As a kid and when you are growing up there are things that you look forward to, because these were not available throughout the year. They were either seasonal or available only on occasions or available only at certain places.
The first that comes to the mind are crackers, Oh how we used to wait all the year for Diwali to arrive, the wait for dad to come home with a list where in you get to select the crackers you want for that Diwali, then wait for the crackers to actually arrive, then lay them out in the sun the day before Diwali in the hope that we will get an extra bang out of them.
There are others that we used to wait for Kites (not the Hrithik Roshan Movie), Holi, Haleem, Mangoes, Watermelons, lassi (Not the regular one).
Why were these special?
These were special because its not everyday and everywhere that you get them and it was fun to wait for them before the jerks trying to make more bucks out of them made them available everywhere all through the year. Now there is no wait, you want it you get. No fun in that, nothing "special" about that. Maybe that is the reason I keep losing interest in these things.
Crackers are used almost everyday and every damn occasion, even the colours used during Holi are used every where, mangoes and watermelon are available all through the year and now its haleem that is suffering the same state.
The one very special item that has been beaten to death was "Hyderabadi Biryani". It is not prepared anywhere not in Hyderabad, not in India, nowhere, the thing they prepare these days is briyani but not Hyderabadi biryani. How do I know? i know because I have eaten it. In my college days we used to sneak out of the house at midnight and go to "Parwaaz" or "Azeezia" or "Astoria", occasional "paradise" or "bawarchi" and feast on this special dish.
Again thanks to all those greedy morons who can't think beyond making more money, the very specialty of the dish is ruined and turned into a regular everyday dish.
Thank you all for taking the fun and special moments out of my life and turning them into regular stuff.
The first that comes to the mind are crackers, Oh how we used to wait all the year for Diwali to arrive, the wait for dad to come home with a list where in you get to select the crackers you want for that Diwali, then wait for the crackers to actually arrive, then lay them out in the sun the day before Diwali in the hope that we will get an extra bang out of them.
There are others that we used to wait for Kites (not the Hrithik Roshan Movie), Holi, Haleem, Mangoes, Watermelons, lassi (Not the regular one).
Why were these special?
These were special because its not everyday and everywhere that you get them and it was fun to wait for them before the jerks trying to make more bucks out of them made them available everywhere all through the year. Now there is no wait, you want it you get. No fun in that, nothing "special" about that. Maybe that is the reason I keep losing interest in these things.
Crackers are used almost everyday and every damn occasion, even the colours used during Holi are used every where, mangoes and watermelon are available all through the year and now its haleem that is suffering the same state.
The one very special item that has been beaten to death was "Hyderabadi Biryani". It is not prepared anywhere not in Hyderabad, not in India, nowhere, the thing they prepare these days is briyani but not Hyderabadi biryani. How do I know? i know because I have eaten it. In my college days we used to sneak out of the house at midnight and go to "Parwaaz" or "Azeezia" or "Astoria", occasional "paradise" or "bawarchi" and feast on this special dish.
Again thanks to all those greedy morons who can't think beyond making more money, the very specialty of the dish is ruined and turned into a regular everyday dish.
Thank you all for taking the fun and special moments out of my life and turning them into regular stuff.
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