That's why I'm MisSintErrPriTi'd!!!!!!

Watch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAA74ND00dU “Yaad hai, ek din mere maiz pe baithe-baithe, cigarette ki dibiya par tumne, chhote se ek poudhe ka ek sketch banaya tha...!! Aakar dekho, us poudhe par phool aaya hai.” TRANSLATION -  Nowhere close to what Gulzar Sa'ab's own words and voice convey here, but  I've  tried to translate it -  “Do you remember one day while sitting at my desk, on a pack of cigarettes, a small shrub/plant you had sketched? Come and see.... a flower has bloomed on it!!!” ---- When I heard this in the writer's own voice, I felt like 'Life' itself was whispering this to me that a flower has bloomed, come and see it! And, I've been a little restless again since morning, eagerly... enthusiastically restless and searching.... for that flower!  I vaguely remember, I might've sketched a small shrub or a plant on a page of an old diary that i've lost, or a paper napkin while sitting at a co

Ok, such posts have been doing rounds on Facebook - “ BORN in 80's...” “100 things you didn’t know about me” etc. ….. also “born in the 70s”!! So, now that I find myself again on a certain threshold between something and something, and with a lot of time on hand, it led me wonder on similar lines what it was like for me (and my generation) to have grown up in the 70s!!!! I’m a child of the 70’s, raised in the 80’s and the 90’s can very well leave me alone! As a child of the 70’s, I know that ‘Grunge’ is here to stay, ‘Fashion’ is fickle and ‘Freedom’ is a myth. So let’s see…. Here goes…. You know you’re born in the 70s… When.. 1.         When you remember Ek Chidiya, Jungle jungle baat chali hai(Jungle Book), Molu The Penguin, Swami from Malgudi Days, Chandrakanta, Buniyaad, Nukkad, Hum Log on Doordarshan and the first time you ever had an eternal crush on Shahrukh Khan was when you saw him in Fauji and Circus!! 2.         When you’ve grown up watching Laurel and Hardy, C