Splendid Holi at Raigarh

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Holi at Raigarh

There was a plan to celebrate Holi in guest house, and the mail for this was circulated among all employees who were there in office on the eve of Holi.
There was a gathering planned at guest house around 9:00 AM, but to few daring people, the plan was to gather at 7:30 AM to have “Bhaang”. I was so excited as this was my first experience to have “Bhaang” (The “Bhaang” which has not met the expectations of its pecularity) Anyways there was none who has broken this law of waking up before somebody forcefully wakes u up, this theory holds good even for the one who is waking u up.

Somehow somebody has managed to wake one, who has in turn waken up all. I could have named that person but, how can I? I am having a “Bhaang” kick right now and I don’t remember what I am writing. I got up and took Puspendu with me to be part of that gathering.

So, we gathered there around 9:30 AM having a preliminary dry run at hostel with Arindam's typical yellow Ghulaal. There was a plan to play with colors, but colors were only ghulaal, so everybody might have had a thought that this holi is going to be a dry one, but soon after reaching home and finishing first round of bath, I realized how deadly were the colors. There is a proverb which should be changed here for those colors. “Holikul reet sada chali aayi, skin jaye par color na jayi”. I have heard one more proverb which I should mention here “sher ki khal me bhediya”, but “bhed ki khal me sher ” I have never heard but I felt this was true for the color which Prem has bought and used on us.

The color was terrible, this is the only bad thing I remember about this holi inspite of having a kick off Bhaang

We were there all playing with ghulaal, we went to a near by park where breakfast was being arranged, on the way, everybody has tried their hands to become a make Artist, but I will award Vikas for showing his best unhidden skills of doing makeup which he has done on Manoj, superb piece of art, half face read and half blue specially his moustache. While going to the park, there was only Chinmay who was left uncolored and given the extra responsibility of calling people who were left, Poor guy who was being punished for being clean, otherwise you could have seen Mom beating son’s who don’t’ take bath, and giving chocolates who take bath regularly.
So we have reached park all colored. There again everybody started putting colors on each other’s face. The most affected were Deepak and Neeraj, I don’t know why they were being targeted by everybody. Targeting Deepak may be because of useless mails he copies to whole IBM but sooner they have got people’s attention diverted when Shantanu and Subhash reached…
They became victims of the uncontrolled crowd so we all have got the clean targets, other wise putting colors on each other’s face was become like cleaning each others face as there was no place left on our faces untouched. So after all bash there was a photo session by Manoj, he told us to wait for Parveen to join, I was wondering how did he recognize that Parveen was not there, as it became very difficult to recognize even a person standing next to us. The best joke was, people were putting colors telling the person to say his name so that they will be assured that the color they are putting is on right person.


So we all were fully colored we went to hostel and then back to Guest house where we have found Debasis and Aniket and our search of finding clean people were finished, but sooner realized that colors were also finished (actually all colors went to Prem’s custody as he had some other plans with those.) In the room Vishal and Manoj were preparing Bhaang and Deepak was serving them milk to prepare a base… This was the preparation for which credit should go to Vishal who has taken all efforts to keep the big “Pateela (big round vessel)” in his room and then carrying it all to Ground where all were waiting for having life’s first experience to happen.

So atlast “Bhaang was being served and Yogesh and Joybrato were the luckiest to have most of it. Yogesh was tasting it from every glass and Joybrato was passing the glasses with half of it drinking himself.

So after drinking we had a photo where we all slept with our heads making a round and Manoj ready to capture it but suddenly Prem came and thrown colors that he has thrashed from us. Then there was Holi which nobody has expected Holi with cold drinks ha ha ha ha

When we came and went back for lunch I always had doubt that the adulteration in colors might be done by Sachin as he was the one most clean after bath. So that permanent color might have come from his pocket and have put on everyone except himself.
Now am waiting for doing that un-peculiar things which people do after having “Bhaang” but am sure Vishal (as Bhaang was in his room) or Prem (as he was behaving like he had that all) have eaten and diluted it which has still not shown its affect and I have written this blog.

But yes may be due to Bhaang only I might be writing and writing and writing.. ha ha ha.