Tag: Growing up
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The world’s first Superhero!
America has been a dominant superpower for a long time. We all looked up to America as we were growing up. That dominance is now being eroded. But in one area America still is unchallenged and that is the world of comics. Comics were fun to read, racy, and thrilling, with simple plots and colorful.…
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Memories: Dad and his generation, Grit and Strength.
It has been a traumatic period as the old ones bid goodbye to us. My Dad left this world a couple of months ago. Two of our neighbours, his contemporaries followed him. Yesterday our teacher left us. They were the people around whom we grew up in the 60s, 70s and 80s. They followed different…
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Memories: Doorstep service, the vendors of yesteryear’s.
Service at the doorstep or home delivery is touted as a new revolution in retail. But that’s not true, we had a variety of services and goods right at our doorstep when growing up in the Mumbai of the 70s and 80s which is now lost. Not only did these people offer us service at…
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Memories: The Indian Coffee House.
One aspect of growing up in the 70s and 80s was the hadda, a meeting place, where many youngsters like me met. We had different places, in college, it was the steps of Bombay Gymkhana or the railings in front of the college where we boys sat and whiled away our time; when we were…
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Memories : 3 : Crushes and blushes
The first crush I had as a kid was Diana from the Phantom comics which were my favorite comics and the Phantom still is my favorite hero. I was highly disappointed to learn later that she was just an author’s creation. As we entered into our teens all of us boys became more interested in…
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Memories of growing up…looking into my soul..part 1
I grew up in what by today’s standards would be said to be difficult circumstances maybe even a deprived childhood but we did not know it then. 😃 This lack of knowledge of the modern thought process was bliss and we had a very happy childhood in reality. There was no mobile, no internet, and…