A Rendezvous with Memories
College festivals have played an integral role in all our lives.They were eagerly awaited not only because they provide a welcome break from the rigmarole of the morose college life but also because they were a perfect occasion for M&As(mergers and accquisitions)....and then also , in Sultanpur people wanted something more than the regular Shri , Mehmaan and a Cool Home and the festival sort of provided a warrant for us excuse me , them to walk around(for some lucky ones hand in hand) with members of the fairer sex and for gurls to flaunt their latest pair of jeans(now gurls please dont get going at this...).
My association with these festivals started way back in my hay school days, "inter-institutional" as it was known then and St. Joseph's was always the permanent host simply because we had the biggest auditorium among all schools in Allahabad , though we always drew a lot of flak every year for organising the festival and then virtually emerging as the over-all champions too.The festival used to be huge in scale as well as participation.The most sought after participants were of course , our neighbouring campus St.Mary's.Two days of festival and for these two days St. Mary's would flock in full attendance to St. Joseph's and the big question used to be as to who would be incharge of the gurl's green room....The most looked-on event was of course ,the fashion show and believe me they were really so well executed and choreographed ...so much detail went into them that they r tons better than all the live shows and the ones i have seen on tv and very interestingly one of those very people is busy fighting it out to make it to Milan in Lakme Fashion House these days on Star ONE.But the festival never ended after the prize-distribution ceremony.There were celebrations and brickbats...lots of accounts to be settled between St. Joseph's and our utmost rival school Boy's High...some pissed off as to how did one even dared to look at his girlfriend while the other over some event's result.But it used to be one big fun and really one can look back and say "those were the days....".
Back at KNIT,i have lots of memories of Effulgence, a festival of a magnitude KNIT had never seen before and a festival known more for reasons than it should not have been known for.A celebrity nite , Sixer-the mixed cricket(boys and gurls playing together) for the first time which became a permanent fixture from there on with forget Sports Council , forums like Electrum(Electrical Engg) and ISTE fighting it out as to who would take the onus of organising it ,the PFAC exhibition with its rangoli and mehandi competition which had more boys than girls as its participants, the first of its kind open-air Cultural Nite and some trite seniors-prepare-it-you-present-it paper presentations thrown around here n there.In fact even the paper presentations were tweaked in to bring in an element of glamour and arouse curiosity..yes we had another first , boys and gurls giving papers together...aur phir march ki tapti dhhop mein jaakar cybercafe mein google search karte hue hamare couples ka paye jaana...Neway KNIT for the first time paid host to a celebrity so huge as Shibani Kashyap so naturally , she had her own share of starry tantrums and that is another long story in itself...after much f*** n all she finally made an apperance on the stage and the show was an instant hit till someone in a jovial Holi mood threw some gulal around and the show was called off....Oh ! How badly i wish i can live those moments again..
"Le chalein
Le chalein
Yaadon ke kafile."
My association with these festivals started way back in my hay school days, "inter-institutional" as it was known then and St. Joseph's was always the permanent host simply because we had the biggest auditorium among all schools in Allahabad , though we always drew a lot of flak every year for organising the festival and then virtually emerging as the over-all champions too.The festival used to be huge in scale as well as participation.The most sought after participants were of course , our neighbouring campus St.Mary's.Two days of festival and for these two days St. Mary's would flock in full attendance to St. Joseph's and the big question used to be as to who would be incharge of the gurl's green room....The most looked-on event was of course ,the fashion show and believe me they were really so well executed and choreographed ...so much detail went into them that they r tons better than all the live shows and the ones i have seen on tv and very interestingly one of those very people is busy fighting it out to make it to Milan in Lakme Fashion House these days on Star ONE.But the festival never ended after the prize-distribution ceremony.There were celebrations and brickbats...lots of accounts to be settled between St. Joseph's and our utmost rival school Boy's High...some pissed off as to how did one even dared to look at his girlfriend while the other over some event's result.But it used to be one big fun and really one can look back and say "those were the days....".
Back at KNIT,i have lots of memories of Effulgence, a festival of a magnitude KNIT had never seen before and a festival known more for reasons than it should not have been known for.A celebrity nite , Sixer-the mixed cricket(boys and gurls playing together) for the first time which became a permanent fixture from there on with forget Sports Council , forums like Electrum(Electrical Engg) and ISTE fighting it out as to who would take the onus of organising it ,the PFAC exhibition with its rangoli and mehandi competition which had more boys than girls as its participants, the first of its kind open-air Cultural Nite and some trite seniors-prepare-it-you-present-it paper presentations thrown around here n there.In fact even the paper presentations were tweaked in to bring in an element of glamour and arouse curiosity..yes we had another first , boys and gurls giving papers together...aur phir march ki tapti dhhop mein jaakar cybercafe mein google search karte hue hamare couples ka paye jaana...Neway KNIT for the first time paid host to a celebrity so huge as Shibani Kashyap so naturally , she had her own share of starry tantrums and that is another long story in itself...after much f*** n all she finally made an apperance on the stage and the show was an instant hit till someone in a jovial Holi mood threw some gulal around and the show was called off....Oh ! How badly i wish i can live those moments again..
"Le chalein
Le chalein
Yaadon ke kafile."
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