14 Memories From Your Bong Childhood That Will Make You Nostalgic

Being a non-resident Bong has, if anything, increased my yearning for home and everything from my childhood up a notch. You won’t believe if I tell you this, but sulking while thinking about how I won’t be able to go to school anymore, or taste ‘jhalmuri’ flavoured with the innocence of childhood, or play ‘kumeer-danga’ with the friends from my colony is a favourite pass-time of mine.

If you share any of my feelings, or have your own about your Bengali childhood, these 14 things will totally take you down that cricket chirping memory lane.

1. When our learning lessons began with “haate khori”

 

And became the proud owner of either of these two, or both

 

2. And we waited eagerly for the newspaper man to bring our Shuktara, or Anandamela

 

3. Those early morning music lessons we weren’t much enthusiastic about

 

4. When autumn meant a new wardrobe and some competition on who gets the most number of ‘pujor jama’

 

5. And surviving school was kind of impossible without ‘kathi’ ice-cream and phoochka

 

6. Though moms don’t know it, we really liked the taste of Horlicks

 

7. Load-shedding in the evening meant inevitable study sessions with kerosene lanterns

Often with some delicious mashla muri!

 

8. And winter was incomplete without ‘lep’ and Saraswati puja

 

9. Winter also meant our yearly dose of circus and the not so welcome monkey cap

 

10. Then again summer meant vacation and inevitably ‘kancha aam’

 

11. Every Mahalaya started with Birendra Krishna Vadra’s voice and that special early morning TV show

 

12. That wood board on a chair in the barber’s shop – our childhood ‘Game of Thrones’

 

13. And afternoons were simply incomplete without some game of ghuri, lattoo, and kitkit

 

14. And no bong childhood could do without some ‘taal michhri‘

 

*sniff sniff* I think I have something in my eyes..

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