HOLImania????

I have never liked to be part of rambunctious horde of Holi ever before. But this season of holi brought me a totally different kinda feelings and savor than what I hated this festival for.It may be because of the fact it was my first holi in a different place other than my home –hostel and with only and only friends. On the morning of holi, whole of the hostel was astir by 9, but nothing seemed evincing a different and special occasion, everything went normally. But everything changed when someone whistled asking to come down to lawn as Gulaal etc. was placed there. Around 20 -25 “gentle” denizens of the hostel reached to lawn, applying colors to each other, reciprocating each other smiles. This folks are the insignia of “decorum”- which is also a thing worth following in hostel, if not always, at least seldom. Soon archetypal creatures of this hostel caught the sight of this coterie. So without waiting much time, they assaulted these “gentlemen” in their own way. That was the very moment when boring and nothing-special feeling was superseded by the holi spirits. Now holi celebration was in full swing. one by one , all –no matters “ savage” or “ gentleman “- were out of their “dens” and “burrows “. Within few minutes, pallid job of wishing each other “happy holi” and embracing was over. Now it was the time get innovate the celebrations- after all we are engineers. it was the time to do something new with cloths. All of these maddened and freak beings began to pull out and tearing each other’s shirts, t-shirts etc. one wearing them was proclaimed as though committing a felony, and as a punishment he would be chastised by mob very severely and “brutally, in their own way. So rest of all who are merely an audiences to this moment, considered it wise to put off shirts and shirts and to join the what rest of crowd was doing. THANK GOD!!!!!!! These monsters spared trousers and other things…soon these “ brute and savage beasts” were bellowing, howling, growling, roaring,…. with “ RANG BARSE PHIGE CHUNAR WAALI”… This continued for more than 2 hours without any hitch or glitch. As it dawned upon me that it was lunchtime so I left this mobscene and returned to same word I had come out of……………..