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"Be the change you want to see" - Mahatma Gandhi

Last night was a great one for several reasons. To begin with we had the dusshera celebrations in the form of 'dandiya'. I had been introduced to dandiya a couple of years back when I was in Mumbai but I hadn't exactly danced till date using the 'sticks' (sorry, I couldn't find a better term). So when I went down to just watch the dandiya show, I had no idea that one of my friends (Deepti) would actually pull me in and make me dance. I found the going very tough initially but was soon comforted by the fact that there were just four basic steps - a left, a right, a side and finally a swirl in which you bring both pairs of sticks into contact and also make a revolution (may/may not be accompanied by a position change). Soon after I was in the thick of things and the dance without any sticks was the one I liked the most (Once again I forgot what they called this particular form).

Well, after nearly 2-3 hours of dandiya, the stage was set for the real party - the one where you are free to dance as you want :). The dew/fog was gradually filling up the entire place giving the night that romantic touch. Initially, the pace was pretty slow as people were a bit tired from all the dandiya. It was during this time that I had a long chat with one of my friends (Mars) on 'The life, the universe and everything'. And then it was time for me to enter the dance floor. Once on the floor, Iam usually a no-holds barred sort. I enjoy doing 'pakka' local steps for all the English songs and all MJ steps for the Punjabi ghanas. Of course the song I look forward most to in any party is 'Appadi Podu'(a Tamil song). It is a regular song in all the parties here and somehow I enjoy dancing to this song the most. Till this point of time, it was just like any other party until me and Shreyan went crazy. We tried on all sorts of goofy things while dancing (we actually sat on the floor and imitated driving a F1 car for the 'Schumacher' song; we tied our faces with the kerchief and did a blind dance). All in all it was one of the best parties I had after coming here :)

By the time it was 4.45, I was completely done. I usually retire around this time in most parties. But today, me, Shreyan and Rajesh sat down in the mess and started discussing about nothing in general. Soon enough, it meandered into a discussion about the girls (and guys) in our batch and the junior batch. Rajesh was the real 'guru' here giving us gyaan about men-women relationships. In fact, Shreyan was so impressed by the analysis that he asked him to write a book on 'Women' for which he was willing to be the editor :) And before we knew, it was 6 am in the morning. We decided it was time to crash and came out of the mess where we had a brief chat about the new names given to the hostel blocks (Sanskar, Lakshit, Sanyamit etc).


All in all, it was a great day capped by the fact that Iam writing a blog now with 'winamp' playing on the background. The only thing Iam worried about is whether I will wake up in time for lunch at 2 pm :)


P.S - Just in case u haven't figured out by now, 'Campus Update' has been abbreviated as CU in the title. We shall follow the same henceforward.

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