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What were your parents doing at your age?

It was the time when President Bill Clinton entered the White House and Indian PM Narasimha Rao introduced liberalisations in economic policies.

The Cold War between the USA and the USSR had just begun to end thanks to Glasnost and Perestroika by Mikhail Gorbachev.

The source of all this information was the radio and bulky television sets in those days. Another was the daily newspapers and periodic. The Internet was not on the horizon. Mobile phones were novelties that happened to appear in science magazines as the future mode of communication. Gossip about the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was hitting headlines, regarded as the biggest controversy after Princess Dianna and Dody Fayed in political circles.

Nostalgic thirty years back parents in India had weekend recreation in single-screen cinema halls, the ones that teenagers today have not even seen for the prevailing concept of screening in the multiplex.

Another big shot was the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya by the Hindu devotees that heralded a path to the construction of a five hundred years-long awaited Ram Mandir.