"Good things always come in threes" - old proverb.
They were supposed to come in threes, but right now they're also coming in pees(sorry, Ps)....pathetic joke...ok here goes....
Today is Bijoya Dashami, the last day of Durga Puja, the one that leaves behind the most bittersweet memories to keep till next year's October. The riot of festivity and colour and dhunuchi-smoke that we call Durga Puja is finally over, and this is the time when on the one hand, we cry "Ma tumi jeyo naa" and on the other, carry the five idols in a truck(well, this puja was a first for me, being on tractors instead) to dump into some pond or lake.......
Here in BITS Pilani, we have a rather sizeable Bengali association called 'Moruchhaya'....for many of us, Moruchhaya is the heart and soul of the BITSian existence. It comprises an extremely diverse range of students, who, though possibly involved with a range of other 'clubs' and 'departments' doing all sorts of ex-co, still do their bit for the pujas,(from packing prasad packets to setting up sounds for the kids' dance programme) with the utmost dedication.....and nowhere are they as free and friendly as here...I am of course talking about our most eclectic group of seniors.
Anyway, thanks to them, this puja has been one of the best in my life....thank God I didn't go home.
Parents are really God's substitutes. My this belief was reinforced when my mother recently took as less as ten minutes to clean a room steadily going downhill w.r.t. habitability, which I had been unsuccessfully trying to do for two and a half months. The rest is best left unsaid, simply because i am too drowsy to say it all.
The last bit is OASIS 2007-PSYCHEDELIA...and believe me, it ROCKED!!!! Surprising how fast the entire campus can be mantled and dismantled again from a temporary state of insanity...but thsi is just what happened. Oct 12,13....nothing except a weird papier-mache thing in D-lawns. Oct 14 evening...poles, sticks, lights all over fd2 and the m-lawns, in D-lawns, the music has increased and so, drastically, has the rate of work. Oct 15 afternoon...D-lawns sports a massively overdone Castle Greyskull, the huts of the departments and clubs are up, so is Dominos, CCD etc. etc. , and so are teh SBI and the Vodafone banners. Oct 15 evening...a simply mindblowing "inaug"...superb performances from our mime and dance clubs.. including an awesome shadow dance to "Muqabla", followed by a rather astute chief-guest's speech, followed by some simply mindblowing fireworks over D-lawns.Meanwhile the DJ table and the Paintball War-Zone is up in C-lawns, stalls and posters for various events are all over Sky and FDII...Oasis has begun.
The highlights of this most memorable week? Lucky Ali's beautiful, soulful voice that left the jam-pcked hall screaming for more, today's visarjan and the exchange of greetings(& rosogullas) that followed, and the lovely sleep in air-conditioned VFast.....that's it.
So, goodnight.
Janus Thickey
EDIT: Rather stupid goof-up; it was supposed to be "astute" but I don't know how I ended up writing "asinine" instead. Maybe psychedelia at work, you never know. Thanks a lot for commenting, Prof. Natarajan.
They were supposed to come in threes, but right now they're also coming in pees(sorry, Ps)....pathetic joke...ok here goes....
Today is Bijoya Dashami, the last day of Durga Puja, the one that leaves behind the most bittersweet memories to keep till next year's October. The riot of festivity and colour and dhunuchi-smoke that we call Durga Puja is finally over, and this is the time when on the one hand, we cry "Ma tumi jeyo naa" and on the other, carry the five idols in a truck(well, this puja was a first for me, being on tractors instead) to dump into some pond or lake.......
Here in BITS Pilani, we have a rather sizeable Bengali association called 'Moruchhaya'....for many of us, Moruchhaya is the heart and soul of the BITSian existence. It comprises an extremely diverse range of students, who, though possibly involved with a range of other 'clubs' and 'departments' doing all sorts of ex-co, still do their bit for the pujas,(from packing prasad packets to setting up sounds for the kids' dance programme) with the utmost dedication.....and nowhere are they as free and friendly as here...I am of course talking about our most eclectic group of seniors.
Anyway, thanks to them, this puja has been one of the best in my life....thank God I didn't go home.
Parents are really God's substitutes. My this belief was reinforced when my mother recently took as less as ten minutes to clean a room steadily going downhill w.r.t. habitability, which I had been unsuccessfully trying to do for two and a half months. The rest is best left unsaid, simply because i am too drowsy to say it all.
The last bit is OASIS 2007-PSYCHEDELIA...and believe me, it ROCKED!!!! Surprising how fast the entire campus can be mantled and dismantled again from a temporary state of insanity...but thsi is just what happened. Oct 12,13....nothing except a weird papier-mache thing in D-lawns. Oct 14 evening...poles, sticks, lights all over fd2 and the m-lawns, in D-lawns, the music has increased and so, drastically, has the rate of work. Oct 15 afternoon...D-lawns sports a massively overdone Castle Greyskull, the huts of the departments and clubs are up, so is Dominos, CCD etc. etc. , and so are teh SBI and the Vodafone banners. Oct 15 evening...a simply mindblowing "inaug"...superb performances from our mime and dance clubs.. including an awesome shadow dance to "Muqabla", followed by a rather astute chief-guest's speech, followed by some simply mindblowing fireworks over D-lawns.Meanwhile the DJ table and the Paintball War-Zone is up in C-lawns, stalls and posters for various events are all over Sky and FDII...Oasis has begun.
The highlights of this most memorable week? Lucky Ali's beautiful, soulful voice that left the jam-pcked hall screaming for more, today's visarjan and the exchange of greetings(& rosogullas) that followed, and the lovely sleep in air-conditioned VFast.....that's it.
So, goodnight.
Janus Thickey
EDIT: Rather stupid goof-up; it was supposed to be "astute" but I don't know how I ended up writing "asinine" instead. Maybe psychedelia at work, you never know. Thanks a lot for commenting, Prof. Natarajan.
