Satires Galore...the celebrations!!

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Well now in the moods for celebrations there is confetti in the air the trumpets blowing the adulations coming ... Dhan-Te-Nan... ( A line from the from the peppy number in Vishal Bharadwaj's Kaminey) 

This afternoon 3:15 we were ( all Niscortians) were called to the basement hall where all the World Around Programmes take place. This was no ordinary call but a call to reckon with for it was a official call for the students to celebrate the grand celebration of the National seminar...

The mood for the celebrations were made Democratic and participatory with Fr. Dean asking Students to pool in with their feedbacks and inputs.

The room was filled with silence with no student trying to give in their inputs including myself!!

Father Director presumed it to be as if there was something wrong in the event execution and perhaps this was an intelligent tactic to bring in the  talk from the students!!

I stared at Dhananjaya my brilliant partner in the last Documentation i had that somehow created history within this limited radius of Niscort when our PRINT documentation for the first time broke the compliments and adulations usually awarded to the radio spot and the video programme!!

When the question of the production of 20 err...16 mins by Niscortians being in vogue with the speech and talk of the moderator ( Mr. Amit Sengupta)  and the panelists for the day was raised Mridushmita Chaudhury ( i guess i spelt the name correct, i don't want brickbats please!!) was quick to answer that the talk was diverted from what it was directed to that is Regional resurgence and media responses.

Actually Albert Abraham, a genius NISCORTIAN in terms of all work's skill had set the mood for this answer...

He had remarked that the moderators and the panelists were shifting the focus of the talk by being reportedly what he meant as ( the speakers) symbolising the Maoists issue that the nation is facing at large...

Then followed what were redundant phrases and lines and cliches from the Dean's talk trying to bring forward as many inputs from the students part...

What seemed the best was that the Student staff relation crew on an amicable terms with Father Jackson the Registrar of the institute reportedly saying that the reason for the student's silence is because the students themselves were in the dark as far as the preparation and other formalities leading up to the event...!

George Orwell, Oscar Wilde could have saved the day of these ridiculousnesses, absurdities, kind of mud slinging and an celebration gone wrong with a reverse of " poetic justice" which can be coined as literary justice.

Albert Abraham lent some timely comic relief to the celebrations monotony by quipping, that due pain was taken by the girl students in wearing the traditional and ethnic attire, whereas he didn't even get time to shave and had to spent 80 Rs. for one in the process, i guess in the club premises itself !

Father Dejus was at his sarcastic best by starting with his much loved strains of laughter and stating that  he was startled when seeing the credits of the video programme at the end had his name whereas, he hadn't seen the actual and final product...!!

Actually as a matter of fact the students for the video production were burning the midnight oil and pooling in their expertise in video editing, shot selection and had the final video ready complementing the theme of the seminar...  

The climax to the celebrations were added with Brother Gervasius who was the brain behind in the making of the registration cards design and earning the bouquets for it...

Thereafter followed the official recognition of the other contributing students as the documenting members of the event taking the pains to stand at the camera, courtesy Anand, Dhananjaya, Fr. Vineesh and not to forget Gargi and Fr. Andrews as the compeers for the event...

The icing on the cake were the Samosas and Ladoos and tea served to the students as an appreciation for their hard work and participation...!!

Confetti, Glitterati, Champagne come one and all for there is celebration time

Dhan-Te-Nan...

with Apologies towards one and all

God Bless You all...