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Regardless of where you stay, there are some sounds that you just cannot get to hear outside of your home.
being in this "situation" for quite some time now, i realise that there are quite a few of them that i miss on a regular basis.

So here they are, in no particular order.

• Leaves rustling with the wind on a lazy Sunday afternoon (during winter, natch)

• Night-watchman's stick hitting the ground during unearthly hours
• A car's reverse-horn piercing through the still of the night (i never thought i'd miss this)
• The different sounding horns of trucks,the mechanical bells on cycles and the squeeze horns on rickshaws
• Faint sound of far off trucks passing through the streets late in the night
  
• Shehenai playing on the loudspeaker of a near-by marriage hall / bands playing tunes of totally unrelated Bollywood numbers with meticulous attention to detail
• Pheriwalas shouting out 'bhaajiiiiyaa ...' or 'paaeepaarr ...' every minute as they pass your lane roaming the streets
• VividhBharati's jingle and the announcements of their RJs (we can call them that, right?) in their proprietary, monotonous voices
• Bangles clinking as the womenfolk go around doing their housework
• Stray dogs/cats barking/mewing away to glory in the middle of the night
• dialogues from afternoon soaps coming from 5 different directions (the same one) other than your own TV set (especially when you are trying to concentrate on something)
• unoiled, heavy iron gates/steel almirahs creaking while opening and closing
  
• ...
  

Your mileage may vary, of course. Do you miss any sounds from your days of yore?
Do let me know in the comments...

Labels: not_home, sounds