08/03/2015

08/03/2015; 06:45:

We’re about two hours away from the inaugural of ‘Utkarsha’- the first-ever IPM Social Fest.

The evening of 5th March was spent ushering in spring, with the festival of colours- Holika Dahan i.e. the burning of the fire on Holi happened at around 9 p.m., on the football ground. The event saw music, dancing and of course, it gave way to colours being smeared on everyone’s faces. I got to return to my room with a half red & a half pink face. Of course, not much effort went into cleaning up, for there was a lot more where that came from, all lined up for the next morning.

As decided by the Cultural Committee, Holi was to kick –off at 9 a.m. Of course, all the boys had planned and were there earlier, creating a large pool of muck, where people were to be dunked, all through the celebration. About a hundred kilos of gulaal had been arranged; there was music playing and there were colourful people everywhere. The celebration ended on a perfect note, with water being sprayed everywhere and samosas being served to all.
Later in the evening, we managed to get our hands on delicious gujjiya; our festival was now complete.
We headed out for lunch, on the 7th. At around 10 p.m., we began a run-through of the next morning’s programme.

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