Some months ago, at an airport, I got chatting with a Pakistani man who was a nurse in Finland. He was wearing one of those watches you see in the glossy mags. You know the kind of watch I’m talking about, the kind that looks like a rakhi designed by the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It had a number of circles inside, each with dials, probably capable of telling you everything from the humidity in South Korea to the temperature on Jupiter. All the while, I kept wondering how much it cost and what a waste it was in this age of cell phones that tell you the time.
I know. It’s not about what the watch does but how it looks. But something about these fancy watches creeps me out. All that money spent to have something ticking on you, telling you that you now have one second less to live – only there’s no red wire or blue wire that can be cut, like in the movies, so you can make it all not happen.
Thinking about watches makes me think about the study of mechanical time-keeping devices. The word for it is “horology,” which always makes me imagine a doctoral student wandering about in Sonagachi. After all, the people who ply their trade there are nothing if not conscious about time.
I sometimes wonder who it was that decided: It’s not enough that we know night from day, summer from spring. We’ve got to divvy it all up into hours and minutes and seconds so that we are aware of the countdown clock in excruciating detail. I’d like to have a few words with this chap, I really would.
Watches, in that sense, are like birthdays. Oh, it’s your birthday today. You have one less year left on this earth. Let’s throw a party and have some cake.
Birthdays have become a much bigger deal with Facebook. You get these alerts about who, among your friends, is having a birthday, and there’s a little box that pops up, so you don’t even have to take the effort of clicking your way to their wall. You can write your little congratulatory message right into that box.
Would it make a difference, then, if the box contained a set of pre-written messages and you just had to select one and hit ‘send’? After all, what you’re really saying is: Oh you poor thing, knocking on death’s door. Let me be one of 5000 others who helps you forget this fact by typing out an utterly generic birthday wish.
With a smiley. The smiley always makes things seem so much more heartfelt.
In fact, isn’t that what birthday parties are? All that pinning tails on donkeys and running around chairs to music and getting gifts (hopefully not an expensive watch) – it’s the ultimate distraction from what the day really means.
Birthdays are weirder on Facebook. So you’re either the kind who makes a big deal about birthdays or you’re not. If you belong to the latter category, it’s – as they say these days – no biggie. But if you like birthdays, don’t you like knowing that people have bothered to remember this day and are taking time out to wish you, without a reminder? Isn’t that what this day is all about?
Wow, you remembered, I’m so touched versus Oh, you probably didn’t know it was my birthday but now that this agglomeration of bits and bytes has told you, you’re typing out a wish on your cell phone and then you’re moving on to the cute-puppy picture that’s the next item on your timeline. That’s some cockle-warming going on right there.
I know it sounds like I’m being all kinds of grouchy here, but this is what you do in columns. You have these thoughts and you unburden and let the reader slap a palm to a horrified forehead that while reading this, they’ve inched that much closer to making a lot of worms really, really happy.
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venkatesh
March 25, 2015
Dude you need to let it go – … you are sounding positively luddite now
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Kesava
March 25, 2015
Is it, perchance, your birthday Mr Rangan? In which case, my heartiest wishes! I don’t often agree with your reviews or what you have to say about several movies, but I think few reviewers have had the insight and the language to express it, which makes your reviews quite a pleasure to read.
But if it isn’t your birthday, you badly need a stiff glass of good quality whiskey (bourbon or gin will also do), neat, if I may say so.
Anything that is inevitable – which includes the passing of time – would be indifferent to scrutiny. It is best accepted. As Khayyam said, concentrate on the bekhudi that is easily available, not the Khuda who is, always, out of reach.
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Shankar
March 25, 2015
“Let me be one of 5000 others who helps you forget this fact by typing out an utterly generic birthday wish”
Baddy, you do have this unique problem given your 4000 plus friends on FB! Even if only a quarter of them wished you on your birthday, you know that they only wished you because FB prompted them! I’ll try and say something more heartfelt on your next birthday! 🙂 ( <– Smiley!)
