolete now?!
Merry Christmas !!!
Have a great Christmas AJ,
I dont think I can make your Birthday bash. Im having dinner with
Sir Anto at the Palace