Tag: nostalgia
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chinese checkers.
board games require the tactic of soldiers,exactness of a mathematician, imagination of an artist, inspiration of a poet, calm of a philosopher and greatest intelligence Chinese Checkers A board game I will never get tired off. Chinese checkers !!Though for a while I was hooked on to the word-pathways on face book. Chinese checkers still…
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A ghost from the past
An encounter of the unexpected kind. School girl 22nd November 2011, A friend of mine invited me to be the examiner for her students who were appearing the dance exams. The kids were done and over with, when the women came in. The face looked familiar, her name Bhagawati Bhat it rang a bell somewhere.…
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fragrance of friendship
Friends are people who stick by you thick or thin, sick or sin. In the era of social networking befriending has given way to friending and unfriending, the friend that I regret not keeping in touch, sounds strange, in any case she is not recognizable on facebook. She befriended me when I was the new…
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Where is my Mama
a Journey to Bombay. Southland Coastal Road I must have been eight years old, it was our first long bus ride all of 24hours, from Udupi to Bombay. My mother, brother, our neighbor Mrs. Kiriti and her two daughters Jayanthi and Jayashree. it was six of us. Our mother of course had cooked and carried…
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Toy Fads From My Childhood Days
Toys It is really interesting there were no must have toys. Of course the blond walkie-talkie doll that my father sent from England was treasure. But we played with available stuff. When our mothers went to buy steel utensils, the shop owner at times gave us miniature ones. broken crockery, scraps of dress materials all…
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the speaker
every speaker has three speechs on hand one that he prepared, the one he delivered and one that he wished he had delivered.