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Thursday ! It was 7 pm went out to get some sweets,walking down on the shores of Dal Lake,it was so airy that i wanted to walk for while,tourist where busy all along shopping,relaxing ! Even lot of them were enjoying Shikara ride (Boat ride),there i saw few children busy with swimming,and taunting each other,it prompted me of my childhood ! How great was it ,how effervescing was it ! how wonderful was it! peep peep and my driver came up,and i left to home. This inspired me of a beautiful ghazal by versatile singer "Jagjit Singh" ye daulat bhii le lo, ye shoharat bhii le lo (You can take away my wealth,even my fame) bhale chhiin lo mujhase merii javaanii (Even though if you take my teenage) magar mujhako lautaa do bachapan kaa saavan ( But then give me back my childhood seasons) vo kaagaz kii kashtii, vo baarish kaa paanii ( Those playing paper boats, that rainy water) muhalle kii sabase nishaanii puraanii (Towns Antiques ) vo budhiyaa jise bachche kahate the naanii (That old...