Our first tech toy...

I am not sure if you people remember this ad, but it stirs my childhood memories and I take a trip down memory lane when I was a scornful teenager and impervious to the world of responsibilities. I forgot the lyrics as I heard it almost 10 years back. I desperately searched it on YouTube by typing reliance ad and listened patiently to many of them. YouTube is such a great chronicle of memories. Finally I found this astounding piece of music with luscious lyrics. This song has strings attached with the first phone in my house.

It was a reliance phone. It almost brought about death of the wristwatch. First hello was as exciting as my first hello world program! :D R world service for internet was free at that time. We used to wait for dad to hand over the mobile to us. All I remember is that there was an option to go into R world and from there different options used to appear like Music, News, Astrology, Cricket etc. I have faded memories of listening to tanha Dil song by Shaan. The blue light of the screen was so alluring and amazing for us.  We even saw our high school results on that phone…since everything was free; I remember entering random roll numbers to see other people’s marks.  

The late Dhirubhai Ambani‘s vision of a phone call being cheaper than a post card has already been achieved. He dreamt of a digital India where common man should have access to the tools of information and communication at an affordable cost and this advertisement depicts it very well.