Vayasana (unakku illa, pothuva sonnen!) ippidiyellam thonum….vidu da! 🙂
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brangan
March 25, 2015
I am so enjoying the comments here 😀
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Noname
March 25, 2015
Superb post!!!. I share the same feeling….
By the by, is it your birthday today???
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vibhooti
March 25, 2015
The piece written is so remarkably true. The e world has so mechanised our lyf dat v don’t even know very closely a person in our frnd list,but tend to post dat b’day msg as if dat’ll really make a dfif in deir lyf.
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Shalini
March 25, 2015
Tetchy indeed. Why don’t you go steal some candy from a child? Bet it would make that blob of black tar that you call a heart smile. 😀
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Madan
March 25, 2015
Nice one. I love watches but undertaking a long flight journey through three timezones hours apart brought home their redundancy to me. When the plane landed at Heathrow, I had to consult my (aptly called) smartphone (which automatically displays the time at your current location) to reset my wristwatch. I did likewise at Chicago. That made me go, “God, how dumb these watches are!” Still love them though. 😀
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venkat ramanan
March 25, 2015
so probably 3 kinds of ppl will be here
one who know br personally … will comment something personal.
then ppl who dont know br and probably will comment on time , bday
and the third just to read the comments.. 😀
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Santa
March 25, 2015
The glass is definitely looking half-empty today, eh?
How about “You made it one more year (given that you were guaranteed none) ! 😀 ” instead of “You have one less year 😦 ”
(Gratuitous emojis included above 🙂 )
And in case it is your birthday, wish you the very best! Quite often, I look forward to reading your reviews more than watching the movie itself. So keep on keepin’ on…
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Anuja
March 25, 2015
Oh no you didn’t! I love watches so much more than shoes and handbags. In fact, I have been dropping broad hints to hubby that the ideal 10th wedding anniversary present would be a platinum Rolex/Omega and/or a diamond studded Cartier/Chopard (Who am I kidding, I want them all and then some). I never thought of watches that way and now I’ll never be able to look at one without thinking of ‘horology’. With your tetchy take on time, you have literally pissed all over my anniversary present. Damn it!
Don’t let it trouble your conscience though, diamond bangles (with matching ear – rings and a necklace) is an even better wedding anniversary present anyway. In case you are planning a searing column on conflict diamonds, besmirching a girl’s best friend, I humbly request you to give a clear warning in advance!
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brangan
March 25, 2015
I repeat: I am so enjoying the comments here 😀
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Iswarya
March 25, 2015
I feel bad doing this again.. Is that red light district reference supposed to have a ‘ply’ instead of ‘play’ their trade?
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naveen0717
March 25, 2015
Brilliant! This is one of the best pieces I’ve read by you!
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Iswarya
March 25, 2015
Having got that niggling burden off my head, whoa! I say!
This must seriously be more than coincidence.. Only this week I submit my research paper on characters that fret about ‘…the passage of time and impending death,’ and here our star goes all Hamlet on the world around.
If it’s really your birthday that’s led up to all these sombre reflections, well, ‘happy birthday’ with a cherry, oops.. smiley on top! There.. 🙂
But, seriously, ever happened to read this play, ‘If You’re Glad I’ll Be Frank’? Trailer: The automated voice you hear on the phone when you dial TIM in Britain is actually a woman sitting there and counting every ten seconds’ passing, just to announce it to the world! (The title is a joke!)
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brangan
March 25, 2015
Iswarya: There was a mistake and Shankar pointed it out. And I changed it an hour ago. You mean it’s still showing up as “play”?
And as I said, no need to feel bad. You’re being a help, really.
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brangan
March 25, 2015
And no people, not my birthday. You’ll know when that is — the day you see a post on dreams about severed arteries and rusty razor blades. I’m kidding, of course… (I think) 😀
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Iswarya
March 25, 2015
Page reload issue. My bad! Sorry.
