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Superb stuff for us who grew up during the 70-90s in middle class India , 

here are some things that we can identify with……but our children cannot....

 1. Though you may not publicly own to this, at the age of 12-17 years,

 you were very proud of your first "Bellbottom" or your first "Maxi" .
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 2. Phantom & Mandrake were your only true heroes.

The brainy ones read "Competition Success Review".
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 3. Your "Camlin" geometry box & Natraj/Flora pencil were

 your prized possessions.
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 4. The only "Holidays" you took were to go to your grandparents' or your cousins' houses.
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> 5. Ice-cream meant only - either an orange stick, a vanilla stick – 

or a Choco Bar if you were better off than most.
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 6. You gave your neighbour's phone number to others with a 'PP' written

against it because you had booked yours only 7 years ago and

 were still waiting for your number to come.
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 7. Your parents were proud owners of HMT watches.

 You "earned" yours after SSC exams.
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 8. You have been to "Jumbo Circus"; have held your breath while the

 pretty young thing in the glittery skirt did acrobatics, quite enjoyed the elephants

 hitting football, the motorcyclist vrooming in the "Maut - ka - Gola" and it was

 politically okay to laugh your guts out at dwarfs hitting each others bottoms!
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 9.. You have at least once heard "Hawa Mahal" and 

"Binaca Geetmala" on the radio.
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 10. If you had a TV, it was normal to expect the neighbourhood to gather around

 to watch the Chitrahaar or the Sunday movie. If you didn't have a TV, you just 

went to a house that did. It mattered little if you knew the owners or not.
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 11. Sometimes the owners of these TVs got very creative and got a bi or

 even a tri-coloured anti-glare screen which they attached with two 

side clips onto their Weston TVs. That confused the hell out of you!
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 12. Black & White TVs weren't so bad after all 

because cricket was played in whites.
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 13. You thought your Dad rocked because you got your own (the family's; not your own own!)

 colour TV when the Asian Games started. Everyone else got the same idea as

 well and ever since, no one came over to your house and

 you didn't go to anyone else's to watch TV.
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 14. You dreaded the death of any political leader because of the mourning they

 would announce on the TV. After all how much " Shashtriya Sangeet " can a 

kid take? Salma Sultana also didn't smile during the mourning.
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 15. You knew that " Indira Gandhi " was somebody really powerful and

 terribly important. And that's all you needed to know.
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 16. The only "Gadgets" in the house were the TV,

 the Fridge and possibly a mixer.
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 17. Movies meant Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan.

Before the start of the movie you always had to watch the obligatory "Newsreel".
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 18. You thought you were so rocking because you knew

 almost all the songs of Abba and Boney M.
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 19. Your hormones went crazy when you heard 

" Aap Jaisa Koi Meri Zindagi Mein Aaye " by Nazia Hassan .
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 20. Photograph taking was a big thing. 

You were lucky if your family owned a camera. A reel of 36 exposures was

 valuable hence it justified the half hour preparation & "setting" & the

 "posing" for each picture. Therefore, you have at least one family picture 

where everyone is holding their breath and standing in attention!
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 🍻Cheers to gud old friends & times.💐

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