On reading the title I am sure many of you might have already guessed that I am going to talk about Cricket. Bingo!
But this statement was not uttered by a Teenage boy or his father or his grandfather....
This statement was uttered by my Nani and infact this was her signature statement whenever India played bad..
If she did not like the score - it was always termed as hopeless
I visited my grandparents every summers so it was approximately 20 days at Dadi's place and 20 days at Nanis place.
Nani looked like the typical grandmums who have grey hair and dark rimmed old fashioned spectacles and used to wear soft cotton saris. Her chandan ka teeka is what I remember very very clearly.
A little that I can say about my Nani - Shrimati Sundar Agnihotri - is an extremely Positive person, whose aura of positivity made everyone around also Positive!
A Sports lover and an ardent cricket FAN, A gossip lover (she could gossip with people of different age groups simultaneosuly), Expert in playing Chess, Bridge, Carrom you name it and she knows it. She knew the World geography on her fingertips, knew a zillion of Mantras Shlokas and Bhajans had a story for almost all the festivals on all the 365 days of the year :) and she was ambidextrous- I was a fan of her handwriting more so because her handwriting was beautiful and the same by both the hands :)
I liked watching her play Carrom and Chess with my cousin brother (her grandson)
Nani used to be very much engrossed in her Puja, she did the lengthy Puja - twice a day and it lasted for (if I remember it correctly) almost 2 hours.
The days when there was a Match she used to take breaks between her Puja, come near to the TV screen and have a close look at the score... For us waiting to Nani coming to see the score was more important than the Match itself : P
If the score was good she used to get a faint smile on her face and stayed back for a few more minutes to see India playing
and just in case if the score was something like
i.e.: 75/2...Huhhh HOPELESS and immediately went back to resume her Puja :)
And all of us used to burst out laughing!!
Such a reaction from a Lady who was 70 plus was indeed hilarious! We all enjoyed Nani's reactions to the score rather than the match itself : )
A few things that I learnt from her are
Age is just a number
Gossip on any topic under the sun except for people keeps you happy and thougtful!
Always have interest in games of all sorts they keeo you young and active both physically and mentally..
and ofcourse
Performing Pooja and watching Cricket are 2 things can be done simultaneously with equal dedication!
:))
