Holi, the Festival of Colours, is celebrated in
the month of Phalgun on a full moon day,
according to the lunar calendar and usually
falls in the month of March. Phalgun is the
month of spring in India
As because we are from SouthIndia the tamils dont even know what is holi. The mallu group of students staying around college were considered as the dangerous ones by college management because of their contribution in malpractices, inter college fight fests, etc. Myself with some of my favorite batchmates were having a tea last sunday in the bakery opposite the college gate. It was evening, when one of my northIndian friend came in the bakery. I started up the conversation. '' hey bro , whats up ? "
He looked at me with a half smile and replied. " hi, nothing jz the holi celebrations " his English is difficult for us to understand because of its slang. We friends looked each other hearing its holi theoretically but practically hearing celebration. " when is holi ? " the next question was from my friend.
" Aaj chota holi hey aur kal bada. we are going out for the celebration" he finished his coke bottle, paid for it and left, leaving us a 'bye' .
Whatever be the festival celebration, it is all ours. We planned for celebrating holi in our college. Collection method for programme fund has a keralite college tradition. We started to collect money room by room and from the juniors. Finally we planned to write " HAPPY HOLI " before the college corridor. College will not even permit us to conduct the programme inside the campus. So writing 'happy holi' before the college corridor was been a risky task for us. After the fund collection and the idea planning it was too late to buy paint for the particular task. We started searching for the paint and finally got little amount of paint from a poor local man. Nearly 10 members were present to jump college gate and to write it down their in the road. We should finish the work between 11 O'clock and 12 O'clock or else police will come that way and wake the security so that every one will be caught. So as it was planned we entered the campus jumping walls and started our work at right time. As the work progressed a van came and woke the security up . He saw us doing something on road. He came near to us. Everyone was feared and i instructed them not to be panic and continue to be usual. As he came closer and closer we never even looked at his face and continued with our work. He came near and stood watching us painting. We thought he was in half sleep, but he was also drunk. By that time our staff for dicipline came out from the van. We thought it was all over and we are going to be in trouble this time. But one of my friends managed him simply saying happy holi before he interupt our work. Finally we all with the help of security and staff we compleated our work.
We left the college to sleep, thinking ' Let the problems go and come back tomarrow.
