{"id":204,"date":"2011-11-10T17:35:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/?p=204"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:04:27","slug":"d-k-bose-demystified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/d-k-bose-demystified\/","title":{"rendered":"D K Bose – Demystified"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like to think of myself as a liberal person. But, some things just don\u2019t feel right. Like, having your 6-8 year old girls choreograph a dance to \u2018sheila ki jawani<\/a>\u2019 and the adults will later watch the performance. Even if it is a private party for a few close families. Even if everyone\u2019s daughter is participating. It just doesn\u2019t seem right when your girl is moving and grooving to \u2018I\u2019m too sexxxy for you, main tere haath na aani\u2019 (I\u2019m to sexy for you, you won\u2019t be able to get hold of me); especially because they don\u2019t know what it means. <\/p>\n

In a similar vein, not consciously, but it just so happens that we don\u2019t listen to anything that is vulgar\/not appropriate at home. Imagine my surprise when abu, one day, is singing \u201cbhaag, bhaag, d k bose, d k bose, d k bose, bhaag d k bose<\/a>\u201d (will be translated soon enough in this anecdote). He was singing it so well, with complete lyrics. That \u201cdon\u2019t know whether to laugh or to cry\u201d moment because except for that one play on words, the song is pretty cool. And the other kids in the house were laughing their hearts out while asking for an encore whenever abu went \u201cabhi aaayi yaaaa\u201d (listen to clip below to see what I mean). <\/p>\n

And this had become one of those routines for about 4-5 days. I couldn\u2019t say don\u2019t sing this song, lest I\u2019d have to explain why. I didn\u2019t want to bring in extra attention to something not worthy of it either. But ha-ha! If only parenting were so rosy to let it slide. The time came.<\/p>\n

abu \u2013 mamma, A was saying that \u2018bhaag bhaag\u2019 is a bad song. D K Bose is a bad word. No na, mamma? It\u2019s just a guy or girl\u2019s name, right?<\/p>\n

me (gulp, think, gulp, think, gulp) \u2013 well\u2026yes\u2026it is a name\u2026<\/p>\n

(gaining better control) see like when you say \u201cram, ram, ram, ram\u201d too many times, it sounds like \u201cmara, mara, mara, mara, mara\u201d (Who knew this common silly, joke-type thingy would come in handy as a parenting tool!?) similarly, when you say \u201cD K Bose\u201d together too often it becomes a word which has a very bad meaning. So bad that even adults shouldn\u2019t really be saying it. (I wanted to add, \u201ccome to think of it,  I don\u2019t think I know why it is bad\u201d, but let that be.)<\/p>\n

abu \u2013 ok<\/p>\n

me \u2026 (*phew* that was easy) \u2026 I left the room, only to think the song ain\u2019t that bad and the way he sang it, lyrics and all, it was worth encouraging. Here\u2019s hoping I haven\u2019t caused any serious damage to my 9-year-old\u2019s developing brain\/IQ\/EQ\/whatever… <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for your listening pleasure \u2013 abu\u2019s version of \u2018bhaag bhaag\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to think of myself as a liberal person. But, some things just don\u2019t feel right. Like, having your 6-8 year old girls choreograph a dance to \u2018sheila ki jawani\u2019 and the adults will later watch the performance. Even if it is a private party for a few close families. Even if everyone\u2019s daughter […Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,27,58,20,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/abu-rabad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}