Let the festival begin

    Tomorrow is the first day of our two day fest.The fest contains different competitions from dance to drama,advertising to finance and much more. While there was this festival even last year but I was too disinterested and lazy to attend all the programs or participate in them.
     Although I am still not going to participate in them, I am going to try to attend them.Festivals have been an integral part in colleges since a long time. Every Year in our festival there is a German festival organized by the Department of german and their students(ie.us). While last year was about the famous German things(places,food,industries), this year we are going to do the exhibition on Berlin. There are many interesting places in Berlin we never knew about and this exhibition shows them. There are many models made by my classmates which are amazing. While many are putting hard work in projects , others are doing the groundwork.Funnily I have never seen such enthusiasm and hard work of students in college before.
      This has been the story of last week where we are just discussing about projects without forgoing time,lectures and studies for a whole week in college. The two day festival is starting tomorrow and I hope it rocks or at least our exhibition must rock( Just kidding, everything must go smoothly for all activities and programs.Just hoping). Just to clear things, this post is not an advertisement for the festival(by the way it can be a great ad for it!!) but just an insight about college festivals for the new college students and the school students who would ave such festivals in your colleges. Nothing else to write so signing out.
                                                                                                                            Aniruddha

A Window to Life

 I realised that nowadays we have grown fond of observing and admiring the nature from the comfort of our house. The show of colours in the sky at the twilight, or in the morning, the  Sun rays passing through the clouds or spread over in the clear sky, the shapes of clouds, or the raindrops falling, or the rains approaching from the distance, captivates us. The twitter of birds, every sound of birds( other than pigeons of course!!) draws our attention. Be it the  Kingfisher or bharadwaj, bulbuls, nigtingales, parrots , dayals- if you are lucky you might hear them sing, or some fantails,  or the cute little squirrels that are seen right in front of our windows eating the almond fruit or the jambhool or the coconut flowers , their style leaves us amused and we go out of the way to observe them. The ghar or kite, circling around, with all the pigeons and crows trying hard to shoo it away with all their combined might is sight worth seeing.

As Milind mentioned in shibir, we are now aware of the trees growing and blossoming around us and the big difference that it has made to the quality of our walk. We can appreciate the beauty of the blossoming laburnum, the Kanchan, the Karanja,the gulmohur, the rain tree, or the fragrance of Kailaspati,chafa, anant, mogra, parijatak, madhumalati or ratrani or for that matter fragrance of mango mohur. All these trees are seen in ample around our Pandurang wadi

A few days back, Saniya came running with the news that a Red Pierrot was sitting on our Tulsi Plant.We were all so happy and exited we clicked the photos from diff angles. Then again one day there was another butterfly seen on flowers in our flower bed and all of us enjoyed seeing it having a breakfast in our house! We have constructed a flower bed and planted plants which will attract butterflies. The rest of the people in our building have converted this space into additional living room area. We are really happy that we did not feel the need to do so in place like Mumbai where every inch is utilised for living space. The pleasure of gardening, of seeing the plants grow and blossom ,  the lessons from the nature are all worth it.

Isn't this Life?

After a long long time

bamboo pit viper

     Sorry for not contributing for a long time. After a really long wait I went to yeoor,on a sunday morning. August had set in well,and made its presence felt by putting bursts of light showers which interupted that pleasant sunshine. At every corner there was something new,something unexpected and something more adventurous than previous waiting. Like a bamboo pit viper (which another group had rescued) hanging and curling itself against those green branches which mask his presence. Or a blue oakleaf, flying past as it flashes its blue upperwings,making it hard to miss it.

blue oak leaf

acacia blue

yamfly 

A nice video on Postures.

Regards
Have  a  wonderful time


Shailaja

Hi,

Sharing a beautiful Sand Art Video.

Enjoy!!!!

:-)

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Good Times at MMB

  Yesterday was the end of two exhibition at Max-Mueller Bhavan(MMB). The exhibition was organized by an organization named Mathematikum(An German organization which organizes exhibition about maths around the word) of Mathematics for school kids(6th to 10th Std children).I had volunteered for the exhibition for the first week(it was from 23th july to 3rd august). Everyday schools would bring children to see the exhibition and we had to take games of maths and tell them about the principle behind the game.
The games were not only interactive but challenging also(on some even we were clueless).Interacting with many students learning in different languages and coming from different background was an experience. Travelling by train to churchgate for a week was fun but tiring sometimes.
   Overall an awesome week ended and I am back to my daily schedule(and college).Signing out
                           
                                                                                                          Aniruddha