May be I cherish the 1990s because I was grown up in this decade. I cherished this below given things and eventually became a memory that make me smile every now and then.
1) 10 o'clock was very late in the night.
2) The tape recorder was one of the greatest inventions for you as a kid.
3) You would go to your neighbour's house to watch TV and not to forget you would use their phone for both incoming and outgoing.
4) You would collect the stamps of all the letters that usually your NRI cousins wrote.
5) Cool drinks and ice creams were occasional.
6) Summer holidays meant visiting relatives. Either you visited them or they visited you.
7) You were really cool if you could talk in English.
8) You loved Tin-Tin.
9) Money was hard to come by.
10) Owning a cycle was a dream for you as a kid.
11) You loved playing games in the real world. Never had to worry about home work much.
12) Your teachers really taught you.
13) You would watch following cartoons on Star Plus after school. Duck Tales, Talespin, Chip and Dale, Goof Troop, Gummi Bears, The Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse and friends, Small wonder, aladdin and on saturdays and sundays usually it was Spiderman. All of that in hindi.
14) You never really bothered about time much.
15) You really respected and feared your elders.
16) You loved playing those 16 bit video games.
17) You loved flying kites.
18) Sundays usually meant having a hair cut and washing your hair with "Clinic Plus" Shampoo. Then watching rangoli, Mowgli back to back on Doordarshan.
19) Your granny would put you to sleep by telling you stories that really had a moral in them.
20) Knowledge was always with the old and wise you would learn a lot from them each time they told you something.
21) You rarely heard the word "tension."
22) This was one of your proud possessions
23) You loved your pencil box.
24) You probably sipped a cool drink with a straw more than once.
25) If somebody had a mobile phone with them you know they were really rich.
26) You have fond memories of Doordarshan news and Doordarshan.
27) You have had an endless struggle to maintain an ink pen correctly but you loved it.
28) The only way to book a railway ticket was by standing in queue.
29) You loved watching this show in hindi on Nickelodeon. The legends of the hidden temple.
30) We all saw a little bit of ourselves in Dennis.
31) And at the dawn of the new millennium the biggest superstar of Indian cinema hosted a T.V show which would go on to win the TRPs and hearts of innumerable Indians across the world and yea the roads were empty once it was 9 pm.
32) You also wanted to represent your school in the Bournvita quiz contest.
33) Owning a Maruti 800 was a luxury and a dream for the upper middle class.
34) You know the value of 25 paise and what you could once buy with it like aamkut.
35) You sometimes substituted your urge for a cola with this:
36) Hamara Bajaj. The ride for the middle class then.
37) This show was very funny and you loved it.
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38) Just recollect how may times have you watched this song on tv and tried to dance like him.
39) The iPod of the 90s
40) The moment you realized magic is all about the coat. You probably watched this song many times on TV.
41) You really know what a joint family means.
42) This was the only meaning of a tablet back then.
43) You know that there was something called as a black and white tv once.
44) You definitely operated a tv which didn't have a remote.
45) Siblings spoke to each other when they were in the house not with their respective boy friend or girl friend or for that matter even friends.
46) Pictures were memories and were in a private album not in a public space. Each picture then would tell a story of its own.
47) You waited for a particular time everyday to watch your favorite song on music channels. Some times you got lucky and didn't have to wait.
48) How about playing a video game for 5 minutes with 1 rupee?
49) How about some radium in your pencil box? A wrist watch with a radium dial?
50) A wristwatch was cool if it had light in it and of course showing it off your friends in the dark made it even cooler.
51) This was the baap of all dance shows then and the hosts made you laugh like hell.
52) For many of us this was one of the best animated movies ever growing up.
54) How about some Rasna?
55) You have listened to plays or dramas on radio at least once.
56) How about watching a movie with your whole family including your granny in the theater carrying your own bottle of water? Was only possible back then.
57) How about searching for your hall ticket number in a newspaper anxiously? If you haven't experienced this you have at least heard stories about this.
58) Most of your general knowledge was either gathered by reading a book for general knowledge or English newspapers.
59) Time for "Pepsi" everyone
60) Most of us first interacted with a computer in our school's computer lab.
61) How about a family dinner where all the members of the family ate at the same time at the dining table talking to each other instead of looking at their mobile phones despite repeatedly saying that one shouldn't talk while eating?
62) How about watching Mahabharat on DD nationalwith the whole family on a sunday morning from 9:00 am – 10:00 am? You can't get its title track out of your head.
63) We loved our sunday mornings. That was the day when people switched off everything else and got glued to their tv sets. The channels would put their best content up on this day. We miss it a lot now. The whole culture of sunday mornings has disappeared somewhere in the fog of modern television.
64) You can't stop your lips from singing these tracks every time you see or hear them
65) You usually met a lot of strangers while travelling and actually had a conversation with them without being lost in your smartphone or laptop or whatever.
66) Border was one of your favorite movies then and you love this song.
67) You have heard about the "Kargil" war but you were too young to understand what was really happening. But at the end of it you were very proud that India won the war.
68) This song redefined patriotic songs and patriotism for an entire generation and we were among the first ones to hear it. It is so awesome that even today there is no republic day or independence day without it. Pure A.R. Rahman magic.
69) This is most likely the first ball pen you ever wrote with.
70) This was a movie for the families, of the families and by the families. You may have watched this movie with your family.
71) The whole nation got obsessed with this Hollywood movie like no other back then.
72) This movie was a cult and you might have had to watch it; courtesy your cousins or sisters or bothers.
73) This song was a rage and the whole nation fell in love with it. Yea "Made in India."
74) You know that there's clothing brand for men called "Kumar's".
75) All the jobs except the watchman's were mostly from 9 to 5. People on these jobs were people not resources.
76) How about getting your favorite song recorded on a cassette?
77) This daily soap was hard to ignore given the sheer popularity of this show amongst the women in every house and yeah it had a very catchy title track too. At 10 right after KBC all the women in the house gathered to watch this:
78) Almost every house had a beautiful guest which would come uninvited. Today its difficult to even spot them. "The Sparrow"
79) The girls loved their iconic BSA Lady bird. Evenings meant cycling for a lot of kids back then and girls enjoyed their ride on the ladybird. Though the cycle has undergone a lot of transformation it is still edged in our hearts.
Enjoy reading and be open to the things that world has to offer.
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