New Year celebrations

Spending a few hours with the denizens of the Old Age home was quite a learning experience. They exuberated liveliness, warmth and innocence. I cannot forget one of the ladies, who was literally jiving away to the dance numbers. All the time that we were there, there was not a single moment that she did not enjoy. She wanted to be clicked in all the possible poses and we obliged her. Since everyone was clicking pics with digital cameras, one of the elderly persons started to enquire about the latest models and the most recent technologies. So, my colleague started to explain photography in the most simplistic ways. The gentleman listened to him patiently and finally when he was done, he gently remarked that he himself was a photographer! Ahem, ahem....a bouncer! Then, as we were singing for them, they joined us most enthusiastically and had a quite a few interesting requests as well. One of the septuagenarians sang the most naughty bollywood numbers and he remembered the complete lyrics! This was followed by a session of shaero-shayari...again, leaving us all amazed. Then, there was a gentleman who was very warm with everybody and had a vivacious laughter. He told us that he was a young man of 82! He had been a leading advocate of his times but had become deaf due to a personal tragedy where he had lost all his kids. Nevertheless, none of us could match his spirits. When we were about to leave, he called me and gave me a ten rupee note asking me to buy some soup for myself. In the end, all of them wanted us to come back and give them the hard copies of the pics that we had clicked...that's all.