Hi friends,
Adolescence is the teenage years between 13 and 19. It is the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood. It is the most enjoyable period of one's life. It is an unforgettable stage in life.
Are you aware of a radio?. It came as a valve set and then a transistor set. The transistor was portable. When I was 16 in 1961, I was in 1st PUC [now 11th] and my elder brother was in 2nd year Degree,
We had a GEC valve radio in our house. It was bought in 1955 and it had served its life. The tuning knobs had gone. The needle also had gone and it was replaced by a real needle. Only my father knew how to tune it.
For others, It was impossible to move the needle even an mm. My father purposely kept it like that so that the children did not spend their time on the radio without studying.
My brother learned the knack of moving the needle by observing our father. Its volume control was unique. If you tap on the right, side the volume would go up, If you tap on the left, it would go down.
Sometimes, it might go into silent mode as if it is doing meditation. It was not due to a power cut. If you tap on the top of the radio, it would come back to life. Such was the condition of our radio.
My father had no plans to buy a new one until all the children finished their education and even got married. Only my parents would listen to some drama broadcast by AIR Tiruchy at 8 PM
He used to warn us not to touch the radio but to concentrate on our studies. Only my elder brother and I had the audacity to touch it in his absence.
Every day at 4-30 pm, there was a program broadcast by Radio Ceylon under the caption BINACA GEETH MALA. The latest Hindi movie songs were broadcast at that time.
My brother was a great fan of Dev Anand and his film JAB PYAR KISSISE HOTA HAI was released then. Its songs were popular and it used to be the first song in the program.
After college at 4-30 pm, he used to come rushing down-home to tune to Radio Ceylon and to listen to his favorite song. The announcer would commence in SINHALESE as follows.
" AAIBO BAVAAN, ME LANKA BILADHUGUVANNA VIDHI SEVIYE, HATHAYAI NAVAYAI PATHYAI, BINAKA GEETH MALA PROGRAM AARAMBA KREEMITA, JAB PYAR KISSISE HOTA HAI CHITRA PATHAYE LATA MANGESHKAR OUR MOHAMED RAFI"
Mohd. Rafi and Lata had sung the song separately but it was mixed into a single song. However, after enjoying the song, it was a hell of a job to keep the needle back in its original position so that my father would not notice.
Our father, on his return from office, would casually ask who had touched the radio. One of the younger ones, out of the nine, fearing punishment would tell the truth to get a pat from the father as a good Samaritan.
The punishment was "to Fan our father 100 times with a hand fan {visiri]" as there was no electric fan. The Brutus would be banished by the rest of us until he surrendered. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
Adolescence is the teenage years between 13 and 19. It is the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood. It is the most enjoyable period of one's life. It is an unforgettable stage in life.
Are you aware of a radio?. It came as a valve set and then a transistor set. The transistor was portable. When I was 16 in 1961, I was in 1st PUC [now 11th] and my elder brother was in 2nd year Degree,
We had a GEC valve radio in our house. It was bought in 1955 and it had served its life. The tuning knobs had gone. The needle also had gone and it was replaced by a real needle. Only my father knew how to tune it.
For others, It was impossible to move the needle even an mm. My father purposely kept it like that so that the children did not spend their time on the radio without studying.
My brother learned the knack of moving the needle by observing our father. Its volume control was unique. If you tap on the right, side the volume would go up, If you tap on the left, it would go down.
Sometimes, it might go into silent mode as if it is doing meditation. It was not due to a power cut. If you tap on the top of the radio, it would come back to life. Such was the condition of our radio.
My father had no plans to buy a new one until all the children finished their education and even got married. Only my parents would listen to some drama broadcast by AIR Tiruchy at 8 PM
He used to warn us not to touch the radio but to concentrate on our studies. Only my elder brother and I had the audacity to touch it in his absence.
Every day at 4-30 pm, there was a program broadcast by Radio Ceylon under the caption BINACA GEETH MALA. The latest Hindi movie songs were broadcast at that time.
My brother was a great fan of Dev Anand and his film JAB PYAR KISSISE HOTA HAI was released then. Its songs were popular and it used to be the first song in the program.
After college at 4-30 pm, he used to come rushing down-home to tune to Radio Ceylon and to listen to his favorite song. The announcer would commence in SINHALESE as follows.
" AAIBO BAVAAN, ME LANKA BILADHUGUVANNA VIDHI SEVIYE, HATHAYAI NAVAYAI PATHYAI, BINAKA GEETH MALA PROGRAM AARAMBA KREEMITA, JAB PYAR KISSISE HOTA HAI CHITRA PATHAYE LATA MANGESHKAR OUR MOHAMED RAFI"
Mohd. Rafi and Lata had sung the song separately but it was mixed into a single song. However, after enjoying the song, it was a hell of a job to keep the needle back in its original position so that my father would not notice.
Our father, on his return from office, would casually ask who had touched the radio. One of the younger ones, out of the nine, fearing punishment would tell the truth to get a pat from the father as a good Samaritan.
The punishment was "to Fan our father 100 times with a hand fan {visiri]" as there was no electric fan. The Brutus would be banished by the rest of us until he surrendered. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
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