Finally it’s a day before “Holi” and also the last day of illegal bombardment.hehee….
And its already spring. “Welcome Spring 2008″!!!
Happy Holi to all and wish your life be filled with all the bright colors of holi.
Enjoy and do let me know about the way you celebrated hai.:)
Category: Holi 2008
Students @ the other side….I always envy not being so much politically aware as the students in the government college .I see them actively involved in the protest against petroleum hikes, for the consumer rights, in the active politics of the country. I too have gathered some knowledge regarding the current situation with the curriculum in my college. This is for to let us think the change agents of the society can also be turned out to be like this. Holi has rather taken the form of rather ill practice overlapping its pure and colorful belief. The same students who are seen protesting in the streets are seen these days in the terrace of renowned college “TC” to throw the water bombs to the girls and ladies passing from Jamal stop. I was walking through the sky bridge to get my tempo to my college and heard someone passing me the comment that ” Lau abo majja le lola khane bhayo ani ramrari bhijincha pani “which meant “huh she is gonna get good hit of water bombs and will get fully wet”. How ridiculous is that!!! Those guys assumed the condition of girls and ladies passing through that lane of about 25 metres. The distance had piles of plastics scattered and water all over.I could hear two ladies cursing them for one of them had faced the water bomb and them hurrying towards their office.I wonder these students have once strike for the environment protection and had protested in front of the office of safe drinking water. These students need to be the ones protesting the ill phenomenon of Holi rather they are standing as 5 feet tall wall over the terrace. It’s an agony. In Aajtak today I heard of the news in which one brother and sister got beaten severely in the Delhi bus stop when the brother rebelled against the rowdy boys throwing colors and water to his sister.If these sorts of activities are continued then the day’s not far Katmandu valley and the other cities of the country start facing similar incident as that of Delhi incident.
Holi Re….
It was fabulous wedding party and we enjoyed it. We were then returning home .It was 4pm then. It was at Ason the centre of capital where one boy hit us with plastic full of water. The pain was in one part while the stinking water on our “clean” dress was so pathetic. In lack of clean drinking water at least in the valley I just can assume the water filled must be either from the underground tube well or water collected in the drainage. Valley people are these days used to with the alternate day of tap water supply and useless pump machine in absence of electricity. I turned back to scold those boys with water bombs rather they were teasing us using foul words. Gosh!!! We again headed our way. Then comes another shot and fortunately it was missed.
I turned the calendar as soon as I reached home to see when HOLI, the festival of color was but these days it is rather the bombardments of water pouch with rather stinking water that too before so many days. It was from the discussion with my frens that I got to know that these bombardments have already been started in every nook and corner and it’s high time to be safe from those.
The spot when the water bombs can be noted easily while walking with the splashes and the plastics around. The exact spot would be mouth of volcano and the splashes would be molten lava thus the around territory would be dangerous zone for me. My heart starts pounding when I walk around that zone and there are reasons for that. Several examples of previous holi just screens before me. The latest one was hard splash over my face leaving my power glasses broken on the road. I was out of my mind due to pain and was numb. Guessed it was somewhere from the skyscrapers building where people walking on the road would look like petty insects for some of the so called social animals habituated of inhumane behaviors.
I could see boys walking so comfortably with the water bombs in their hands and posing threats to the females passing nearby. The hits are also targeted to sensitive parts of female body which depicts a kind of mental and sexual harassment towards females. Some of the female would really turn back to give tight slap to the bomb attackers though. Most of the attackers would be in groups and they would act as a gang to harass the females if in turn they give harsh respond to the bomb attackers. The people around would either remain quite or simply enjoy the “happening” scene or in some case they would give evil stare to the female instead.
Abira ya holi..ta chaya lya lyase….Abira changu khwa hysi dyekabi
This Newari song would be just song in the days to come and the way people playing with full of joy with multi colors is being overlapped by the pain and agony. I have started hating the festival; I too pick up stones nearby to hit or at least to threaten “no option left right?”
Sumeruh
