Sunday, May 24, 2020

Desi Family

India, a land of togetherness, unity, and Bollywood. Yes, Bollywood !!
Bollywood has a greater impact on us than politics. Every other person in India has a favorite Bollywood star who they surely want to meet someday. Every family has a favorite family movie that they enjoy watching together. 
Family movies like Hum saath saath hain, Rishtey, Taare zameen par.
Families don't just watch them, but they go to an imaginary world where they replace the stars with themselves and start picturizing. Of course when I talk about imaginary picturization, how can I forget our very own Baghban. This movie has surely been interesting until your parents started imagining the whole concept as there "might be" situation. Every time the children of Amitabh Bacchan and Hema Malini starts misbehaving with them, our parents start staring at us. That movie has certainly set a bar for our parents to tell us "what not to do".

Families have some really important members. 
A father, whose work is to ask where we spent the last month pocket money and giving serious looks to every easy-going situation.
A mother, whose clock runs 2 hours ahead of the exact time. She wakes us up by saying it's 9 am already when it's just 7 am.
A brother/sister, whose work is to blackmail us and make us do things as per their wishes.
Cousins, to keep an eye on each other so that next time their parents start comparing them with others, they can come up with a point.
And the other members of all the family, who are very well known about what can happen to you, more than yourself.
All are different from each one of us, but yes, not all flowers in the garden are alike. Different colors, the different fragrance is what makes the garden look beautiful.

No festival feels like a festival without family. Be it a birthday party or just a get-together, families make it worth memorable.

              "Other things may change, but a family will always stay with you"

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Indian Dads


A mustache. A heavy voice. And always serious looks. This is probably the starter pack of any Indian father. Of course it might differ for some, but mostly it is the same.

Indian fathers are always after our sleep schedule. No matter how early you wake up, you find your dad sitting on the chair with a newspaper already. They don't understand what Sunday is. 

You wake up late on Sunday, you get a half an hour speech on how much time you wasted sleeping and what are the demerits of sleeping so long and so on.. What my father does for waking me up is probably what early morning torture looks like. Switches off the fan, opens the window and the curtains are raised high, pulls away the blanket and start playing old Hindi songs and bhajans to the highest volume.

But yes they are cute too. They try their level best to cope up with the recent trends by joining social media like Facebook and Whatsapp just to make sure they stay connected with others as everyone.

But, teaching them how to use it is probably the funniest thing on earth. Recently I was teaching him Whatsapp messaging techniques. Trust me it was not easy at all.
He was about to send a message to his senior colleague, and that was urgent so he asked me to type on his behalf. I typed the entire thing and he checked. The point he made was why I used abbreviations and emoticons. He is a senior colleague. He might feel like I am laughing at him :)

No matter how much they compare you with anyone else in your family or his known people, when someone else points at you, he is definitely the one to protect you. I keep asking him for pocket money, he keeps denying. But I never find my purse empty any day. He might scold you for your mistakes, but he is the one to get things back to place and makes sure nobody knows what you did.


This lock down has surely made me realize to what extent your father can go just to make sure you are comfortable. My dad is a police officer and he has his duty the full day. He knows I might feel bored at home the whole day. He comes back every evening and does stuffs with me like painting and playing cards no matter how tired he is.



                                        "HE IS THE MAN OF OUR HOUSE, 
                                                   HE IS THE HERO OF OUR STORY"