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Even the unpolished shoes look beautiful.

Aparajit Dharwadkar : ...First day in L.K.G. Sitting in the school bus on the last seat with his mom. My dad asked me to share my chocolate..i gave him a Gems and he gave me a Double Decker. Spent a lot of time together with him at his Dhankawadi house and then at Bajirao road house where we played Gilli Danda and ate lunch savouring his mom's pickles and his younger brother who used to pinch me a lot. We used to burn thermocol for fun and throw it onto the roof at his Hirabaug house. Is an engineer now in mumbai and he gave me a call out of the blue one fine morning and wanted me to rush down to Mumbai for a weekend or he would rush down to Nagar to see me. Fine young lad, this one, he is one fine lad. Pritam Dodeja : Anything about this fellow that i write would be less. Is in the U.S. for the last 14 years and i happened to contact him by sheer chance. As kids in Pune, we had membership at the same library near my place at Sahakarnagar. He still remembers the wicker swing he us

Elements....

You look at a pair of bathroom slippers after 20 years and you would feel nostalgic..Then the idea of meeting people you knew from 20 year old memories would certainly give you goosebumps. I have embarked on just such a journey to meet people or just talk to those who form a part of my long term memory. And it's not my sole decision. It's a conspiracy. It's a conspiracy so that we check on the salvage value of what's left of friends. But i know that it's not always a fairy tale story. But who are we to be judges? A long time ago when i was in 9th grade a friend from kindergarten came along with her parents to our place. I had every memory of me with their family carefully stored in the deep recesses of my mind. My mom and i were thrilled. But it seems they were not so thrilled from what they saw. Our walls needed painting. We were trying to manage a threadbare existence inspite of all our problems. The guests, maybe, had pictured us in a different position. They lef