Unpretentious and uncomplicated 1990s

•  When there were no mobile phones yet we always turned up at the right place at the right time

It is now 2013 and we cannot imagine life without technology for a minute

•  When summer vacations meant packing bags and off to cousins’ place in some other city, irrespective  of the fact that their city may be hotter than your city

Summer vacations have gone exotic and reached foreign shores

• When communication meant buying colorful writing pads, writing letters to friends/relatives in another city, waiting for the postman to deliver that much awaited exam roll number and of course, reply to the letters that you wrote to the folks in another city

Emails, text messages, BBM and Whatsapp are the most convenient and preferred modes to communicate with anyone anywhere

• When wishing a festival or an occasion like Diwali, New Year, birthday and anniversary meant sending Archies cards to friends and family

An SMS or posting on Facebook suffice on birthdays or Diwali

• When the only possible source of entertainment was TV and TV had few channels and those few channels had fewer shows and those fewer shows were watchable by whole family

TV channels are now blaring out the sitcoms that run into thousand episodes and the content of which ideally belongs to 1970s and of course TV is not the sole entertainment option

• When eating out with family meant going to a restaurant that just served good Shahi Paneer, Dal Makhni and Butter Chicken

Eating out with family now means picking a cuisine first and restaurant later, of course making everyone in the family come to a consensus is another matter altogether

• When listening to new movie songs meant going to a music shop and buying the audio cassette, coming home and playing – rewinding – forwarding to the song that happened to touch a chord with you

Listening to music is now just a click away, piracy notwithstanding

• When cartoons ran at a scheduled time everyday/every week on TV and evenings were spent in parks playing badminton

Cartoon channels are neck to neck in competition with your General Entertainment Channels in churning out content 24X7 and hence, the kids and the kid in you, both are living room grounded 

1990s were really unpretentious and simple. It did not shout for attention and there was no complex layers in understanding things. Growing up in 1990s had its own fun and comfort. The comfort of belonging to that era and yet going forward with the technology. The comfort of going back to the photo albums, 90s music, TV shows when the technology around gets too much to bear. 

And here is an ad that shall take you right back there! In the 90s. :-)