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Iswarya
March 25, 2015
And you might as well clean up the last few comments. I only do it out of OCD. 😦
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Ram Murali
March 25, 2015
Guten Morgen Thalaivarey, I read this post with a sheepish grin plastered on my face coz… I am a watch freak! Developed a “weakness” for it ever since I saw my grandpa wear an exquisite leather strap watch. Went so well with the white shirt that he was wearing. That’s one of my vivid memories of him from my childhood days (Aiyyaiyo, I am inviting trouble/ridicule with this comment! But sappy matter elaam sappa matter illaye makkaley!)
But here’s something to make you feel better, BR – in “Nammavar,” Kamal never wears a watch and explains that, “time waste aagarthu enaku theriya vendaam!” but in the climax wears a watch gifted by the Gowthami character probably coz its a reminder that time is not limitless…Kamal-ey sollitaaru…!!
PS: Am traveling back from Berlin tonight…before I leave, I will shop for a…vidunga, “adha edhuku en vaayala sollitu!” (quoting Rajni from “Maapillai”)
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jussomebody
March 26, 2015
See, if you had said “I am so enjoying the comments here” without the grin, it would have come across as sarcasm. That’s what a smiley does too: clarifies the pleasure, humanizes this virtual expression of sentiment a little bit. Don’t hate on the smiley so much 🙂
Then again, the smiley could also be sarcastic, patronizing, and many other things all too human. It is totally worth its own paranoid column.
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Priya
March 26, 2015
“The word for it is “horology,” which always makes me imagine a doctoral student wandering about in Sonagachi.”
LOL! Exactly my thoughts every time I pass by the shop in Express Avenue!
I’m really loving your non-film posts (also). Please keep them coming. The first in the list was an article you wrote about 9/11. Amazing piece.
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Priya
March 26, 2015
By the way, I did ignore a Facebook birthday reminder last week because I am really not in touch with that person, not even virtually. And among the 260 (and odd) wishes, the person would not really notice. I don’t want to be part of this ‘plasticness’ of virtual life.
BTW, if you get a pop-up reminder, please do wish me (pal bhar ke liye koi hamein wish kar ley plastic hee sahi).. LOL
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Reuben
March 26, 2015
The most elegant definition of Time I have read is:
“Time is nature’s way to keep everything from happening all at once”
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Rahini David
March 26, 2015
BR:
1) Oru watchukea ippadina, the hourglasses must really make you weep as the sand on the section above slowly trickles down to the section below. 😉
2) I heard a few months ago that there are some tribes who do not count beyond two. They just have one, two and many. The book went on to explain that the tribal leader will know the names of his six children, but would not be acually able to count them. Imagine a life with no counting. No Birthdays, New Years, Ashtami, Navami, Marks, Calories, Inch Tapes, Facebook Likes, Facebook Friends, Blog Stats, Salary or Required Run Rate.
3) So what if the people who wish you did not actually remember your birthday? They still bothered to type the words and click the button. Nalla vishayam thaanea? Personalised Greetings still do happen over phone calls, cakes, visits, surprise parties, gifts, the whole lot. It will not happen from all your FB friends. But then, there is a huge difference between a Friend and an FB friend.
4) Do you get all worked up on New Years Eve too?
5) Do people who have birthdays on special days (like Christmas) also get worked up about this and say “You only remembered it because it is Christmas”?
6) When it comes to cake, any reason would do. 😀
jussomebody: True. But sometimes it is confusing. I recently heard that there is a difference in the way people use fullstops. That there is a difference between a “Bye” and “Bye.” My brain just doesn’t process that.
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bart
March 26, 2015
Same blood, boss. When I feel that even a seconds hand in a watch is unnecessary, I could never relate to all those fancy circles and ticking hands in them. Circles outside the dial too like a compass! Only if it shows the right direction, when lost in life…
B’day is no big deal but not responding to all these FB messages wishing you makes you uncaring and cold. I would like to keep quiet / be non-existent in general unless I’ve got something significant to share. These social media tools are pushing you out of your comfort cocoons. Same thing about “Like” buttons. I do not mind it here when I selectively press “like” for some comments in articles of interest, with privacy. But in FB, pressing for one post and not pressing for most others makes you “unlike”able.
Enough of this luddite rant. Tick-o-meters, auto-wishes, li(k)e-detectors – bring it on buggers 🙂 (friendly smiley)!
