I read a post about brand nostalgia here and it brought back a whole lot of memories.
I remember the Nirma one..."Nirma, Nirma, washing powder Nirma, thodisi powder aur jhaag dher sara...Hema, Rekha, Jaya aur Sushama, sabki pasand Nirma!
I don't remember the brand of washing powder, but I remember the advertisement as if I saw it yesterday. A father and son are going on a scooter. There is a hoarding of a cute girls twirling a new frock. As they are looking at the hoarding, the girl suddenly comes alive and sings the jingle..."Suno suno ay babuji, kapde kyon hai mailey dhuley ? Mailey ? Par maine toh laundry mein dhulwaye they !"
Once while going to Maths class on our bicycles, my friend didn't even realise when she started singing loudly "Jara si saawdhani, zindagi bhar aasani.." :)). The tune was so catchy ! We were shocked and then had a good laugh.
I remember the Vadilal ice-cream one...
"You win some, you lose some, it's part of the game, its Vadilal,
You run, you fall, you can't win 'em all, its Vadilal..."
And the VIP suitcases one...
"This is the moment, this is the magic,
This is the joy of travelling on,
There's a mystery in every mile,
As you live it up, VIP style..."
I had a great time remembering all these and more :)
Nostalgia is suer a funny thing...at once makes you feel happy for the good things you have experienced and sad since they are now a thing of the past...
The Japan earthquake and tsunami managed to bring tears to my eyes. It is terrible to see the amount of damage …to humans, to property, to the landscape…to lives…and it will take ages to restore some sense of normalcy. Life as they knew it before this disaster is lost forever for all the affected people…those who are still alive. :( Call me weird or naïve or stupid or un-informed or anything, but I really believe that we humans have managed to bring things to such a level where Nature has to act to restore the balance. How else does one explain the rise in the frequency of natural disasters and the increased intensity of the damage they cause each time they occur ? The uncontrolled population increase over the centuries itself has been responsible in robbing the Earth of its natural resources. Add to it the greed of humans…we can’t take just as much as we need…we have to take more and hoard. We don’t think of preservation, of regeneration or of repaying what was taken. We cross the ...
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