Holi at IRMA - by Rajesh Nair (Ex Professor) [written almost 10 years ago]. I shudder at the thought of the Holi celebrations at IRMA. I remember how I once stepped out of my home through the back door in the morning of Holi in an effort in vain to escape the Scholarly Holi Brigade. I was intercepted on the roads and administered an immediate, ruthless black paste of unknown compounds mixed with mud and slurry all over of my face. Thank God, they spared my glasses. Though stained, the glasses were wearable. The GESS workers, who were mowing the lawns, paused and enjoyed every bit of this rustic, crude display of Holi fete. The thick paste felt on my face like an ayurvedic electuary, but tasted indescribably awful. The paste, I later learnt, was prepared meticulously to the routine and perfection prescribed in the ancient texts the assailants had inherited from their PRM forefathers. Before they could manage to access the rest of my body, I paced to my office under some random pretext, thinking I would be safer in there. I was anything but safe in my office. Almost two dozen members-turned-muggers from both the PRM classes (2004 and 2005) swarmed in, with paraphernalia, contrivances, mixtures, and compounds only seen or available during Holi on the IRMA campus. Those with simian propensities and spidery tendencies climbed atop my desk, or crawled the floors and walls, splashing thick slurry. Harnessed and immobilized, I made the worst blunder of pleading that I was there to mark the MDA midterm scripts, whose grades were long overdue. They retrieved the Nobel-prize winning midterm scripts, stacked them up on my desk, and sprayed a jet of muddy concoction on them, before throwing mud all over. The IRMA Estate Office was kind enough to help repaint my walls, polish my furniture, and reupholster by chair. The beneficiaries were the Class of 2004, who harvested their best MDA midterm crop that round. Holi at IRMA is horrifying to many, but it does give the scholars great fun and huge side benefits. Besides the bhangs! Holi elsewhere is not half as imaginative. Happy Holi, happiness always.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:18:53 +0000
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