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Anu Warrier
March 26, 2015
Brangan, ‘Bah, Humbug!’ 🙂
(See, the addition of a smiley face makes it all better!)
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Rajesh
March 26, 2015
Completely off topic Sir.
Now that the news is out – it looks like, the co pilot locked out the main man out of cockpit and crashed the Germanwings flight into the Alpine rocks, for once, a movie story has just gotten life.
There was this Argentinian movie – Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales), an absolutely bloody brilliant movie, a collection of few short stories, in which the first story is exactly similar to what happened to Germanwings.
Knowing your preference for Hollywood and mainstream’s, I am assuming you may not have watched this one. But please try to. It is a beautiful movie with some crazy stories. I never thought one of those stories would come into life.
Now the movie will be watched by a lot, because of this incident. But few stories after the airline one, are even better.
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Madhu
March 26, 2015
Do we need to login to comment now, BR? My comment was lost when I posted it and I posted twice with same results. Thought it was a phone issue and posted via my laptop and the again…gone. In case you have my previous comments sitting in somewhere, please delete it, thanks!
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Jane
March 26, 2015
If it’s your birthday today, I’m clicking 1, if it happened yesterday, I’m clicking Sorry, and if it was just a clever piece on time, I’ve got the smiley and stuck-up thumb ready.
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zara196
March 26, 2015
Sounds like “tetchy thoughts on tech- takes your time away”
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sanjana
March 26, 2015
Watching a clock ticking away is creepy experience. Like a timebomb.
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sachita
March 26, 2015
People still have watches? but why?. I thought for a moment there you were going to talk about smart watches.
I have made the birthdate private in FB, to avoid the whole world reminding me about turning old. But even for me, this column was a little too sad.
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Hermoine Granger
March 26, 2015
Could not help posting this with all your reflections on time. “With little to distinguish one day from the next, time began to feel static. In English, we use the word time in different ways, “the time is 2:45” versus “I’m going through a tough time.” Time began to feel less like the ticking clock, and more like the state of being. Languor settled in.”
See more: http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2015spring/before-i-go.html
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Hareesh
March 27, 2015
Haha ! Although most of what Mr.Rangan has written is true, this piece feels more like an old man’s bitter rant.
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KayKay
March 27, 2015
All this talk of timepieces puts me in mind of a Will Ferrell joke:
My lesbian neighbours asked me what I wanted for my birthday and when I told them, they gave me a Rolex.
I think they misunderstood when I said ,”I wanna watch”
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Mohit
March 27, 2015
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sanjana
March 27, 2015
Sleep is the period we evade counting time.
Birthdays are celebrated with some happiness until one reaches 28 or 24. Then it becomes a habit.
40, 60, 70, 80 look like going downhill into that deep valley.
To cheer up, reaching 60 years adds some benefits like separate queues, incometax reliefs etc.
And centuries are no more confined to the cricketers. Living upto 90s is passe, while hitting100 is also becoming a norm than a rare event.
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palanisamya
March 27, 2015
BR,
I love watches……….may not be for their function, but it’s man’s jewelry.
Also, I have no problem celebrating birthday’s – even if I am over the hill, it’s better than buried under! It’s ALWAYS good if you can see the dirt from this side.
Like Kamal said – மனதில் தொப்பை விழாமல் பார்துக்கணும். That’s it!
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palanisamya
March 27, 2015
Ooops! It should read “பார்த்துக்கணும் ” – damn google!
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Priyangu
March 27, 2015
BR, i know when your real birthday is. 🙂 Don’t ask me how. And I never note down anybody’s birthday anywhere. I just happen to remember yours because we were born in the same year, so just felt like shouting, “yo bro!” when i saw your birth date! 🙂 Btw, advance happy birthday for this year! 🙂 I consider birthdays as a year towards growing wisdom, don’t care about graveyard.
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Girish
March 28, 2015
Netthi adi Saar…about the watches and the birthdays…made me smile on this hot humid boring Saturday morning
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Jeeva P
March 30, 2015
I’d like to have a few words with this chap, I really would.///
Admit now atleast you want to write like Holden Caulfield. Or I may have to sue you on behalf of Salinger.
