Recently my aunt Asha turned 60 years old. It was an occasion where most members of my family - aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews - came to New Delhi from different parts of India and the United States.
For over ten days, there were lots of parties, dinners, outings, etc. I had fun like I haven't had in a while. It was great to meet most of my cousins after a long time.
But what struck me the most is what I'll call - recreating nostalgia. You see, my cousins and I spent a lot of time together when we were growing up. That was the time when most of them lived in Delhi and some were scattered in different parts of India. Every summer they would come to Delhi (sometimes I would go to Bombay). But those days are the days I remember with a pang of nostalgia many times. I'm talking about the late 1980s early 1990s.
But over the past fortnight, I felt as is we were 'recreating nostalgia'. Because not only did we relive those fun days of being teenagers and early twenty-somethings, we also seemed to strengthen the bond between us so that we will continue to have better days ahead to remember. We recreated our days of nostalgia and at the same time created another moment in our lives that we will look back nostalgically in the future!
