It is at moments like this when I truly feel nostalgic. I believe everybody who has had an enjoyable past would surely be. How were New Years in the simpler times ? ( I am not 80 years old !! )
We would huddle near the television till around eleven or twelve to watch the year end specials. My parents would sacrifice their sleep by 2 hours to live the moment of the New Year. Doordarshan would have really exciting countdowns of the best songs of the year. Although we would most surely know which song it would be, the excitement would carry us through the programme. Comedy shows bringing together the best actors from the television industry. The year end specials would have a movie which would have released like six to seven months back. The entire neighbourhood would reverberate with the sounds of these special programmes.
As far as celebrations go a cake from one of Calcuttas finest shops - Nahoums in New Market or Flurrys at Park Street would set the tone for the evening. Not to mention of course Plum Cakes, Candies and other goodies from our neighbours.
After cable television came we would tune ourselves to CNN or BBC to see visuals of fireworks from cities which have already experienced that moment.
People started becoming more private and stopped sharing their goodies unfortunately. May be that is something we start noticing after we become adults, but thats a different issue altogether.
Now the story is different. I had always wanted to cut that cake at the stroke of midnight for the sake of fashion. Although I can do that readily - in some corner of my heart I feel that I have already experienced the joy years before I have done it.
Anyway all said and done - I wish everybody (and myself secretly) a very happy year.
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