i still remember those days when we got our first television. black and white it was. i was in my 7th standard. got hooked on to cricket immediately. we won the benson and hedges world series cricket under gavaskar and shastri won the man of the series award. how the girls in the class drooled over him. some of us did not like him and we would have arguments and fights over who was the best player and who the most handsome!
yeah, those were the wild teen years when the sight of a handsome guy stirred romance in the heart. wonder how many crushes each one of us must have had as we grew up. TV characters from buniyaad, hum log, trishna. talking about trishna - this was the hindi serial based on jane austen's pride and prejudice. i had read the abridged version and coming to think of it that was my first romance in life. i was totally in love with darcy. totally and completely. so much so when trishna aired on TV - i considered it my solemn duty to fall in love with tarun dhanrajgir who played darcy. i must have watched it all the three times they showed it on TV.
school was interesting - not so much for the studies as for the early morning post episode discussions we had before classes started. each episode would be dissected, thoroughly analyzed and all future possibilities discussed. dilli waala and veeravali from buniyad were favorites till teh director and writer seperated them and we all cried at the tragedies life throws our way.
yeah, those were the days...of innocence and naievety and romance. i remember my history teacher telling us in our seventh standard - she had two children of her own - and maybe she thought she was doing us a big favor - whatever it was - this is what she said one day - dont ever read harold robbins and mills&boon. and guess what happened after that - we hunted down our first mills&boon - a classmate quietly hijacked it from her older siblings' collection and we had our first taste of m&bs...
In which we re-read "1984"
4 years ago
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mills & boon; pride and prejudice; well, i only read these things in college under your tutelage. not to mention Georgette Heyer!! i mean i had read P&P before but never with any sort of fondness.. till you gushed about it..
i still do like Heyer (sometimes), but my favourite is still Scarlett O'Hara!
& DONT tell me you did not fall in love with Sharrukh Khan in Fauji! My sis and I chose carefully - she got that brother - the one who said 'I say chaps' and I got SRK. :-)
hee hee ... oh yes! shahrukh khan in fauji and circus - he was cute.
there's a whole list of people i fell in love with - maybe i still do - george cloooney was my heart throb until yesterday - he's looking older so i am looking elsewhere.
i love georgette heyers - the spirited heroines and the fun supporting characters. one of my favorites is the grand sophy - if ever get a chance read it.
but i have outgrown the m&bs, kpbm. strange, i no longer read them anymore - no romances any more.
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