haNada hangillade kaLeda namma baalya

Introduction

Our early childhood years are now only pages in the past. Good roads, transit networks, and contemporary conveniences and technologies were nonexistent. Mobile phones and televisions seemed like futuristic ideas. Our interactions were centered around the community, home, school, friends, teachers, elders, play, study, and sports.Indeed, those were joyful times when we spent most of our time on the playgrounds, aside from studying in school, when we didn't have to rush through life. During the summer and Dasara holidays, we used to play outside.

Arshad Hussain, the author and buddy, has been meticulously recording the games played and the early years in his work. He has walked us through his memories of everything from kites, cow dung sports, kabaddi, lagori, to the everyday objects like sticks and slippers, and even bicycles. He unfolds it piece by piece if he decides to write about a bicycle. He tells us about how it was bought, how it is cleaned, the trips it takes, and the locations it has been seen. Reading this makes us feel as though we are pedaling a bicycle back to our early years. In the following section, As you turn each page, the writings here arouse your curiosity without disappointing you. It revolves around the core of our early years. One is encouraged to read this complete novel in one sitting due to its straightforward style. This book opens up rural life and brings back to memory many issues of that time.