Holi celebrations 2008

Holi, a festival of colour, always had a special place in my heart. I loved the festival since childhood, and made sure I never missed a single Holi. I have so many remembrances associated with it.

As a kid my only aim was to put colors on a clean person and make him/her part of us. When I grew up as teenager, saw there were other attributes attached to it as well. I remember guys used to plan how they would smear color on the girl they like, as girls used to plan how to get away without color smeared on their face. People used to eagerly wait for Holi so that they can come closer to his/her beloved and have prank filled fun time. Even those who didn’t have crush on anyone played and enjoyed Holi with friends.

As adults we became a bit more cautious about Holi and along with the above excuses came more seriousness associated along with it. We stopped forcing someone from applying colors and didn’t do those children like acts. However, we still loved the festival. And then came the days where we stopped actively participating in the festivities and became silent lover.



This time was I think after long 3-4 years I played Holi. Though this was nowhere close to the old festivities, I enjoyed my active participation. It was such a refreshing and lovely feeling. I felt I was in back in my childhood. It was a great feeling playing with colors.

I hope every year I am able to celebrate the festivities in much better way.

Route to a noise pollution free world?

Yesterday while roaming around in Commercial Street, saw a bunch of mute individuals talking among themselves. That actually made me conscious of the amount of noise around me. Suddenly I realized there were too many people talking, chit chatting and bargaining as loud as they can, including me and my partner. Everyone was speaking loud because they wanted to make their voice heard to their companion, the shop keeper etc, which threaten to get unheard because of the already loud noise that prevailed.

When I looked back at them closely, I was surprised to see neither they were anxious or annoyed by the noise around them, nor were they tensed of getting unheard! They were very calmly talking to each other without even contributing to the noise around. They were able to communicate as effectively as we do that too without being heard by others who need not hear them.

I was thinking what if everyone in this world would have been mute? What if none of could speak or listen? World would have been saved from noise pollution and other side effects of it! Each one of us would have been so calm and clear while talking to others. We could have made our point clear to the person, just to whom we wanted to. We didn’t need to let the whole world know what we want to tell an individual.

To top it all, we would never know what a scream is! We would never know how annoying it is when someone honks persistently on the road! What a loud speaker is all about! What it feels when we hear something we are not supposed to!

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What a great weekend it was!

It was a great weekend....after a long time had a good, relaxing weekend. Saturday was lazy day. Whole day i was busy watching Jodhaa Akbar over and over again. You must be feeling heights of joblessness....yes, it was! But, nothing feels so great when you try to find a flaw in such a nicely made movie. Whole afternoon i slept through, evening was time for having some nice chaats....Panipuri being the flavour of the day. Evening i went out, had a lazy evening drive....by the time i got back it was time to sleep :)

Sunday was no different.....got up pretty late, after having a late breakfast watched couple of movies in the afternoon and evening, went on to relax and read some casual stuff....

Coming back to office after a relaxing weekend like this, it feels so good...i feel more charged up and ready to jump into the weekly grind :)