Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Banur Series - Part 1


Yashu,Atte,Myself,Manju,Varun and Teju
When I think of childhood , the places that first come to my mind are NR mohalla and Udayagiri in Mysore and Banur in Chikmagalur.This series is about all the nice time we had in Banur and all the sweet memories :) . I am already forgetting bits and pieces of that time. So before my memory becomes more hazier , let me start penning down all that I remember of those precious moments :)

To start with , Banur is my Mom's native place. Its a village in Chikmagalur district. All my summer holidays were spent there. I actually don’t remember even a single summer holiday that I spent in Mysore.We(me and Yashu) would pack our bags the day exam got over ( rather my mom packed them for us ;) ) and keep waiting for our parents to take us to Banur.And once we reached there , we would eagerly wait for the arrival of all my Cousins.
Teju,Dodamma,Atte and Dayanna
I remember Thatha ( My mom's Father ) used to keep ready a huge sack of rice during this time for the next 2 months ;)The day we reached there would go off in just having dinner and sleeping. But my eyes would be looking for Ashwini and Raju ( my other cousins whose house is just in front of my grandparents house ) ;) . 

And from the next day , we would all start off :D . We would wait eagerly for breakfast and run out to meet all cousins and friends .We would start off on all games - hide and seek, kunte pille, chowka baara, carom, halli gulli mane, kalla police, pagade etc,etc . Oh my god! What fun it was. We played so many games with those tamarind seeds, small stones, broken bangle pieces, etc.Though I remember the rules of those games now , I don’t remember there names :). May be we were inventing those games and rules then and there:D

And the amazing thing was, while playing hide and seek and such running around games, we used to simply go and hide in anyone's house or backyard of the houses, without even asking them and not thinking much about it :D And even they didn’t ask us not to make noise or as to who we were or anything :D.I remember once I was hiding in some house and they had given me roti and other stuff to eat :D

And during the night , we would all sleep in the hall and in between if any of us felt hot , we would just take a chaape ( small carpet ) and go and sleep outside on the street :D It was not a tar road , but a mud one. And there would be already many people sleeping outside ;)

So many more things to write about! But this is it for the first part of the series :) More to come in future posts of this series ;) .Yashu,Raju,Teju,Dayanna - If you guys happen to read these posts , do put across your memories of those times and any correction/additions to mine :)

10 comments:

Sandeep Gonivada said...

Good one... I guess everyone will have similar memories from their childhood. :) What fun we used to have those days!

krishkn said...

Nice one Rash :) ... It took me back to my childhood summer holidays ... ;)

Unknown said...

Surpriseeee! this snap will remind our joyous days(updated on fb), me though cannot recollect much of it but i trying to gather a few. I must say Dayanna was good at all carom, in which i could make only one black or left with nothing, n in hide n seek he used hide in a nook n corner, intially the player will search get tired and we all in a gang used to search him, n i still remember telling to yashu & manju " Attak untu lekake hella" :) not to forget my fav Adge Gudge in which we were preparing all kinds of recipes which my mom also could not prepare:), i must thank u for teaching me "Pa" bhashe our code lang, still more i will update in ur part-2 .In the mean while a gr8 reunion is needed.Our names jute, shhmira, shuya, juuma, raju etc

Yashaswini said...

Lol.. Teju-Jute!! Super name :D :D Hehe..
Nice blog Rash.. Refreshed all my Banur memories. Like Teju said I and Manju always used to be aatakke untu lekkakke illa in all the games.. And man how much we used to hate you guys for it.. In mara kothi aata we just used to run around literally like monkeys and no one even bothered to catch us :D Sumne nan illidini, nan kal mele ninthilla antha oodi hogadu.. Yaru nodthanu irlilla :D Yappa.. How much we had to plead you guys to let us join the games you played!! You guys never used to take us anywhere out with you.. Nanu Manju full upset :D We used to sit and wait for you the whole day. Avnu Police inspector, nanu constable antha.. Nanu door hatra beating.. Manju used to sit on Somanna's scooter.. Pushpatthe gu helbitirtha idvi, avru bandre baagilu tegibardu antha :D Manju bandra bandra antha keladu.. No sir antha nanu.. Yappa.. :D Nev band mele alle ninthiri navu bidalla antha.. Neevibru eneno kathe katti, gummajja na meet madakke hogidvi adu idu antha eneno heli bakra madi olage bartha idri :D :)

Yashaswini said...

And I am surprised you haven't mentioned about the 'Jatre'!! :) Ayyo.. Habba, Jatre banthu andre hindin dina rathri baglella full gudsi ella mane avru, sarsi ottige..esht chennagiradu.. :) I remember writing 'Welcome to Channabasappa's home' with the rangoli :) Duddu collect madakke full sahasa.. Avaga matra nammibrunna mathadstha iddiddu neevibru..coz' we always used to get more money from elders than you both :) Hehe.. Tikki collection innond craze avaga :)

Rashmi sandeep said...

@Deepu and Krish - Thanks :)

ya Teju , I remember the pa baashe :D apadu,ipidu,ipilla :D hehe . We used to make adge with all leaves,soil,stones :D

Yes , we should plan for a re-union :) Hopefully everyone is free for that ;)

And Yashu , this is the first of the series :D I will describe all that in forthcoming posts ;) Ya we used to avoid u guys coz u were such chotus then :D I remember u and Manju had done cockroach operation one day imagining yourselves to be docs :P :D

Rashmi sandeep said...

And Thanks for the snaps Teju , I have added them in the post :)

BJK Raju said...

Wow!! its superb...Thanks for reminding joyous and Innocent days.i remember one sequence "Nanu 1 sala nimma maneyalli dosa thintha idde,dosa jasthi agibittithu aaga teju ge helide avalu 1 piece yarigu gothagada haage thagondu hogi horagade hakidlu amele manju adanna amele nodidda naanu mathu teju manju ge adu meat antha heli nambisibittidvi avanu mane olage bandu Meat dosa thara ide antha ellarigu thoristha idda....:))

In those days our street was full busy and noisy.Things hasbeen changed now. we donot see such entertainment in our village.

I have lot of things to share, i will do it in Part II.

Rashmi sandeep said...

hehe hun Raju , nav Yashu mathe Manju ge sikkapatte topi hakta idvi :D nav en helidru nambkotha idvu eradu :D

Unknown said...

our yashu & manju were all police inspectors, constables, dectives and even i rememeber doctors also. bUt now diff for us to put topi to them but instead we need to bow our head.