holi hai......abhi pata laga !!!

India has many good things that makes it stand apart from others, apart from you and me lots of festivals is one good reason. Holi the most recent one gone by.
When staying at home or in a metro, city,town, village or any civilized (as in with people around) you firstly know the right day and date, secondly with lots of people around you know what all to do to enjoy the festival, and even more you actually do it.
When you are away from civilization you miss out on all such things, the beauty of such festivals. It is at such places I realised that my biology teacher was right, man is an animal a social animal.

Right in the desert of rajasthan, i never came to know it was holi till one crew member came by with enought gulal to put tika and not more. Quite similar was the holi in college final year, just that we are a big bunch of hostelers, high on bhang preparing for it 2 days in advance.
It started with a plan to dig a hole in the hostel lawn area, fill it water so that the land becomes mushy and loose. This was the place for so called "herbal holi". The tool to dig, a board pointing towards a sapling reading" this was planted by the director of the college on some date years ago" ( the sapling not there just the board). Pulled it out and we started off.
This ended till evening, then came the preparations for bhang, went to the market could not find it openly. So bought other accessories for "thandai" then asked the mess cook to arrange bhang. he went out and brought fresh from the college back side and showed a lot of it growing there.
Holi morning, no cliched happy holi wishes or good morning, just a knock on the door and as the door opens and before you realise whats up. you are up in the air, people lifting you not for GPL but for the herbal holi bath. You are pushed and rolled and kicked and mud forced to all places you can think of, while this is on only try to save your underwear so that it does not come off, many couldn't do that.
After all have had a good face and body herbal pack, the entire group marched to the girls hostel singing the all time hits, rang barse and aaj na chodenge etc. The boys forced open the main gate but could not move ahead so in the lawns started a typical hindi film holi. With a bunch of freaked out unrecognizable, drunk and mentally unstable due to bhang, shouting dancing and throwing eggs colour on the girls standing in the 1st floor balcony, the girls reciprocating equally with enthu.
This ended with a stint with all bhang ppl having a meeting and the leader our narender tau delivering a multitopic, multilingual, nonstop, uninterrupted speech for more than an hour.
Now thats holi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!