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Starting Early

These days they start really early! Never realised that actually!..Ok let me explain, day before yesterday I had gone to my neighbour’s place for some function. Since mom is not well, I had to represent our family. Anyway, I found that not many guests were invited. Only the lady’s sister, one more girl from the neighbourhood and myself. Her husband was out of station, so it turned out to be an all girls affair sort of. As we settled down to have food, she asked if anyone cared for wine. Everyone said yes. When the wine was served, I was amazed to see her 9 year old daughter sipping away a glass of wine with us! I was, for sometime, dumbstuck. I looked at her mom. She was absolutely fine/cool with it. I knew that these they start really early, but this, for me was a bit too early.!!

May be I am still in some other era.

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  1. Virag says

    In Euro wine always listed in top ten wealthy food/drink,but it is not common, kid drink wine, even in countries( France , Aus, US etc) known for wine production/usages.

  2. Think Tank says

    Nope, this is not so common. In some societies, or at best in some families, this is common. By large, India is still pure and clean :)

  3. Nandita Thakur says

    Hi,
    Your shock is absoultely understandable. The problem is we all are psuedo modern. Our defination of modernism covers only wine, cigars, western outfit and free sex. We hardly understand that all this is much common in aadivasis and tribals all across the world. Well it would take time for our growing economy to understand this simple fact.

  4. Raj Mishra says

    GOOD POST