We had no camps, apps or even TV, but we had the best summers, says Poonam Saxena

Train journeys with home-made aloo-poori, afternoons spent lounging with cousins and comic books. Saxena takes a fond look back, in this week’s The Way We Were.

I ran into a friend the other day, who told me about all the plans she had made for her 11-year-old son’s summer vacation. It sounded like a whirl of activity, from special art classes and theatre camps to environmental projects and goodness knows what else.

I don’t know if I was deprived or lucky, because I did none of this when I was in school. What I remember are long, languid days spent in the company of cousins and