Indeed a revolutionary invention of all time. No ssgian can deny having an affair with a walkman. What makes it an affair is the scarcity and a banned item in the campus. It was like a forbidden luxury which everyone wanted to have. If caught by teachers it goes to the registrar's store room from where things never return or if you are luckier enough to be caught by Mr Verma, that's the last minute of your walkman. He will not wait untill every inches of it is broken. It is an absolute horror to witness a newly bought walkman costing a thousand k being hurled like a baseball for which you have been saving from ur pocket money . And for a junior, he has to conceal it from seniors too. If gone in the hands of seniors its worse. You can count on getting meets from seniors and your walkman gone for good. Listening to music was special when u had so much risk involved. Borrowing new tapes from friends. Oh yes! I remember escaping to goalpara just to make mixed tapes of our favourite songs. 'Wingo' was the brand of that time cheap, disposable and with speakers while brave ones preferred the likes of aiwa and sony. I wonder what happened to my walkman which felled prey to my housemaster.
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i cant even recall how many i had.it started from abhimanyu house itself.we used to keep the pencil batteries outside the window at daytime to get charged and at night listen to it.and after 2-3 tracks when it gets over we use to chew the batteries to last till its end.(i can still remember the taste,kind of salty and tangy..hehehe....).
Walkman also reminds me of chandan saikia and his aiwa.
Hahaha... Well written...Absolutely hilarious & true. Not to forget those amplifiers hidden inside the box tables, connected to speakers placed inside the buckets.
yes now i recall.. all the lohit house senior rooms were connected by amplifiers from a single music player... long wires drawn through the windows.
i remember those chewed batteries..! :) my walkman got caught with a frnd by Mr Verma, i saw it getting ruthlessly smashed infront of my eyes :( RIP walkmans :)
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