Saturday, April 4, 2020

The D's of City Connect

A to Z Challenge - My Theme-  City Connect - my connect with....
Aurangabad-Schooling & Junior College / Bombay- Graduation & First job/ Chennai - Marriage & Motherhood

AURANGABAD

DHANDE KAAKU - She was my 1st Sanskrit teacher. Grammar basics  - "Devah- Devou- Devaah - Prathama" - started here.  Academic association with the language ended in Aurangabad not knowing , years later, Chennai would present another opportunity to reconnect with Sanskrit

BOMBAY
DRIVING SCHOOL - To clarify- I still don't drive. Will need a whole new dose of road experience to get me behind those steering wheels. But yes, the driving school lessons happened . Accelerator- Brake- Clutch- introductions; those early morning drives with instructor; the reverse gear practice. Then came the driving test- and finally a license!

CHENNAI

DUMMIES DRAMA- Stage plays throw up an entirely different experience. They teach you habits, you haven't been accustomed to before . Keeping your mobile phone on silent mode for 1.5 hours; No shifting seats while the play in on; Leaning to take that patient pause when the scene on the stage is changing. Chennai taught me- its worth practicing these nuances to enjoy a flawless performance on stage.

5 comments:

A Tarkabarka Hölgy said...

I have a licence but don't drive either :D
My roommate in college was learning Sanskrit. It sounded beautiful, but also very complicated...

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SG said...

Whenever we visited Chennai we always loved to watch stage plays, especially that of S.V. Sekar and Crazy Mohan. Very sorry Crazy Mohan passed away 9 months ago. RIP.

Pradeep Nair said...

Never easy to drive on Indian roads.
I don't know if things would be any different in the post-COVID new world order!

Aditya said...

Selected a great topic. It would give the pleasure of walking in the memory lanes. Grt.

Sriya Akhilesh said...

Thank you for introducing us to Dummies Drama - we enjoyed the experience every time we went! :D