It is difficult to imagine now, but as I was growing up, I had no TV, no computer and no internet. 'Playing a Game' meant getting out of the house and actually kicking a football around!
Come school vacations, we gravitated towards the Grandparents homes and those, were the most memorable times - be it swimming in the Ken river, or playing in the orchards, or racing across rooftops to catch the kite floating down after a valiantly fought battle in the skies. The fun, the laughter, the hurts and scratches, the fights and reconciliations! Summer nights on the terrace, falling asleep to wonderfully narrated bedtime stories by Dadi or Nani, as I visualised the drama playing out on the brilliant starry skies above.
There was this incomparable bond with the family. Everyone knew everyone. Everyone cared for everyone.
Unfortunately, that is fading and worse, our children, may not even know the family.
My Family Tree is my attempt to bring everyone together and equally, preserve the memories of our ancestors before they are lost forever.
Happiness.
Cutthroat, rat race seems to have made us very cynical. Musings is about Happiness! - things that make me smile, what I find weird or my latest idea on changing the world - my world.
