I am in Chennai now and this is first Dewali in Chennai . Two months back i never expected that this Dewali will be in Chennai. After three consecutive years in Calicut during my post graduate i wanted to spend this Dewali with my family in my native place; but unfortunately i didn't get leave.
You will often listen big stories about the leaves in the corporate industry. They call it as sick leaves and "Privileged" leave. You can escape from office any day using Sick leaves, one sms to manager will be enough but they are limited not more than 5-8 days in a year so people do not waste them. For the planned leaves we are supposed to take privileged leave (PL), it may be 2- 3 days to couple of weeks. Here it has been named as "Privileged" leave but mostly the privileged term is considered for organization and not you. Same happened to me, i didn't get the privilege and i am in Chennai.
Last year i was in my college NIT Calicut during Diwali. It was a dancing
dewali. Well we used to start dancing for any reason. But that evening as usual we all(my batch, juniors and sub juniors) were celebrating in the main canteen. One of my batch mate Mr. Abhay is a special personality who makes other do what he wants; sorry Abhay if u feel bad about this line but this is not in negative sense, truly speaking its a very strong quality. So every one was busy in dancing singing and what ever. But Abhay was in mood of slow dance. He started moving his body slowly and made others join him. At last the Diwali night ended as dancing dewali wid the slogan "GO SLOW". Even if someone tried to dance a bit fast, he made him move slow saying "go slow". I will check one suitable snap in my collection for this occasion and add it later.okiee i got it now itself !!
Look at him .... 'go slow' !!
Let me add few more now ........
oops ! i fully went into flash back. Actually those days were such all yours, late night movies all friends lying somewhere some how in the same room, mini canteen after 12, b'day bumps........
Okieee... how did this Diwali become delicious. Its initial days in Chennai, so do not know much about it but we heard that if you really want to enjoy the Diwali fire works in Chennai spend your evening at beach in Besant Nagar, one of the good beaches in Chennai and hanging place in weekends too. I thought of doing the same coz there wasnt much option left to enjoy the evening apart from some deep n candle lighting in the room. Again most of my new Chennai friends went home, so Vinayak was the only option left but he also didn't agree. He said,"मुझे घायल नही होना है। मैं नही जाऊंगा !" hmmmmmmmm Now the only option left was trying out something in kitchen. It was already late evening; so i rushed to spencers to get few stuffs but it didn't helped much. Next to spencer is Gupta sweets; the only sweet shop in my locality having north Indian items. While returning i ended up with two poly bag, one small one from spencer and a big one from Gupta sweets. In kitchen i tried cauliflower with lot of capsicum, poori (once till now) and sewaiyan.
May be you are thinking of where is crackers in Diwali ! Well i am not fond of crackers much from childhood itself. I hate pollution :P. Just imagine if every one starts celebrating dancing and delicious Diwali instead of crackling Diwali.
So there it was delicious Diwali !
