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Gaurav Sobti
A personal memoir of growing up years...of changes...of India, Australia, America...of world events....of lessons learnt & unlearnt.
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Returning to India, but not before resolving issues — about Metallica & Naga Sadhus, Italian Mafia & a Hindu’s view-of-life, and university email spam!
‘Never allow schooling to come in the way of your education.’ -~ Mark Twain. ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️Final few years of teens - The Good Years.
More than anything, really, it was full-frontal exposure to Americana that was the bug that bit us kids of the 90s. It was in the 90s that Kurt Cobain found & lost Nirvana. It was also the time India went global & became ‘Incredible India’.
Engaged as a boy is with crossing over to adolescence, rhythms of the song the world sings enchant & enhance the onward march.
The concluding episode. Speaking of spirits. The cyclic nature of time. Waves. And a childhood memory of Goa.
Girls & Boys are this week’s leitmotif. I reflect on relationships from my early years, and question the notion of the ‘opposite sex’.
More on 1980s India. The role of popular media. Ramayana. Mahabharat. And a BBC documentarian’s view on 21st century India.
Some notes on my birth. A note from family history revealed. And that I was a Prince!? A Special Mention: Dr Sangat Singh, Joint Intelligence Committee, Government of India.