Whole New Generation

 
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I feel pity when I look upon the kids born after the year 2000. They would only see the hundreds of channels on TV, Video Games, Xbox, Pokemon, GI Joe, shopping malls and the game zones there, play angry birds on an iPad, taunting new battery operated toys to their friends, celebrating birthdays with cakes in the shapes of spiderman/batman/probably more new superheros take birth for this, AC School classrooms, buses, houses with inverters, tons of books and lots of homework.

Then they grow up and become tech savvy to have the latest bike, gizmos like cell phone, online social networking, watch movies with cheap comedy and high voltage action films where the hero kicks the bad person who then like a ball hits the walls and comes back to take one more beating.

I was born in 1988, which I feel that the kids of this time have seen everything during the transformation. Let me list out what I have been through:
1. Listening to 1 hour movies on radio on a red colored radio cum tape recorder.
2. Spending Dussera/winter/summer holidays at grandparents’ place where there was only Doordarshan channel on it.
3. Watching Mowgli for its title song, chitralahari for the latest Telugu movie songs, Teleschool at 10:30 AM and then end up in disappointment to watch the screen with the message “All links are now linked to Delhi”
4. Waiting desperately for the only Telugu movie of the week on every Sunday at 4:00 PM.
5. Alif Laila, Legendary RamanandSagar’s Ramayan and Mahabharatha, Shaktimaan – the Indian Super Hero, Anandobrahma, Maryada Ramanna.
6. The happiness when your teacher signs in your notes saying “Excellent” (We used to compete with our classmates for the most number of Goods & Excellents)
7. Craving for a pepsi – not the regular one. It used to come in plastic covers like a tube with flavored colors.
8. The joyful cry when the power goes out and all the children in apartments play till the power is up (Now-a-days having inverter at home has become a mandatory thing)
9. Cricket game in text books, WWF card games.
10. Clean comedy movies from Jandhyala.
11. The relation between a whitener and typewriter, tape cassette and pencil.

The GenNext today will never know:
1. Color TV with a cable connection is a rarity.
2. Mopeds like TVS Champ, TVS 50 (we had red colored one) was the first luxury transport.
3. The revolution brought in by Bajaj Chetak..! Only a few privileged had one – HAMARA BAJAJ..!
4. Mil Sur Mera Tumhara song on Doordarshan depicting our Unity in Diversity and the typical Doordarshan conclusion music after that.
5. The taste of Chalkpiece soaking in mouth .. Ummmmmm..!
6. Swami and friends and other stories from Malgudi Days, Ruskin Bond short stories (to name a few)
7. Gramaphone.. My grandpa had it with a huge collection of records..
8. Playing hourly video games like Dave, Mario etc by paying rent at gaming zones.

I believe some of them are already extinct. 

Poor new generation..

P.S: This is written in view of a middle and upper middle class family environment.