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Patak (I threw it) and Gir Gaya (I dropped it)

Posted on January 22, 2007
Patak and Gir Gaya are the Favorite Words of my Niece. My brother-in-law Amrit has this to say about my niece who loves to throw their cell phones on the ground and then tell us innocently gir gaya or patak whatever catches her fancy:

Sometimes she doesn’t throw, as in, she doesn’t hurl the object as an act of throwing, she just let’s it fall from the point she’s holding it, without giving a second (or even a first) glance, as if it doesn’t exist, orchestrating an expression like an angel singing a melody of innocence, and you just want to give up the world for her there and then.

And I entirely agree with Amrit. This time I was at their place with my DSLR (my precious) and she wanted to play the same patak gir gaya game with it. After all, for her it was a new toy! Money doesn’t even figure in her world!

Only she could not figure out why the generally lenient masi (aunt) was not letting her even to touch that big black thing. And yet she would attach it to the front of her face and chase her with it all around the house. She protested a lot, she wanted the new toy for patak and gir gaya game but I too had to stand firm, out of necessity. After all buying another SLR is not an easy thing!

I guess she then thought of a good way of getting back at me. She keeps US timings in India and at 3.30 in the morning one day, she was telling my sister ‘masi baat’ (I want to talk to masi) My sis told her masi will not talk but give you gali (scold you). I dread the day when she will keep US hours and will be able to call her masi on her own.

 

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18 thoughts on “Patak (I threw it) and Gir Gaya (I dropped it)”

  1. Anonymous says:
    January 22, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    Those kids they are so sharp I tell ya! 🙂 Cute pic too!

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  2. Anonymous says:
    January 22, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    Your niece is cho cute !!! I dread the day when she will keep US hours and will be able to call her masi on her own.. This made me rolling with laughter. Beware, she’s growing !!

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  3. Pecos Blue says:
    January 23, 2007 at 3:20 am

    Very cute and funny–it will only get better : )

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  4. AJEYA RAO says:
    January 23, 2007 at 5:59 am

    Interesting! Yes kids have their own invented games and rules :-))

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  5. Anonymous says:
    January 23, 2007 at 11:25 am

    she is cute & looks innocent… but looks can be deceiving…

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  6. Sidhusaaheb says:
    January 23, 2007 at 2:05 pm

    She might also want to know some day as to why her Masi never posts her own pic on the blog, but promptly posted hers!:D

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  7. Tarun says:
    January 24, 2007 at 2:36 am

    kids are like that, she is cute I saw her very little in Amrit’s blog I think now she looks big 🙂

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  8. Mridula says:
    January 24, 2007 at 2:39 pm

    Sanjay, you are absolutely right.Cuckoo, she is growing so fast. Every time I visit her, she is up to some new tricks.Pecos Blue, true for both of us, I am sure your kid must be growing too in leaps and bounds.Absolutely Ajeya.Prashanth, she has so many expressions on her face! They keep changing every second.Sidhu, I took permission from my sis to post her picture. Also, my brother-in-law has posted her pictures in the past. Let her grow up, and then we shall see :)Tarun, she has become big, compared to the pics that Amrit has posted earlier. And thank you everyone for the comments 🙂

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  9. Teri says:
    January 25, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    She’s cute! Kids are so fun at that age! 🙂

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  10. Anonymous says:
    January 26, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    Very cute picture… I read Amrit’s post and it made me smile.

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  11. Mridula says:
    January 26, 2007 at 7:01 pm

    Teri, they sure are. I absolutely love playing with her.Emma, I took so much time to decide on which pictute to post and everytime I think I should have posted something else 🙂

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  12. Manu says:
    February 2, 2007 at 6:56 am

    it’s funny sometimes, sometimes when I start to think of things this way!when we’re little we play with toys cause we have in us so much energy and so much imagination.. but over time it’s the toys that stay, the act of play itself is lost..how dare can we then ‘patak’ our toys, once that we’ve ‘grown up’..

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  13. Mridula says:
    February 2, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    Manu, I let her do patak and gir gaya with my cell phone as much as she wants but with DSLR it is not possible, it is way too expensive for me to replace 🙂 So are you planning to write a blog eventually?

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  14. Manu says:
    February 3, 2007 at 4:54 am

    I do not think on those lines.. and if I do I’d like to change that.

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  15. Mridula says:
    February 3, 2007 at 5:01 am

    I didn’t get your comment Manu.

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  16. Manu says:
    February 3, 2007 at 8:57 am

    that was in response to ‘So are you planning to write a blog eventually?’sorry I sometimes get so lost in thought that I fail to reach out in a coherent way.

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  17. Mridula says:
    February 4, 2007 at 7:26 am

    But why? I thought writing a blog is such a harmless activity 🙂

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  18. Manu says:
    February 5, 2007 at 8:30 am

    i don’t (want to) think about things as being harmful or harmless before I start doing them.I’d (rather) think if it’d be effective or ineffective..anyways, I’ve seen that you’re the Big B and me the ‘chotte sarkar’ here.. and you’d do your best to launch me in the industry anyways

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