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Why is a sip of paper boat close to my heart?

Why is a sip of paper boat close to my heart?
 Every child grows into a man. However, every child clings to the grown up man. This is the reason for many people to adhere to the virtues and goodness. Do you want to know why? Every mother or teacher imparts morality and knowledge to her/his ward during his childhood. Memories of childhood bring memories of values and virtues. Childhood is a platform or even a pataasaalai to learn and grow. Every word in every toddler days of a man remains as an inscription.
Being an addict to Television commercials, Paper Boats did not allow me to scroll the channel. The elements in the paper boat ad attract me. The main thing is the name itself. The name “Paper Boat” is taken from the poem, “Paper Boat” by Tagore.
Tagore is of course a master of Indian writing. In a country, where childhood is cherished, Tagore proved it through this poem, with the lines,
          “The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading in
           their baskets full of dreams.” 
“Malgudi Days” of R.K. Narayan was telecast on TV. The TV commercial uses wisely the music of this serial to evoke the nostalgic tenderness in every man.
 The ads are also highly creative. The ad for Aam Panna, Neermor, Jaljeera, Kalakatta, Kokkum, Rasam, Tea, and other things too enchant the viewers. India is a close knit country, though bigger than Europe. The differences form the beauty of the country.
Neermor is specific to Tamil Nadu, while Kokkum is found in Karnataka. This gives the reminiscence of the Tinkle comics. Tinkle comics was highly read by everyone. Sometimes people write with the vernacular words still lingering to it. The spirit of finding the meanings for the words made everyone always up.
A holiday to Sterling Resort would be worth a trip. The non-internet milieu did not offer immediacy. At sterling resort, people from different places joined for their holidays. Several things pertaining to culture was learnt just within the short span trip.
Happiness was with other ads too. The jingles of the ads, the characters and taglines also stayed close to cardio-walls.
Of course, happiness is being a child. Bliss is to retain the child in us even though things size up. This page gives us the opportunity to meet the child in us, every moment we read the paper.  Happy Nostalgia.
Kindly participate in the events pertaining to the old memories and sparing little time for great things leads to massive turns for a collective progress!!!!
Sivashruthy Namachivayam

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Devagi Mohanasundharam said…
It's good to go back to my nostalgia... Got an idea to design my page
May 17, 2018 at 5:39 AM
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