From roti to kapda...


Had the pleasure of watching the not- so recently released movie"Stanley ka dabba".....The movie took me down the memory lane and rekindled certain memories which had been lying dormant in a remote corner of my heart....I could catch glimpses of certain flashbacks which belonged to the time when the dabba or the tiffin as we call it had immense significance in my life.... The time when just like Stanley, the story's protagonist I too was a third or fourth grader and the very thought of a lunch break would excite each and every nerve of my body.....The fourth period used to be a test of my patience and the bell which marked its end would probably give me the two happiest minutes of my day..... And what followed was my run in the school playground with my tiffin and water bottle..."mere tiffin me paratha hai...aur tere me??? Sandwich ,pat came the reply....These voices used to echo in the background, But was I bothered??? All that I did was completely indulge in my meal and yeah!! share a few pieces of food bits with some gossip with my friends before the bell that signified the end of the lunch break and also of the fun which we had in those 20 minutes....Gosh!!! i wish those good old days were back again!!!Though we still have that" tiffin time" which is now called lunch break by me and several others keeping in mind our  "so called etiquette".....I hardly find it the same as it was some seven -eight years back....Caught in cobwebs of teenage crisis there is hardly time to give any significance what so ever to the tiffin boxes which sometimes lie even unopened...A thing which was considered a sin some years back...Anyways while this kiddy yet 'touching' flick was running on my television set another 'real" film was progressing on the streets of Delhi...Getting serious ,this was no movie but a picture of an evolving India where women have now realised that yes!!! we can change things,and for good....The SLUT-WALK which was conducted in a surprisingly dignified manner has shown the world that women today know to assert their independence and that too in an "out of the box" fashion..The slut-walk may have been declared indecent and inappropriate by a major section of the Indian society but then its high time that girls break the shackles of orthodoxy and conservatism and live life on their own terms coz  WHY SHOULD BOYS HAVE ALL THE FUN???

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