Sometimes I just look back in my life and wonder about how soon I grew up. Do you ever feel to go back to your life?? And live that life once more..??
Has anyone ever asked you - " what were the best days of your life???
It has just yesterday that I was busy with my collection of toys immersed in my fictional world of wrong and right, or the battle between good and bad, the time when everything we did seemed like a thing which we wanted to do, not the things which we had to do. When barbie dolls bags, designer pencil boxes and new shoes were supposed to be an exquisite luxury available only to a few. When Barbie dolls, zero period and video games were the only source of happiness for us.
But as life started getting more real, piece by piece, those pleasant childhood memories became more and more valuable to me.
The story is about those days when mobile phones, the internet and the ATMs hadn't yet invaded lives and "Doordarshan" was the only available channel on Indian television. The book brings out the childhood memories of Ravinder Singh, who hails from a poor Punjabi family settled in Orissa. His parents sacrifice all their comforts just to provide a good education to him and his brother Jitender, so that they need not live the same life like them, in poverty.