First Water Fight of the Year

It all started in the E-Block (Now known as Ayush), the place where all the devils of PGP1 reside. One can always see it coming. The day was special and so should be the night. It was Day-2 of the summer placement process for PGP1 and the Placom announcement in the Seminar Hall that night of the fact that all the people got placed and there won’t be any rolling process set it up. It was also followed by an announcement of a party by the Culcom (Sanskrit-I as they call it now) Secretary, but was it alone sufficient to divert the flow of excitement across the two batches??? Well, I doubt it, after all how many times do you really put in your efforts and how many times are you rewarded for your efforts and that too on such a grand scale.

The mail from Hostelcom at 11:30 p.m. inviting both the batches for a huge water fight said it all, no further impetus needed. It started almost immediately, the culprits being the E-Block residents and it quickly swept through in entirety across every hostel blocks, the connecting or common points became the battleground. One such battlefield was the Mess-Melting Pot corridor where what started as the battle between the two batched ended up in the survival of the fittest, where individuals scurried in armed with buckets and mugs and jugs. Then started the dragging round which started with the dragging of SWAC members through the watery mess in front of the Mess showered alternately with hot water from the geysers and cold water from the water coolers, with SWAC-C being the last member of SWAC to be dragged. By that time the empty water coolers forced to treat the general public too with similar vigour.

By this time, the water fight was in full swing in the other blocks too, not to mention the “cross” (The junction between A-block (Sanskar) boys’ and girls’ hostels at the common staircase).

The party lasted for around one and a half hour and was followed by a Culcom which as usual simply rocked with even the Placom members in an excited state. It’s a different thing that all this fun reflected in the attendance and participation in the class the very next day, but that is another story and a pretty routine one too…