An eve’ with Crackers!!

After writing two articles back-to-back on Life at DCSMAT (Being with Books & the Story behind one of my most favorite photograph) few among my friends who were happy about the works, had asked me to continue writing. I was lost in thought about which extract of the memory should be next detailed in this blog. It was at that time, my dear friend Remya, came up with a suggestion that why not write about the Diwali Celebrations we had during the second year of our college life. And here it comes, an eve’ with the crackers.

In the batch of 52 students, having 8 from the Northern Province, Diwali is just like any other festival celebrated at Kerala. That exactly was the best thing about our batch, all festivals were celebrated and that too with the heights of the spirit of the day.

During our first year, we had a bash on the day of Diwali at our hostel, the Boys Hostel. Along with the boys from the senior batch, we had officially started the celebration with crackers bursting from all sides. There were most of the varieties of crackers available at the market and it was lighting up the dark sky. This went on for about 20 minutes which got the security and people living nearby awake and then a session on how we were disturbing the neighborhoods. That was disheartening and we just dropped the celebration, after a few more minutes of cracker firing.

The best part of the Diwali Celebration:

Location: in front of canteen building, DCSMAT School of Media & Business, Trivandrum.

Year: 2009!!

During the second year of our PG days, most of us (with some exceptional cases avoided) had developed an emotional bond so strong that we all preferred spending time together for the major part of the day. This attachment was the key reason that we decided to celebrate Diwali in front of the canteen, rather than our (boys) hostel ground like the previous year, which was wide open. After a typical Kerala dinner, we all stepped out of the canteen with bags of crackers and lighted candles to light the sky in different and sparkling colors.

Detailing about who fired the first cracker and how it went on and ended is quite hard but few things that happened on the day are still vivid and live in my memory. One thing is the way each one of us, boys and girls, had enjoyed firing the crackers. All of us were more or less in a straight line (as if in an assembly) and burning crackers at the same time. The light was bright enough that we could capture photographs of the celebration even without the flash on in our digital cameras. We all were going gaga over the crackers as if there is not another Diwali in the near future. I know that is crazy, but that was the way we had celebrated.

The next thing which is still in front of my eyes is the way my mad friends fired rocket crackers holding it in the hand. Now that was seriously a dare-devil act if you ask me, and I was not into the game, nor were most of the folks. But there were about 10 guys who were full-on with this. The rest of us admired at their boldness (also read as MADNESS) and made sure that they are safe. The celebration then moved further to the public road, where we had these miniature bombs being blasted which created hell lot of noise. This was the noise of signing off the celebration, which we made sure was known to the whole area. Neither was the people living by bad, they had tuned up the cracker noise in sync with ours. In short, it can be said that for about a 500 meter length everyone was having the same thought in mind – BLAST!!

The celebration got over in about 40 minutes after beginning; but unlike any Diwali celebration, it was the best I had in my 24 years of life. The days with DC -ians have always been the best and the brilliant. Love you all, if it was not for you people, I wouldn’t have learned and experienced lot many things in a short while.