BLENDING THE OLD AND THE NEW....
On my way to work I was browsing through the youtube and came across some beautiful Punjabi folk songs. Suddenly it brought back all those precious memories of my childhood and a sense of nostalgia surrounded me. Listening to some old Indian folk songs on a foreign land brings in me a feeling of glory, patriotism and sense of belongingness to my motherland. I consider myself blessed to be born in the 80s, raised in the 90s on the Indian soil and still surviving in the 21 st century to be a part of the globalization and advancement. My generation witnessed the best of both the worlds. We had the bliss of playing hide and seek on the streets, dancing in the rain, watching he-man and Spiderman on television, sitting in an ambassador, eating orange bar and chocobar, listening to the good old tape recorder and talking on the telephones (landlines). We were probably the last generation to watch Ramayana, Mahabharata and Chitrahaar on television, to see Rajiv Gandhi and In...