Instant Healer : Mahalaya

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To be able to hear Mahalaya on Radio and not on YouTube is such a disguised blessing !

Hoping for it every year, year after year!

Pretty Please? Maa!

Shubho Sharodiya 🌾

Wall of Comfort

Shared episodes with Smita, Imran, Sunil and mainly, with Bishakha, at Naveena ends; as B goes off for good!

Hence, presenting the wall which was curated with love, which gave familiar comfort, which now, would never be seen again! Even though I left this wall a year ago but still, it was right beside, to be visited;

Our major Covid shelter, our most spent warm evenings, our fate changer, this place!

Would long can you keep a paper boat you love?

Hey Samalo

Growing up in a communist backdrop, this song was played and sung every evening, on a dark grey tape recorder, after my father came back from work!

As a child I never quite paid heed to the lyrics, not that I was not a Lyrics Police, but this was way before words made sense.

When Coke Studio brought this back to me, it almost brought me a piece of my childhood of the red bricked beautiful house! And ofcourse a deep realisation that we were probably the last generation to have cherished such rich language jewels!

Also, secretly afraid of a only Hindi hugging child someday who would prefer "abbe yaar" over "dhushala"