Holi @ Colg

Officially am not supposed to be celebrating any festival this year coz of my Grandma's death but when it came to holi @ college, there is nothing official about it. Mom didnt sound too convinced when I informed her about my holi plans a week before, so I decided to underplay the whole scene this time. Bought colours well in advance and hid it in bag. Since friday was the last working day in college, after which our one week long mid-sem break started, we decided to play holi on friday.

We had planned a little party sorts before playing so everyone was supposed to be getting some 'goodies' to eat. Since am the only South-Indian in our gang, I wanted to get something typical. After some heavy thoughts, I decided on to 'kunuku' (dal-ka-pakoda as my friends later called it). I got up 5 in the morning to make it. When mom woke up and found me in kitchen, she passed me her typical suspicious look. I said I got a msg late at night and didnt get enough time to inform. I noticed when I lie, my hands tremble. It was almost 7:30 when I got done with the food packing and then rushed to get ready to go to college. Took a change dress and carefully slipped it into the bag.

We just had 2 morning lectures after which classes were suspended coz of the 'flower show' in the university. We got free by 11 and attacked on the Foooood!! There was lots of variety - bread pakoda, golden balls (made of suji), bread roll, dahi vada, petha, alu-paratha, dal-ka-pakoda and of course Gujiya! After we had filled our tummies, it was time to fill our hearts. We rushed to get our gulal packets and made a mess in the class running around and colouring each other. All shouting "happy holi","happy holi" and there was red, green and yellow all over the place. Sunny brought rose petals for Namrata and when he poured his love on her, there was this huge hooting!! It was so loud that the 'cleaning women' came and shooed us out of the class room. We then went out to the corridor to play.

Ayu took out her 'pakka colours' mixed it with water and got set to attack. First victim - her best friend, me ;) When she went to attack Savita, she was on phone dealing with her 'hitler' dad and got a little cross over Ayu for colouring her. This impulsive temperament of these two people did create friction and the whole plan was about to get flopped. At-times when two friends fight, it becomes very difficult for the gang to take sides! But thanks to the good old phrase "bura na mano, holi hai", things got into control soon and then started the whole splashing and running and attacking sessions. Come one, Come all... the gang was expanding slowly...

Guys on bike went to buy more and more colour. People emptying their water bottles on each others head. The 'guys' kinda holi was wild. WILD thats the word. Girls were still decent. People had a tough time managing their specks and mobile phones. Bags were nicely kept in a corner though library would have been a safer place but the guard out there said "iss halat mein anadar nahi jaa saktee". After we got a bit tired, we all started posing for photographs. There was this journalist from 'Dainik jagran' who was giving us situations to pose for and made us waste lots of gulal by throwing them in air for his photographs. There was dancing and clapping and singing. Since we couldnt manage a music player and we ourself had to sing, the song started and stopped at one line "rang barse bhege chunar wale rang barse". But even that tit-bit was fun.

After we had no energy left in us to continue further and the dried colors started irritating the skin, we decided to call off the celebrations. Went to the wash room to get cleaned. Savita had brought 'Lux' soap and there we started the rubbing and washing session. There were dialogs like "idhar kar" ,"udhar kar", "yaar yeh kese jaayega", "mein ghar kese jaoongi"!! After the cleaning up session, we moved on to see the 'flower show'. But we were all too tired to really 'enjoy' that. Few of us sat down and few others went to buy a few small stuffs. But at the end of the day when we were dispersing to our respective houses, we realized how much we all enjoyed the day.




P.S. This post is dedicated to two friends of mine - Ajay and Abhishek, who got promoted from being my 'friend' to 'good friend' after they started following my blog. I know you both are waiting for this post of mine, hope it stands to ur expectations!