Growing up in India in the '90s was very exciting, and there is a whole generation who can vouch for it. There were a lot of activities and things they enjoyed but the current generation doesn't. While on one side, the country went through economic reforms, on the other hand, the '90s generation was possibly the last to have indulged in outdoor games before the virtual world took over.
Here is a list of 7 things from the 'good old 90's' that would send every 90's kid down the memory lane and make them nostalgic.
The boys here would agree, not having one of these was a shame, which is why everyone had wished (or went on hunger strikes) for having one of these lights. It was fun to tease the distant neighbors in dark nights, wasn’t it?
Almost every 90’s kids had one of these beauties stored inside their pencil boxes, because when it came to filling sheets in the exams, nothing worked better than the speed of these pens.
While it was a proud possession of those kids who came to school in their cars, it only served as a dream for most of us and rightly so, because they cost as much as the whole stationery list for 6 months.
Well, this was long before Saas Bahu Operas took over (read destroyed) the Indian televisions. While growing up in the 90’s, we had shows that had a defined story, unlike the never ending sagas of today. While we finished homework early to be able to watch Just Mohabbat and Dekh Bhai Dekh, it gave us a pleasure to see our mothers taking half an hour from their hectic schedules and watching Saans and Kora Kagaz.
Either we had one of our own or borrowed from the richer relatives, but a vacation without one of these black beauties was never even imagined. Moreover, who can forget the pain of not being able to click as many pictures as we wanted to because of the fear of running out of the film? So unlike the kids today, who have memory cards filled with selfies.
Well, long before we had cell phones with the brightest of LEDs, these were the source of light bright enough for us to do those much-required revisions the night before the exam. Some models came with cassette players and FM radios, an added advantage for the nights with no TVs.
Let’s admit one thing; none of us had learned English good enough to catch the meaning and accents of the American shows, which is why we always used to watch the dubbed versions. Coming to think of it, it was altogether a lot of fun, because in the English versions, Aladdin’s parrot Lago didn’t speak in a Tapori accent and Madam Mahalingam, the owner of Sea Duck in TaleSpin, didn’t have a South Indian name.
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