Down memory lane🎫

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When my city was a small town the prosperity of natural environment was quite good than today. 

Today in the wave of development we are loosing the tranquility and greenery of our city because in the last two decades our city lost the badge of a small town. 

Now we can see the hustle bustle of people and listen the noise of vehicles echo around us. 

In the early 80s and 90s my Lakhimpur city was quite simple in lifestyle and having well greenery. 

In those day besides rickshaws the horse cart was very popular traveling medium to travel from one place to another place but as the time changed these traveling medium also vanished from the scene. 

It was the time when we traveled through the steam engines loco meter gauge trains which took whole day to reached the destination and perhaps that was why we had carried the launch boxes to ate in a middle of our journey. 

This seems to be very nostalgic today but in the past days it was reality and sometimes it also makes us very emotional because we were part of this era. 

That time we generally used to read novels and comics for the entertainment or knowledge. 

I remembered in those days we got these books in rent from the general store shops at a very lower cost. 

We used to played almost outdoor games, for example chasing each other, hide and seek and the cricket  which was the most popular sport in that era and to purchased a ball of rupees five we all friends were collected the money. 

Actually when the black and white television had brought to our house and watched the only available Doordarshan channel was very exciting because all our neighbors regularly came to watched their favorite programs which broadcast with a time limit.

Postcard, letter and telegram which had delivered to us by the postman and basic analog telephones were the only available source of communications. 

Many vintage things and services has been now forgotten but who ever witnessed all these things some of which not included in this article can recall it through their memories. 

© Uruj Shahid 

 

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