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Chris Nolan
March 31, 2015
Sir, this question has always bothered me, especially in this post-Interstellar period.
Why the phrase “My watch is 10 minutes fast/slow” when it should actually be “My watch is leading/lagging by 10 minutes?”
If you consider y = mx + c, then the 10 minute offset actually refers to the ‘c’, whereas the words “fast/slow” refer to rate, that is ‘m’. Fast and slow can happen only if you travel to another planet. While on earth, you can’t change ‘m’, you can only adjust ‘c’.
I request everyone reading this to use the “lead/lag” terminology and reserve “fast/slow” when relativity of time actually comes into picture.
Thanks to all
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Chris Nolan
March 31, 2015
BTW: here’s officially announcing my next film, a sequel to Interstellar.
Since we’re a bit short on budget this time (shooting on 70mm) there’s no space travel involved in this one. Instead, the protagonist lives on an aeroplane which perpetually revolves around the earth. Its angular velocity w.r.t. the center of the earth is exactly the same in magnitude and opposite in direction as the angular velocity of earth’s rotation.
Thus, the vector (rotation/revolution of earth) which is causing time to proceed is cancelled out by the vector of the motion of the plane.
Thus, Cooper stays the same age because time has stood still for him, his daughter grows older than him.
Still trying to figure out if the aeroplane scenes will be a motion picture or, since there’s no progression of time, they’ll be a still image. Can someone send me Charlie Kaufman’s contact details? Thanks.
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jerinasriram
April 7, 2015
I am a bit late in writing here, but thought I’d include a few thoughts about this topic.
I for one wish every single person whose birthday I’m reminded of by most helpful FB and of course my own brain cells, genuinely. And my wishes are for the year always and mostly for happiness and success. Those bits and bytes however impersonal do certainly make one pause and type out a message, however phony, onto somebody’s wall. That microsecond of a pause, well, in this fast paced world should certainly mean something?
Do I take it that you have still not dipped your toes in the vast unknown called ‘spiritualism,’ considering your views about each passing year being one step closer to death? Death doesn’t have to be celebrated, but there’s nothing to be worried of really too, considering that the world we live in is ‘maya’ and the real journey is that of the soul after death. :).
I do hope you disclose your birthday and we, avid readers of your blog, do get a chance to wish you ‘happiness and success’ for the year and feel that we shared a microscopic part of the day with you 🙂
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cl
April 21, 2015
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday and a wonderful year ahead ! 🙂
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brangan
April 21, 2015
cl: Thank you, you strange mysterious person who knows things about me 🙂
Oh, and what a post to wish me on ! 😀
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Rahini David
April 21, 2015
Happy Birthday BR. This certainly is the best thread to wish you on.
Forget about the tic-toc-tic-toc, watch Madhavi in a swimsuit in tic-tic-tic instead.
🙂
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Srinivas R
April 21, 2015
Haooy B’day BR 😉
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Priya
April 21, 2015
Hayya! Budday va?? Happy, happy Birthday Brangan saab!
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Madhu
April 21, 2015
Happy birthday. Queen Elizabeth II shares birthday with you, BR! 😀
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Iswarya
April 21, 2015
Happy birthday, BR!
Not to forget the smiley! 🙂
Did any app or Facebook also tell you that you share your birthday with Charlotte Brontë? 🙂
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Rahini David
April 21, 2020
Happy Birthday, BR.
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brangan
April 21, 2020
Holy COVID — the posts you guys remember and bring up!!! 🙂
Thank you, Rahini!
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Venky Ramachandran
April 21, 2020
Happy Birthday, BR! Your blog always gives me joy!! May you keep writing more books and blogs!
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Voldemort
April 21, 2020
Happy Birthday BR.
May you have a great year!
21st of April of which year is it? 😛
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brangan
April 21, 2020
Voldemort: I am one of those people who – you will find – has no issues revealing the year of his birth. It is 1999.
