Gudi Padwa

Gudi Padwa celebrations meant spending hours in the balcony, which made it one of our most favorite festivals. Ours as in - favorite amongst us youngsters, back in the late 80s/90s. My girlfriends would gather at my place, pretending to admire the Gudi, and what a stellar performance each one of us gave. We thought we’d trick my mom but then mom toh mom hoti hai- she knew we’d linger around for hours in the balcony just to get a glimpse of the most desirable bachelors who’d just moved in the opposite building. 

These were students from Bharati Vidyapeeth College of engineering, Pune. They must’ve been around in our society for not more than a couple years, I believe. Those couple of years get filed under our most cherished memories. A few years later when me and my friends went out for the movies- we couldn’t stop grinning at each other when we saw the scene “Rahul Juice” from KKHH 🎥 We laughed heartily even after the movie got over, fondly remembering the desirable bachelors🍿 

You know, growing up, not many fell into the so called conventionally beautiful looking to the eyes category. The grooming happened much later. For the longest time many knew how it felt being in Anjali’s shoes. But also, nobody ever had any qualms about not being Tina. They had that confidence in them and knew eventually, one day every single caterpillar would turn into a beautiful butterfly. The metamorphosis is meant to happen ❤️

On that lovely note - here’s wishing everyone a superb new year - gudi padwyachya hardhik shubheccha 🌺 Happy Ugadi 🌺 and everything else that was celebrated 🌺 It’s a beautiful life -Do what makes you happy 💗

P.S. there’s so so so much more to these stories - i promise I’ll get to posting it here, eventually 🤞
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