75 I Liked Growing Up in India

On 75th anniversary of India's independence from British, I list out 75 things I liked growing up and living in India:

1. Dasheri mangos
2. Kolam outside a house
3. Sound of Pressure Cooker
4. Cosco cricket ball & MRF sticker bat
   
5. Gully cricket inside a room, road, or any other space
6. Coconut water
7. Centerfresh Cricket Cards
8. Playing WWE cards - chest, biceps, height, rank
9. Shaktiman on Sundays
10. 4-6 pm DD Metro - Chip & Dale, Talespin, Gummy Bears & Duck Tales
11. Recording and rewatching my favorite songs and movies on VCR tapes
12. Sony Walkman
13. Higginbothams and Blossoms
14. Chacha Choudhary
15. Cartoon Network
16. Tinkle & Chandamama comics at Railway Station
17. Sound of the train when it goes through a bridge or tunnel
18. Family sharing food during second-class train journey
19. Journey from railway compartment to pantry car
20. Dictionary to play book cricket
21. Pen fights and thumb fights
22. Milton water bottle fights
23. Lays and Tazos
24. Phantom cigarette
25. Gobi Manchurian
26. Boiled peanuts & raw mango with chili in Chennai beach
27. Gol gappas from a migrant worker’s stall
28. Finding another ball while looking for my lost ball
29. Smell of petrol, eraser, and crayon
30. Nataraj pencils
31. Brown notebook covers
32. Pepsi cola, aamchur and banta soda
33. 30-minute PT period twice a week & PT class as substitution
34. Exchanging my idlis for parathas and mango pickle
35. Flower pots for Diwali
36. Local festival of an unknown deity
37. Eating meals from a banana leaf
38. Holi with a pichkari and friends
39. Listening to Rahman’s Tamil songs from 90s
40. Watching Rajnikanth’s movies in theatre
41. Dil Chahta Hai for the first time
42. Listening to Kal Ho Na Ho title track on radio
43. Cricket commentary on a small radio during coaching classes
44. Rs 20 McAloo Tikki Burger at McDonalds & Rs 5 soft-serve
45. Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana and Mahabharata of VCR
46. Cooler in Delhi
47. Dip Idli Sambhar
48. Mohammad Rafi & Illairaja songs
49. Gulzar poems
50. Chai and Maggi at a hill station
51. Bata school shoes
52. Shoes with lights
53. Vivek and Vadivellu comedy
54. Bathing from Water Bucket
55. Haldirams
56. Malgudi Days
57. Reading Goosebumps at Night
58. Snowfall in Manali
59. Monsoon rains
60. Hails in Delhi
61. Antakshari on a bus ride
62. Business Game, Scrabble, Boggle, Snakes & Ladder
63. Bubble wraps
64. Tetris on Brick Game
65. Removing cycle support and riding for the first time
66. Cursive writing book
67. Hum Paanch, Hip Hip Hurray
68. Thenali Raman, Akbar Birbal, Vikram Vetal stories
69. Jungle Jungle Pata Chala Hai, Chaddi Pehenke Phool Khila Hai
70. Filter Kaapi
71. KrackJack, Good Day Biscuits
72. Collecting Pokemon cards without playing a single game
73. Meeting grandparents every summer holidays
74. Flying kites during Independence Day
75. Maa Tujhe Salaam on Independence Day