It's a story of memories which I think everyone would have it
I grew up in Bandra, Mumbai better known as the Queen of the suburbs
During a time when everyone treated each other like Family,
Every female/male that came to your house was your aunty/uncle even if they were no relation
We went to summer club and played throw ball and carrom, hockey, soccer, basketball, etc.
We came straight home from school and changed and then out to play all evening .
If you had siblings you wore their hand me downs
We didn't eat fast food....
We sometimes ate bhel puri and dosas from street carts and got ice slushies or Gola from a cart down the road if ya mum was not looking.
Otherwise Home made kalakhatta/ rasna.
We played cricket or rounders if we ran out of space
Robbers or thieves
Football ,
Hide and Seek,
Kabaddi , Gili danda and knock door run
Kiti Kiti gotya,many would remember this game jumping over the backs
7 bricks
Hockey
There was no bottled water, we would share the same bottle after giving it a wipe with our mucky sleeves,
We had no kids tv channels In fact we had no .
Rode our hired bikes for hours yes we could hire bikes by the hour or half day or full day . There was no such thing as a mobile phone or any other electronic device or in fact even a telephone .
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. Your friends always had Your back . and if someone had a fight, that's what it was...a fist fight.
Kids didn't have guns or knives.
The street lights were always your curfew or until your mum shouted out the window.
School was mandatory, but we loved the monsoons when it flooded and we could not go to school and spent hours playing in the rain making paper boats to sail them through the gutters ✏ or catch guppies.
We watched our mouths around our eldersbecause we knew we'd get a crack, belt or some shoe , slipper ... everybody listened to English songs on the the same radio station, so walking from home to school, you’d hear the same song playing in most homes as you walked along . Saturday Date was popular with late nights drinking sitting over someone’s wall,sleepover at friends place n make prank calls overnight and pick of the Pops on Wednesday nights. , despite us moving to different parts of the globe, thanks to social media and face book ,we still keep in touch with childhood friends and as a community we share good and bad news and it’s amazing that our Bandra community can still support each other . If you did something wrong your parents knew about it before you got home . I was lucky to grow up in a beautiful community .
Re-post if you're proud that you came from a close knit community and you will never forget where you came from! .
During a time when everyone treated each other like Family,
Every female/male that came to your house was your aunty/uncle even if they were no relation
We went to summer club and played throw ball and carrom, hockey, soccer, basketball, etc.
We came straight home from school and changed and then out to play all evening .
If you had siblings you wore their hand me downs
We didn't eat fast food....
We sometimes ate bhel puri and dosas from street carts and got ice slushies or Gola from a cart down the road if ya mum was not looking.
Otherwise Home made kalakhatta/ rasna.
We played cricket or rounders if we ran out of space
Robbers or thieves
Football ,
Hide and Seek,
Kabaddi , Gili danda and knock door run
Kiti Kiti gotya,many would remember this game jumping over the backs
7 bricks
Hockey
There was no bottled water, we would share the same bottle after giving it a wipe with our mucky sleeves,
We had no kids tv channels In fact we had no .
Rode our hired bikes for hours yes we could hire bikes by the hour or half day or full day . There was no such thing as a mobile phone or any other electronic device or in fact even a telephone .
We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHING. Your friends always had Your back . and if someone had a fight, that's what it was...a fist fight.
Kids didn't have guns or knives.
The street lights were always your curfew or until your mum shouted out the window.
School was mandatory, but we loved the monsoons when it flooded and we could not go to school and spent hours playing in the rain making paper boats to sail them through the gutters ✏ or catch guppies.
We watched our mouths around our eldersbecause we knew we'd get a crack, belt or some shoe , slipper ... everybody listened to English songs on the the same radio station, so walking from home to school, you’d hear the same song playing in most homes as you walked along . Saturday Date was popular with late nights drinking sitting over someone’s wall,sleepover at friends place n make prank calls overnight and pick of the Pops on Wednesday nights. , despite us moving to different parts of the globe, thanks to social media and face book ,we still keep in touch with childhood friends and as a community we share good and bad news and it’s amazing that our Bandra community can still support each other . If you did something wrong your parents knew about it before you got home . I was lucky to grow up in a beautiful community .
Re-post if you're proud that you came from a close knit community and you will never forget where you came from! .
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