Saturday 29 December 2012

1980's













MILTON WATER BOTTLES: Part of every schoolkids arsenal - along with a giant backpack and a lunchbox - essential for dealing with hot days at school. Given how hard the insulated shells were, they also became weapons in any fights that broke out. Somewhere around 6th standard it became really uncool to carry one around and everyone stopped.Byomkesh Bakshi, the Sherlock Holmes of Indian tele. Extremely understated and highly intellectual. For those days, I actually think it was a pretty good detective show.I AM A COMPLAN BOY: This was a nutritional product that most of us took. The face of the company was "the complan boy." His sister was a "complan girl."
This was a video called 'Ek titli' (one butterfly), an attempt at explaining the importance of unity to children. It used to be screened in every possible break on DoorDarshan, the Indian National television. It's an elaborate animation of a girl telling her younger brother a story in the form of a song. Highly entertaining! @Vik B @Divya Bhaskaran @Lekha KnuffmanVIKRAM AUR BETAAL: Children's program containing stories from Indian mythology that aim at teaching kids life lessons. However, most of us were really creeped out by "betaal," a vampire like character who would hang upside down on a tree in the center of a cremation ground!the RASNA GIRL - rasna was the drink and the this played on DD all the time. her line was " I love you Rasna". INDRAJAL COMICS: Series published by the TImes of India, which featured (among more common characters such as The Phantom and Mandrake) the distinctly indigenous Bahadur and his skintight pink turtlenecks. My uncle used to tell us stories about him and Bahadur fighting off "dacoits" in the mountains.                                                                                                 







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