Happy Birthday!

#8
In college living in a hostel I even forgot the day.

Oh c`mon man. I thought this sort of stuff was only true in bad PTV dramas where successful businessmen were reminded of their birthday`s by their lovely sexless girlfriends after having a big execky meeting. ``Mujhe to bilkul yaad nahi raha!`` ``Chullain, chorain. Hum ick-khuttay dinner kurtay hain.``

Meetha Eesa!

#8 ``Upon marriage I who did not even my own birthday was expected to remember my wifes birthday and not only that remember in advance and buy her thoughtful gifts!! To this was aslo added the responsibliity of remembering the wedding anniversary.``
:-) Some of us also have 2 wedding anniversaries to remember - one wedding back in the old homeland, one in the new - hopefully you`re not in that boat...

Double birthdays were a common phenomenon in old days and one of the birthdays was likely to be 1st or the 15th of the month. There were two reasons for this. One, most parents simply did not know what their child`s birthdate was and there was no system of registration, especially in the villages. In other cases, people knew the birthdate but according to the desi months, sawan, bhadon, etc. So, when they went to the school for the child`s admission, they did not know the exact date or the date according to the Western calendar. The headmasters, in such cases, assigned an arbitrary date, usually a round number like the first or the fifteenth of the month.
I have had two birthdays since that day in the nineth class when we learnt to convert desi dates into the western dates!