Laughing out loud!

That’s what we (me & my PG mates) did yesterday night, we laughed & laughed & laughed. I felt like I was back in the hostel where there would be such frequent bouts of laughter for no reason whatsoever.

All this happened, as there was a power cut because of the sudden heavy rains .We started reciting school prayers & nursery rhymes!!(I still remember one of my school prayers, which we all used to hum as if in sleep!) I donno what triggered this, but it was as if the memories of our childhoods were tickling us and we were all rolling with laughter. Then we strated sharing all those funny ideas & beliefs we had as children, when we were gullible enough to believe anything & everything.
- if u eat the seeds of a fruit a tree will sprout out from ur body.
- If u drink lots of water, pet main kichad ho jayega(stomach will become swampy)!!(: D)

Ideas that some parent must’ve invented to answer a child’s persistent questions & which somehow have seeped into more or less everyone’s childhood.

The talk then rambled; different names for different things in different languages; the different festivals we celebrate, with Shilpa telling the names of 3 festivals not knowing that they were one & the same! (And with Arpita mishearing a word to particular hilarious effect!);old hindi song;our dreams & nightmares; our ignorance & innocence till we got enlightened in the hostel(;))

With the common denominator being the laughter that accompanied everything.We were scared that our neighbours would come & shout at us!! Amidst all this I remembered a story (‘A temporary matter’) from ‘Intrepreter of maladies’ (one of my favorite books) its about a couple on brink of break up, who come to terms with their relationship during powercuts.

Powercuts are not as bad afterall; we should have more of them.