I have never had a shortage of friends since childhood.  Made more friends in life than one.  Made lots of friendships.  Friendships from school-college days achieved new heights.  Not only was I infamous for kite flying in the locality, there were no less discussions about hanging out with friends on the street.  Knowing how many times in this regard, there were tricks to get me fired from the locality.  But I did not agree.  The era of friendship continued like this.

But yes, I took special care in Yari-Dost that no one should become educated or intellectual-type friend.  Although there were many attempts on the part of capable lords, I was never the one to make friends with me.  What are they, their friends are friends with the educated or capable lords.  Either they will always talk about education or they will share the knowledge of the world.  The chapters of film, romance, kite flying, gulli-danda, awaragirdi are neither in his life nor in books.  I do not want to fight with such great souls, where there is no fun and mischief in friendship

Friends should be such with whom you can enjoy all the pleasures of life.  Those lessons of life that you could not learn by reading books, friends should learn by laughing and playing.  Various types of bullying are the first sign of friendship.  It has been a personal experience of mine that more friends than educated friends come in bad times (cool) type friends.  An educated friend starts taking load on the mind in every issue.  But the cool friend 'Brother, don't you worry.  By saying what will be seen, it gives a boost to the heart.

There is a lot of attention, how many such horrible scenes were made in school and college, but only the best friends saved.  Intellectual type friends kept watching the spectacle sitting far away.  Later, when they met, high and high advices were given.  Life has ever been better through policies.  It was thanks to God that I never took the advice of educated slaves in my mind and heart.  Otherwise I would not have been able to become a writer today.  My bad type friends have a big hand in becoming my writer.

Don't be surprised.  damn is true.  In childhood, with the help of the same friends I read all the spoiled literature.  Even when I didn't have any sense of humor, I had been blown away after reading four or five books of Khushwant Singh.  To say that it was a street-side vulgar or pulp type (in the eyes of capable people) literature, but even today, those writers speak more than progressive or democratic writers-literatures.  Get more royalties than them.  Are the best-sellers.  Even today, they are fiercely read.  Apna has believed from the beginning that to become a writer, it is very important to have badass and cool type friends.  Only those people are able to tell the lesson of life in such a way.  They are determined to throw out the fear from within.

But today's friends and friends are very different from our childhood.  Now friendships are more 'grounded' less 'digital'.  Friends are made on Facebook.  The fellow is seen with respect, whose number of friends-list has crossed four-five thousand.  The next one does not flourish saying that today he made ten-fifty friends on Facebook or sent friend requests to twenty-twenty-five.

The biggest advantage of digital friendship is that in the midst of time, these friends do not know in which well they keep hiding their mouths.  Here, those who come in the in-box and talk elaborately, they collide a lot, but together there is no one to drink tea in the nook of the locality or play gulli-danda in the street.  Months and years pass after seeing the faces of friends or hearing their voices face to face.  In digital times, friends and friendships are becoming formal.

Nevertheless, I am satisfied that my relatives are still the same friends with whom childhood and youth went through a variety of mischiefs and miscreants.  If we get a chance, we still go back to our old times.  Just the right mind goes 'Bahl'.