Nostalgia Of Childhood Days

"Margazhi" is the most important of all the Tamil months. It is celebrated from mid December to mid January. It is also called "Dhanur masam"(month).Lord Krishna is worshipped  specifically during this month. Several poojas and bhajans will be sung in praise of him. In fact Lord Krishna has himself said in Bhagavath Gita that he is "Margazhi" among all the months. Though several people follow our customs even today, the significance and the charm of this month is incomparable to how it was earlier. I have shared my memories of how margazhi was  celebrated during my childhood days in the 90s. I was brought up in the agraharam of Mylapore Sri Vendata Desikar temple(near chitrakulam).We were a huge gang of friends. To me, marghazhi reminds me of these memories,  My mother used to put a grand kolam early morning around 5am or 5.15am (I wouldn't call it a rangoli as she didn't have time to colour it apart from festival days as she has to rush to office

If you were 80s or 90s born you can easily relate to this blog. We are currently in the lockdown period and as old Doordarshan serials are telecasted I feel nostalgic thinking about my childhood days. Guess it was 1987 , I was a toddler then when Ramayana was first telecasted in the television. I vaguely remember how my paternal grandparents, parents, uncle and aunties(we were one big joint family) would eagerly wait for it to be telecasted every weekend. We all used to assemble in the living room of our rented house and once we see "Ramayan" text displayed in our black and white television there would be pin drop silence. I used to sit on any of the elder's lap mostly it was my grandpa and watch the programme. It was from that time that I slowly got to know about one of the greatest epic. Then it was "Mahabharatha" that was telecasted. We used to watch in awe how those scenes were created especially the war scenes. I still remember the story of Mahabha

Nostalgia - From School to office!! The clock is going to tick five on this friday evening, My office timing will be getting over in another hour. I gave a glance to people around me - Some of them are standing and having casual discussion, Some are enjoying their evening coffee, While most of them are hooked to their computers breaking their head to complete their work to leave on time. It made me think about my childhood days, When five in the evening was meant for playing with friends Where we played hide and seek, Kho-kho, carrom and many more games Then started off with home work, studying – Pascal’s law in Physics, Chemical Equations in Chemistry, Pythogoras theorem in Mathematics, Nature of Plants in Botany, Anatomy of Animals in Zoology, And so on…. It was college time as days passed by ; “Exams” changed to “semesters”, Carrying “loads of books” changed to “just one notebook”, The term “lessons” changed to “units” For which w