Change is here

Everyone and their uncle knows about the '60. Sex, drugs, rock 'n roll, rebellion ...
So I don't want to go there.

The '70s have also been flogged to death. More sex, more drugs .... you get the picture.
OK. I am trivializing those epochal decades. But there's always Vir Sanghvi to elaborate on that.

The '90s have their share of glories. Liberalization, internet, mass media ... I can relate to that era but I would rather not. It's not something I look back on fondly.

What I really look back on fondly is period of transition. The period that covered the late '80s and early '90s.

The era just before and just after India moved from a closed economy to an open one; the period where DD and AIR still ruled; the days when Street Hawk was a rage; the period when Rahul Roy was actually called a hero.

Ever heard of a Kannada hero called Ravichandran? If not, just see this
I mean ... if ever there was a quality ratio comparing video to audio, this one would probably be the lowest. As in, it's probably the most melodious song with the least watchable video.

And we were the privileged generation growing up to this. Oh, and there's a book waiting to be written about Rahul Roy and his shenanigans. There was actually a song (another pretty melodious song) where he says the most outrageous line in Bollywood history: "Yaadon ke sab jugnu jungle mein rehte hain".

Here's the translation: All the fireflies of our memories live in jungle.
Touche.

Await more such gems in the days to come.

Seriously, those were the days.