Appendix.

I used to have great pain in my stomach once in a while since my early childhood but my parents used to think that i might have eaten something which i am not able to digest and my mother used to give me massage with oil and after a while i used to get relief from pain but one day the pain got unbearable,it was like somebody is hurting you with knife and seeing my discomfort my father took me to nearby clinic.After seeing my condition doctor immediately realised that i have appendix ( extra growth like tumour )which needs operation at the earliest...

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PETS.

I will not do justice to my childhood memoires if i fail to mention the different type of pets who were part of our childhood.In our Grandfather village whenever we used to go there which was mostly in summer vacations,then we used to play with our dog whose name was Moti and he used to lord over other dogs of that area and we were really proud of him.Apart from dog we had cows,bullocks ( who used to till our fields ) & buffaloes.In the early morning when we used to wake up,we used to find most of the farmers going to fields with their bullocks...

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New Beginning.

As i have told you in my last blog that we came to delhi from bhopal on my father getting transferred. We have to start our lives all over again and slowly we started making new friends but there was no big ground and so we have to play in a park which was not very big.But it was at this time (1976 ) Television came to our lives.Our immediate neighbour had a TV in his house and from our drawing room it was visible and we brothers were quite excited to see the TV from our window specially the cricket.And one day our father to our utter surprise...

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Catastrophe.

While we were enjoying our stay in bhopal,one day our father broke the news that he has been transferred to delhi.This news came as a catastrophe to us since for nearly 4 years bhopal had became our home and it was unimaginable to think getting separated from friends and from a community which was like an extended family.There was gloom all over since not only it was a bad news for us but it was for everyone.Our house maid Sapru wept like a child,even our Land-lord was sad since we have built a beautiful Garden which was full of flowers but we...

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Holi in bhopal.

Holi is one of the main festival of India and it is a festival of colours.This used to be the busiest time for us because preparation of this festival used to get started month in advance.One day before the actual holi of colours is celebrated there is a tradition of lighting bonfire of  wood which signifies victory of good over evil and we used to collect wood in advance from where ever we could collect it from. We used to steal bamboo and shuttering wood from nearby construction sites.It used to be so much fun & exciting experience since...

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GANESH PUJA.

Ganesh puja ( A ten day festival of Hindu Lord Ganesha ) is the biggest festival in Maharashtra & Madhya Pradesh ( States of India ). We in bhopal used to start the preparation for this festival months in advance.We used to collect money from each and every household in the colony for the festival.As i told you in my earlier blogs that i was quite a mischievous person and a sort of rebel in my childhood and till today i continue to be so.Once one of the family refused to give money for the festival and i got very angry about it and coming out...

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RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.

Taking a break from my regular blogs today i am writing on a subject of Religious Intolerance for Indiblog's subject of Knowledge is Great.Religious intolerance is the cause of unrest,deaths of thousands,political upheaval,jehad and terrorist attacks all over the world .In fact it is the root cause of 9/11 & 26/11 terror strikes.This intolerance is prevalent in  all the religion of the world whether it is Catholic v/s Protestant in Christianity,Sunni v/s Shias in muslim religion,Digambar v/s Shwetamber in jainism, and in Hindu religion...

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SANCHI & BHOJPUR.

Our school took us for picnic trip to Sanchi ( A place of religious importance for Buddhists ) which is few hours drive from bhopal.There was round shaped structures  which are called stupas and structure like gate with some sorts of scriptures engraved on it.The whole journey was full of excitement and after reaching the place we played various games but the best part was when we all sat together and opened our tiffin boxes and shared food with each other because everybody got to eat so many delicacies at the same time.I till today remember...

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FATHER'S V/S SON'S

Continuing from my earlier blog about cricket now i want to tell you that one day one of  our friend Kartik proposed that we should fix a match between father's and son's.All of us welcomed his idea but very few of us were optimistic that father's will agree for this sort of match.But he said that he will talk to his father who was ex-first class cricketer.His father not only agreed for the match but also pushed his friends who were good cricketers to play and slowly some of other friends father's agreed and formed their team.It was decided...

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Cricket and Bhopal.

Although Hockey is the National Game of India but actually for general public Cricket is truly the national game in fact it is considered a religion now-days in India.So although we played all sorts of game but cricket was like a passion for all of us.There was a big ground in our colony and we prepared the pitch by digging the ground 22 square yards as prescribed by international law of cricket and we dug it deep approx. 2 foot. After that we put small pebbles of brick in the pitch area,after that one layer of badarpur ( Mixture of coarse sand...

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Kite Flying

Kite flying season used to be quite exciting and very hectic for us.Preparation for it used to start days in advance because first we used to buy white plain thread  for kite flying and then we used to boil one product called Sares and used to mix it with different colours and then glass pieces which we used to grind like fine powder and then boil the mix in high temperature and after it cooling down we used to apply on the plain thread by using cloth and tieing the plain thread from one pole to another pole in both side of the ground.By applying...

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JAI SANTOSHI MAA

In 1975 there was a hindi film released by the name of jai santoshi maa,who is a hindu Goddess and the film became a cult film and became super hit.People used to go to theatres without wearing shoes and whenever the goddess  used to appear on the screen public used to throw coins and flowers on the screen.The moral of the story was that if you fast for 16 Fridays continuously without eating any food or fruit containing citric acid such as lemon or oranges then the goddess will fulfil all your wishes and it spread like wild fire.Most women...

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Trekking in the hill.

After spending few days in our village we came back to bhopal but our vacation was still on since its 2 month holiday in summers.In bhopal the whether used to be nice even in summers also so we were able to spend time outdoors.As i told you in my earlier blog that we had hills in backside of our house and one day we all friends decided to explore the hills and decided to go there.We were going to an unknown territory but we were all very excited.After walking for half an hour we entered the hills and started going upwards and on the way we found...

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Mango Orchards.

Continuing from my last blog where i told you about reaching our village during summer vacation and taking bath in the pond and after taking breakfast we all used to go to our own mango orchards which was just 100 mts. in front of our house and most of the day was spent there relishing different varieties of mangos,Jamuns from the trees or playing cards etc.In the mango orchard villagers used to built temporary small hut made of bamboo and roof was made of rice husk and sitting space was around 2 to 3 feet hight because there were lot of snakes...

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