COLORS OF RAINBOW

FAST ASLEEP IN MY HOSTEL ROOM AND ENJOYING RAIN IN MY DREAMS, SUDDENLY I NOTICED THAT ALL MY CLOTHES ARE WET. I WOKE UP AND FOUND MYSELF SURROUNDED BY MY FRIENDS SPRINKLING COLORS FROM

WATER GUNS. ALL OF THEM HAD A BUCKET FULL OF COLORED WATER.

FINDING MYSELF AND MY BED SHEET COLORED LIKE A RAINBOW, FIRST I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO REACT WHEN I HEARD ''BURA NA MAANO HOLI HAI ''AND THE DAY OF HOLI FESTIVAL STARTED WITH A BANG.

NOW IT WAS MY TURN. I HAD ALSO BEEN MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR HOLI AND HAD KEPT MANY BAGS OF DRY COLOR IN MY ALMIRAH. I AND MY FRIEND TOOK THAT OUT AND STARTED PAINTING ALL WITH THIS. SOON ALL OF US WERE LOOKING LIKE GHOSTS AND NOBODY COULD RECOGNIZE THE OTHER PERSON.

TAKING ALL OUR MATERIAL WITH US WE KNOCKED AT EVERY DOOR IN THE HOSTEL AND SOON A GROUP OF ABOUT HUNDRED GHOSTS WAS DANCING AND ENJOYING IN THE HOSTEL.

WE WENT TO OUR HOSTEL WARDEN MR. PANT. HE WAS A VERY NICE PERSON AND OFFERED US TEA AND GUJIYA. EACH OF US TOUCHED HIS FEET AND APPLIED COLOR ON HIS FOREHEAD.

THEN WE ALL RUSHED TO GIRLS HOSTEL.THERE, GIRLS WERE APPLYING COLORS ON EACH OTHER'S CHEEKS VERY GENTLY. WITHIN FEW MINUTES OF OUR REACHING THERE IT WAS ANOTHER GROUP OF ABOUT FIFTY FEMALE GHOSTS.

AFTER THAT WE HAD A ROUND OF CITY ON BIKES AND ENJOYED THE COLORS OF HOLY AND MERRY MOOD OF PEOPLE.

IN THE AFTERNOON WE RETURNED TO OUR HOSTEL. THERE WE SAW FEW OF OUR FRIENDS DRINKING BHANG DRINK. THEY FEW OF THEM WERE NOT IN THEIR SENSES AND WERE BEHAVING VERY FUNNY. WE ENJOYED THAT MOMENT TOO WITH THEM.

TWENTY YEARS SINCE I LEFT THE HOSTEL, I STILL ENJOY THE FESTIVAL OF HOLI OF ALL THE OTHER FESTIVALS. I STILL WAIT FOR THIS FESTIVAL BUT THE HOLI CELEBRATION OF HOSTEL IS SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL AND ONE OF MY CHERISHED MEMORY.