happy HoLi doston..(dedicated to my skul n rla frens)..

Gulal ki khushbu,
Gujiya ki mithaas..
Holi ke rang,
Dhol ka saath..
Dil ki khushi,
Aur apno ka pyaar..
Mubaarak ho aapko holi ka tyohaar!!!

I m sure all of u must be flooded with these kind of sms’s in ur cells.. even my cell has got variety of holi msgs ranging from the description of holi colors to the wishes to my family. In trivial parts of India, still the holi starts before the usual date and goes on for around 10 days.
Well we also fall into dis category who are enrolled with universities n r still in the study process. We generally start playing holi 3-4 days before with our class mates and college mates. I played wid my my dett ppl as early as 4 days before the actual day which was really well managed.. But that’s only a kind of consolation for ppl lyk me whose actual HOLI DAY is being spent sitting ideal inside the house. And the major reason behind this being frens and family.. yeah.. family who doesn’t play holi anymore after a series of incidents in our family and frens who have moved to different parts of country to settle in their lives.
Till last year, when most of my frens were studying, there was always a chance to play wid dem, moving around on bikes n cars and celebrating the sense of togetherness. But now most of dem have become professional n now dey don’t have the required tym n resources to play.
Starting off with pesko n prashant. Both of them have joined Infosys in mysore and are working even on HOLI day as their company works on “angrez” policies of only celebrating Christmas n ignoring rest all festivals of our country. I had a talk wid pesko who gave me this hilarious piece of info dat dey got a mail regarding holi – “no damage shud be done to any of d office item or any asset of company else dey will be liable to pay a heavy fine”. The irony of this situation is dat the mail didn’t had any kind of wishes being conveyed to their employees. So one can imagine deir work culture. Anyways, pesko has been one of those who always loved to play holi but always in girlish style.. he wud always be worried about his skin, his hairs, his clothes, wat wud his parents think abt him n his frens and etc etc. but still wud be sporting enuff to play wid us. Once we told him dat we wont be cuming to his house to play n he can comfortably take bath but then we juz dropped in at his place wen he was all ready wid neat n tidy make up of his. He was shocked to see 5 of us – sanjay,me,ankit,prashant,mukul. He just went behind his main entry in fear of getting painted by us as we were carrying those baddie color.. still wid courtesy he came out wid glasses of water for us and wat d hell we did wid him is still unforgettable. We all mixed the green wala color in the glass of water n put it on his head. He suddenly became eco-friendly fren of ours – GREEN pesko, CLEAN pesko.. hehehe…. It was wonderful site but even more wonderful was to see the frustration on pesko’s face cuz of our dirty plan. But still he managed to get a smile n den played wid us wholeheartedly…..
Prashant was the one always boasting around his holi preps wid all kind of dirty colors in his pocket n searching for gals to put on.. but luckily never succeeded as we were always wid him.. “humaare hote huey usske paas koi ladki nahi aati thi….” Hehehehehe….
Sanjay was the man wid heart of playing dirtiest holi among us all… he used to play wid all kind of grease, eggs, dirt, mud, purple, green n wat not… but we were fortunate enuff of not being his target of all dis cuz he usually played dis kind of dirt holi only wid his colony frens.. we all luked dangerous but we were the safest ones to play holi wid… even he is in lucknow dese days pursuing some 6 months short term course in lieu of getting a good placement.. hope he succeeds….
Next comes the VARUN.. the Punjabi munda who was also very elegant in playing holi.. usually he was very sensitive to colors but still he wud never disagree to play wid us n always came out wid me to visit the homes of our frens.. he knew dat fun was never inside rooms on holi,.. it was all out in pink, red, green , yellow n d likes…. He is currently in mumbai sitting in an airconditioned TCS building trying to figure out his future…. So the one who used to accompany me to all d places is missing.. so m trying to find d pink n blues inside my room only dis tym….
Ankit singal has always been busy wid family functions.. mostly he spent tym wid family and was seen very rarely wid us on holi.. but still whenever he got tym, he joined us for sure to play wid colors…
All of us used to visit the house of our female skool frens who lived nearby only.. but none of them ever entertained us as we luked horrible in the blend of all dirty colors… but then we always tried n used to roam around juz to c wats goin on in nearby areas.. the mode of transport was always my grey santro as my parents were never afraid of our car getting colorful.. dey always said dat we’ll get it dry cleaned so we mustn’t worry abt it n juz enjoy our holi session.. dis was really sweet!!!!!
Dis was all about my holi day but there wer few more frens wid whom I played holi in last 3 yrs.. my cheapsters gang… yeah.. sarvesh, kunal, manish,naveen, tauseef, saurabh, shobha, dj, sheelam n many more.. benito jaurez marg wud always be flooded wid lots of dirty colors during hole days n RLA walas were the major reason behind dat.. we the ppl from comp sci hons used to play it really hard at south campus. I remember last yr wen we played wid the colors of bottles being carried by “chuski wala” at satya niketan.. it was really messy.. sarvesh is now working in wipro, kunal in DMRC, manish,naveen n tauseef in TCS Chennai.. sheelam is in banagalore n dj is lost sumwhere in her own world… shobha is the new emcee in the town now so she has to be more looks conscious so as to present herself well at different shows… even our seniors were really cooperative in playing bad holi.. it was by puneet, amit, Nikhil, meetali etc who started dis all in front of us n we carried it till our final year.. I hav heard dat dis yr no1 played holi in rla which was quite disappointing but den dis is how lyf goes on… sum plays n sum don’t…..
So dis year it was overall very lonely holi… most of d frens being sitting in ties n trousers at deir workplace working for a colorful holi in future…. I am missing all of dem n wished to revert back into dose days of playful n colorful celebrations wid dem…..