A Nostalgic Day

November 14 is a day that brings a lot of nostalgic memories to my mind…………….”Children’s Day” .It takes me back to my school and college days.

Back at school it was a day we would start looking forward to probably from the beginning of the academic year. It was a day when we would get freedom from the boring routine of wearing a uniform to school, instead go wearing (ok ………flaunting) a colorful dress. Most of the times for me it would be a dress that mom would have stitched…so the reason to flaunt it was even more :D

Another reason to look forward to this day was to see how our dear old Teachers tried to keep us entertained throughout the day with different cultural program’s planned and executed by them. Adding a dash of seasoning to it was the games organized for us and the most anticipated event was a kind of trekking to the tiny forest kind of plantations used by the defense personel behind our school…………………..oh! those were some awesome days (sigh!!!!!)

College days were not as enjoyable as the school days. ……………But are still memorable ones. The day was celebrated with an ethnic name given to it “Gurukul”. Where the college was transformed into an ancient Gurukul kind of atmosphere .The common meeting area would be taken over by some huts made of hay and bamboo sticks. The college looked so adorable to look at. This was further highlighted with many music and dance programs planned and performed by our lecturer’s .I still remember one lecturer singing the famous song from the movie “Sharmili” which was originally sung by the legendry Kishore Kumar “Khilte hain gul yahan” But when the said lecturer sung it ,it turned out to be something like this “Khilte hain gulu yahan, milthe hain dilu yahan” We friend's still laugh out aloud at the very thought of it…………………….

Now I have started looking forward to this day again as I have a little angel in my life. I know she would have some similar experiences in the years to come. Just one hope that she would be able to know the importance of the day is just not limited to the fun she will have in school/college but to remember the great person “Jawaharlal Nehru “ who loved children beyond words can express and whose birthday is celebrated as “Children’s Day”.

Wake up the child in you atleast this day of the year "Happy Children's Day"