Rain Rain Rain!

"Rain is grace; 

 Rain is the sky descending to the earth; 

 Without rain, there would be no life." 

             -John Updike

Ethnic Day at Acharya College

After wearing college uniform for long, it's Colourful day again!!
Today was the Ethnic Day at Acharya Institute of Technology.

It is being said that Acharya is the college which have students from 25 different countries all around the world. Quite impressive! But when all these students gather in college compound in their own ethnic wear, just imagine, how colourful will it looks
And yeah, it was quite amazing out there...

 "Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense."

                                                                                                                            - Dalai Lama

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
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Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
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"We need to help students & parents cherish and preserve the ethnic & cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation." - Cesar Chavez

Is it ok! ;)

Dancing in own style!

 Classic

Holi: The festival of Colour

Holi is a spring festival also known as the festival of colours & love. It is celebrated with enthusiasm and gaiety on the full moon day in the month of Phalgun which is the month of March as per the Gregorian calendar. Though it is related with religious concept, people celebrate this festival to forget all the pain & stress of life involve in colourful day. It is the day where all family members gather together and wish each other.

Preparations:

"Entire country wears a festive look when it is time for Holi celebration. Market places get abuzz with activity as frenzied shoppers start making preparations for the festival. Heaps of various hues of gulal and abeer can be seen on the roadside days before the festival. Pichkaris in innovative and modern design too come up every year to lure the children who wish to collect them as Holi memorabilia and of course, to drench everybody in the town.

Womenfolk too start making early preparations for the holi festival as they cook loads of gujiya, mathri and papri for the family and also for the relatives. At some places specially in the north women also make papads and potato chips at this time." - source: http://www.holifestival.org

The Water Ballon, Colourful powders, Water Guns (pichekari), Bhang, musics are the few attractive ingredients of this fest.

Season of Bloom:

"Everybody gets delighted at the arrival of Holi as the season itself is so gay. Holi is also called the Spring Festival - as it marks the arrival of spring the season of hope and joy. The gloom of the winter goes as Holi promises of bright summer days. Nature too, it seems rejoices at the arrival of Holi and wears its best clothes. Fields get filled with crops promising a good harvest to the farmers and flowers bloom colouring the surroundings and filling fragrance in the air." - source: http://www.holifestival.org

"Don't Mind, It's Holi!" :
During Holi, practices, which at other times could be offensive, are allowed. Squirting colored water on passers-by, dunking friends in mud pool amidst teasing and laughter, getting intoxicated on bhaang and reveling with companions is perfectly acceptable. In fact, on the days of Holi, you can get away with almost anything by saying, "Don't mind, it's Holi!" (Hindi = Bura na mano, Holi hai.

Animals have SOUL

Animals have soul. After going deep inside it's eye, I found it!!!

Giant ELEPHANT

The Giant and Innocent:

When I was passing through a park,  during our journey to Ooty (South India), we saw these giant elephants with their master. Really, these elephants look amazing while bathing

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come - seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”
                                             - Peter Matthiessen, The Tree Where Man Was Born

“Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There's bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.”

                                                                              - Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Small as an Elephant

It's Millipedes!

Millipedes are herbivores. It does not really have 1,000 legs! In fact millipedes can only have up to 710 legs. The centipede only has one pair of legs per body segment.