Hello maa vacation is started and we will come on 4 we will reach by lunch ………..

"Nishu we will not go to nani's house, because you are not completing your homework now your cousins will enjoy there and we will stay here for whole of the vacation ………….No mummy i am doing it where is my bag?

On a languid summer afternoon!

An ode to those days when summer were spent in shade with imaginations and play!   

summer the time when we used to fake sleep to our parents and wait for them to sleep so that we may play when they are messed with their sleep……..We spend our summers peeping out the window and listening to the faint bell sound of the ice cream seller and all we cousins counting our coins in order to check our eligibility for buying that ice cream …

Recklessly getting beaten by cousins was the most important part of the summer vacation , cousins running around in order to beat us mercilessly but we never complained about it because we knew if today we will get beaten tomorrow we will get an ice cream when we will run short with our coins ..

Mangoes and the race to have more chapati was our favourite kind of game had no phones nor we needed them because we were all together and yes we had a great group …..

Hey ! do you remember wearing your mothers dupatta as saree and going to parties arranged by your brothers oh yes i do.I am happy that today we all are earning good are safe and at homes but not at our homes….. Home is not the place that is registered on your name but something where love,laughter and the aroma of the spices of nani's food runs……

Sitting on piles of quilts and being queen and king had its own taste i remember nani beating us more and loving less but deep down she loved us more we knew that that's the reason we laughed when she used to say now its enough!!!!!

Childhood and its memories are a great fun and a packet full of good old memories .While today i am crossing across the the memory lane i have a mixture of emotions and the thought that amazed me that how within 4 days of our vacations we were done with our holiday homework because we don't want to carry that pile of books to our play station our kingdom…..

ALL we could do is cherish these memories as we cant get back to the fun we are bounded by age that drags us towards adulthood…………