Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Nostalgia

Sometime back I saw some photographs that I didn't know I had. I decided to put some here along with a couple of my school photographs that I stumbled across on a friend's Facebook page.

This is a photograph from Std. V or VI. The best part of it was that I didn't know where I was. Jaya had to point me out to me.

Where am I?

This is a rare photograph of a school picnic because I don't think I have ever again worn such a psychedelic shirt. (Whenever I see this song from the Malayalam movie Classmates, I am reminded of this trip - not because of any incident in the movie but because this song involves a college bus trip. Incidentally, the movie contains one of my favorite Malayalam songs.)

Red Storm Rising

A time when this song fit:

With Jaya soon after our marriage was fixed


On tour in Bangalore with friends from Bajaj Auto Ltd.


Looking sophisticated in Lungi at IIMA



My room at IIMA


With my doom mates at IIMA


Sujit when he was about six months old


Sujit when he was 3 years old

(Sujit is now in a boarding school in Kodaikanal.)

In Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry, when  Gustad Noble walks around  Chor Bazar in Mumbai, it brings back a flood of memories from childhood and he muses, "How little it took to wake up so many sleeping memories." Indeed!

3 comments:

  1. Nice to the old fotos,of course with your comments !! I am yet to spot you in the school group photo...trying !

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  2. Spotted you immediately...next to Manoj Sahay....the Suresh who had a LUDO Board(laminated and real sleek) and hated to lose!!

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  3. Suresh, I am so glad you have treasured and included the picnic photo in your blog. That photo came out of my camera.......That was one of the very few picnics I have been with students.....

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