to APU, to VISWA n to KARI.

It was that time of the year again, when music filled the air. The corridors of FD 2 were resonating with the sound of the shruthi. The violinists were competing with eachother. The echo of the mridhangam and the sound of the salangai fought to match each others pace. There were souls running around the building through the IC corridorrs and the ref-li passage. The Veena's were shuttled between raag room and the audi. Flats were being set to position. Cots were shifted from backstage. There were nails. There were pincers. laptops. extension cords. bhujia. cookies. cake. water. sam n anc account. and there were 3 very important people who made a whole huge world of difference to everyone on campus.

APU,VISWA N KARI.

Though it was one of the more infuriating parts, I have to congratulate the 3 of them for having maintained the news abt their trip to campus a secret for more than 3 months nearly. It sure is a tough task and i guess they did a really decent job until the very end or almost until then. Ofcourse there were a couple of room mates who let out the secrcet n a few obvious lies that hinted otherwise. That apart, the "mission surprise" was almost a success story.

As i had already said, the d day had arrived. and there was still shit loads of work left to do. It does happen naturally that despite all the careful planning and meticulous scheduling of work, tension takes over and bogs u down jus when u have to take charge. This time around the org comm had all the help that they needed from 2 ex co ords in addition to the club already on campus and their dearest batchmate. Experience spoke. It was overwhelming, really!

As chak herself mentioned - " no co-ord has had it so good with 2 ex - coords making it for sangamam and literally grabbing work from her hand and seating her down and makin sure things were run smoothly".

Be it last minute sounds check or even filling a bottle of water for the dancers backstage -- they were there in a split second doing all they could do. Lots of us were lost in memories and basking in happy times and it dint take more than a minute for these people to snap us back into reality and get us to work again. The perfect blend of authority,concern,help and suggestions. It couldnt have been better. I couldnt have asked for more. None of us could have been happier.

ONE thought struck us all unanimously.

this SANGAMAM could have been better. but... it was the BEST cos of your presence.

The pre planning process seemed too long.

Your visit seemed terribly short. we were happy to let u guys see raag as it is now. happy that your dreams are now a reality. no third person can possibly understand the feeling that we experienced those 3 days.

Hated the last couple of hours. we know u guys hated it as well.

As a club we jus cant seem to put in words how much it meant to us. We find ourselves searching for words when we want to thank you.

Thank you for giving us the joy of being a part of a memorable sangamam. We owe a major part of the success story and all the smiles to the 3 of you.

I know, there have been times when we ve frowned on hearing apu's PJ's or kari's 0.3 micro farad story or viswa's silence. but we miss em all now. please do come back to campus as often as possible. u ll always have 40 others waiting to have u with them.