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tonks
April 22, 2020
Aah you’re the same age as my son, then ☺️
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krishikari
April 23, 2020
At some point in my life, after the first HMT watch I was given by my parents, the one that had to be hand wound every night and the before everyone in the world got a cell phone, I stopped wearing watches because some mysterious body chemistry I manifest stopped them dead. (Even expensive ones just stopped working on my wrist) So I just learned to tell time by looking at the sun, that giant watch in the sky.
Also sorry for wishing you happy birthday, BR. It was completely insincere and I’ll never do it again.
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brangan
April 23, 2020
krishikari: Also sorry for wishing you happy birthday, BR. It was completely insincere and I’ll never do it again.
Uh… what’s this about? Did I sound pissed off about something you said? I don’t think so 🙂
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Ramit
April 23, 2020
Krishi is quoting from the article.
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krishikari
April 23, 2020
Not at all! That was said tongue in cheek, tone is difficult to communicate without 🙂 emoji I guess!
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brangan
August 30, 2020
Hahaha. This post landed up in the “Related posts” list for the Reader’s Write In…
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krishikari
August 30, 2020
Mysterious are the ways of the algorithm.
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abishekspeare
August 30, 2020
I read this article….time and again
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Rahini David
April 21, 2021
Happy birthday, BR
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Madan
April 21, 2021
Happy birthday BR
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KayKay
April 21, 2021
Happy Birthday, B! Stay Safe, Healthy and Happy. And keep knocking those reviews out, I don’t care if you write them or speak them. In fact, I suggest you SING your next reviews! And maybe rap a couple.
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Anuja Chandramouli
April 21, 2021
Birthday wishes BR! Hope you are stuffing your face with cake and champagne to cheer yourself up.
What a lovely post this was… KayKay’s comment always cracks me up 😂
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Karthik
April 21, 2021
Happy birthday, BR.
Here’s to hoping that those piles of unwritten words are rearranging themselves into something bigger that we’ll see on paper or screen..
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Aman Basha
April 21, 2021
Happy birthday to the best in the business. More than a critic, it is the wonderful space you have made here where people can discuss, put up their own writing and agree to disagree that makes you a cut above the rest.
Love to hear you write a song for a review and sing xD
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Anu Warrier
April 21, 2021
Happy Birthday, BR. Your tetchiness reflects mine these days, so thank you for the gift of smiles.
Double Kay, my friend, please don’t give him any more ideas! 🙂
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Macaulay Perapulla
April 22, 2021
@Kay Kay “In fact, I suggest you SING your next reviews! And maybe rap a couple.”. Oh yes! That would be a wonderful possibility. Long back, during the carnatic season, there was one set of musical reviews (written by Vijay Siva, if my memory serves me right) that were written as if Sage Narada was doing reviews amidst songs. Maybe BR could take that to the next level? Btw, Did you guys hear BR sing Christmas Carols, old gems in this video interview?
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abishekspeare
April 21, 2022
Happy BRth day , long live brangan
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Madan
April 21, 2022
Happy birthday BR!
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Rahini David
April 21, 2022
Ah, May the tradition of using this thread to wish BR a long life continue for long.
Happy birthday, BR
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H. Prasanna
April 21, 2022
BRinthanaal Vazthukkal BR, have a good one:)
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Anand Raghavan
April 21, 2022
If it’s your birthday, Happy Birthday BR.
“One more to age, Once more to us
It’s natural to wonder whats all the fuss
Sans Spring in step, the stride surely slower,
yet the heart and mind stays young forever”
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rsylviana
April 21, 2022
Happy birthday, BR! Have a great one !
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brangan
April 21, 2022
Thanks, all 😀
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Macaulay Perapulla
April 21, 2022
Happy Birthday BR!!! May you wear more flashy shirts and paint the town red!:)
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Karthik
April 21, 2022
Happy Birthday, BR!
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Eswar
April 21, 2022
Happy Birthday, BR.
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KayKay
April 21, 2022
Happy Birthday B! Hope there was a proper “Galatta” of a celebration 🙂
Stay Cool!
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abishekspeare
April 21, 2023
Happy BRth day, folks. Long live BR
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