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Posted in Personal on 12/15/2008 11:45 pm by Seema Shaikh
WHERE ARE YOU??
Quite a few of my classmates have gone missing over the years……And I often wonder whether they think about me and wonder where I am…….I have always wanted to know about Edna…..a girl we all liked to hate. She must’ve been my classmate in the 3rd standard or so but I vividly remember her stealing my tiffin and forcing me to buy red colored chocolates we used to get at the shack just outside the school gate. We would then rub the chocolates on our lips to get the “feel” of applying lipstick……Edna with her teeth sticking out….Cruel, plump, Edna……where are you??
When Anju joined us in the 7th standard as a fresher in the middle of the term she seemed like she had dropped from fairyland. Soft spoken and prim and “propah” to the core we hated her coz she was everything we were not…..Her hairstyle had us eating out of our hands…..her hair were cut short and swept back, so we called it the “dove cut”. While at a school picnic I realised that she is not snobbish as we had imagined her to be….I decided I would like to have her as my friend…But just a few days later Anju’s dad was transferred, so they left town and we had no address to contact her….I never got the opportunity to tell you I liked you Anju……where are you??
I was almost in love with Nita….At just 11 years of age she defined beauty for me……If as a girl she had me drooling I wonder what she must’ve done to the guys in school. She was simple as simple can be, yet ethereally beautiful….I always wished she would like me as much as I liked her but her group of friends was different from mine. I remember she had gifted me a scarf like thing which I managed to lose, unfortunately and I mourned the loss of it for quite a few days. Because that was all I was left with as a memory of Nita….A porcelain beauty with soft silky hair and a heart warming smile, Nita…………where are you??
No movie that I ever saw while growing up was complete without Baby Guddu…..She was the daughter everyone wanted to have….As kids, she was our role model….She taught us how to cry perfectly, how to be perfectly naughty and how to be perfectly cute as well…..I never ever thought she would grow up….I did a complete search about her on the internet recently to know what happened of her after she left films….I don’t even know her real name…Wonder child…..where are you??
The missing people list could go on…..all I can do is hope and pray that each one of you is safe and happy wherever you are………….