Colours of Symbiosis - Holi '09

Today's Holi at my symbi campus finally inspired me to start blogging after years of inertia to begin a blog. I feel todays awesome experience is worth writing , sharing with frns and to remember forever since this is the first ever holi i have played.

To my frns who are not aware of our campus , I need to give some introduction.. Our Symbiosis campus consists of SCMHRD, SIIB and SCIT colleges.. and i belong to SCIT - the gr8 Symbiosis Center for Information Technology - the only premier IT B-school in India as we call it.

When i came down for breakfast, it was all SIIB and SCMHRD students having fun...none of our college (SCIT) frns were there...returned lazily to my room ..sat watching them restlessly.

'Gals are good planners'..i should say..they made all arrangements the previous night,bought all the colours and started playing holi in their hostels. We, Lazy guys (atleast myself) came out of the rooms at 10 A.M, just to see campus bustling with holi celebrations. Woke up some of my frns and pushing some and pulling some, I went down. Having kept my wallet in the room , i had no money to buy colors...

"necessity is the mother of invention..." i suggested the guy who is selling the colors to maintain a book and note the credit rather selling to only those who pay money..and mine is the first name...
Loaded with colors i jumped into the center stage...with over enthusiasm..but before i opened my packet of colours...my frns emptied theirs on my face.. .I was overjoyed...hugged them..wished holi and continued the action part..



Needless to say i blackened their faces beyond recognition. Then ...firing water hoses with the speed of supersonic jets. one cant withstand that force from a close distance .. frns of our colleges started gathering...and now its a chain reaction. Soon it became the drama of "Mighty - Mighty - SCIT..." we took the center stage..no space on any ones face to color..its not one /two colors....its all layers of colors on the faces .





































T-shirts torn, shoes ripped,bodies drenched .Bare Salman khans posed for pictures .... ................................................ ........................................................................................................................

Each one was forcibly drowned till they shouted for survival..


























We continued playing in the pool near the cafeteria till we ran out of breath. Now...somebody found an innovative way...got bored with colors- took piles of wet mud from the plantations by the side of pool and bombed on the already unidentifiable faces.. after so many years i was able to recollect the taste of mud of slate pencils which i ate in my first class.




























Time up , said the security guards..whistling and hurrying students away from the pool..
There comes another alternative...the water tankers behind the boys hostel.














































People now vent their frustration by throwing the placement committee member..Mr. punit rastogi..into the mud.. gave him a decent mud bath as done in a Kerala's spa. I leave no stone unturned to avail that privilege of mucking up punit and soiling his face by dancing in the wet mud when he was laid down on the ground. Satisfied..fulfilled a dream.. Came out thumping my chest unaware of the plot that the next turn is mine as i got placed very recently...Yes..i too got felicitated by my frns with much more grandiose manner than punit...Oops.!!!.they made their final settlements with me this way.

I felt that this Holi is not all about colors but about a warm feeling when u hug ur frns and wish them - 'Happy Holi'. Though you are not in good terms with somebody, if u wish him with a hug , nothing else matters..he will reciprocate for sure and no bitter feelings there after.

Rarely do we get occasions like this and i feel am lucky that i haven't missed this....these are last few days of our MBA and these are the cherished moments that lasts forever.




Namastey ........!!!