Galaxy Remains !

What is better than watching a Galaxy? Of course being part of it :) but before I tell u more about it, here are the remaining editions of GT:
GH I
DS II
PB II
GH II

Apart from regular things like street plays, road paintings, the publicity events were a Parade and a Bhajan Singing march in which the aim was to collect as much money as u can by singing bhajans. These guys had the audacity of actually going to Dean's house and ask him for some money. I heard he bequeathed in the order of Rs. 6 to Rs 10 :), don't know who won in the end though. Lit events saw their usual crowd coming together although the events were much more experimental in nature.
I unfortunately missed the GH cul show but other two cul shows were quite impressive. There is however one observation which I cannot avoid making though I am not sure what to conclude from it. In our times, Hall 2 used to always get screwed in musicals which was the forte of Hall 3. In the play the situation was just the opposite. Even 3 years' gap was not enough to break the tradition :). DS put up an excellent play and opening but I felt it became very heavy and lacked any light element. PB had a nice choreo and some nice fillers (which they overdid and lost the effect). The two classical pieces were also wonderfully executed and a treat to listen to.
Results were not out till the writing of this post. And with the following words of Bashir Badr, Galaxy 2004 ended:

Dushmani jam ker karen lekin ye gunjaish rahe,
Jab kabhi hum dost ho jaayen to sharminda na hon.

The small part I got to play in this galaxy proved to be quite satisfying for more than one reason but it suffices to say that it was the best farewell which I could have hoped for. Since long have challenges been away from my life and what better way to embark on the next phase of ur life than to have a brush with the best that the life in past had to offer. The only thing left to say now is:

karo rukhsat hume ahal-e-chaman, ab hum to chalte hain,
Hawaayen dasht-e-nawardee ka fir paigaam laayi hain.

Comments

Anonymous said…
read ur post in hurry .
will read it in leisure later.
BTW what is Dhande.. or Dande..read this term repeatedly in galaxy postings..
Bye
August 11, 2004 at 5:16 PM
Unknown said…
Dhande is the Director of IIT Kanpur.
August 11, 2004 at 6:42 PM
Anonymous said…
The most awaited event of the Cultural programmes was the Hall-I skit for the obvious reasons.

They used to show the screening commitee at SAC a different version while actually presented a different version during the programme. Uncensored!
August 11, 2004 at 6:47 PM
Anonymous said…
Dhande is Diro I know but "Dhande shining" etc I cdn't
get.Did he bring the Galaxy back ?Then Junta sh be thankful to him..
August 13, 2004 at 12:30 PM
abhaga said…
Anon: something called sarcasm is at play here:)
August 15, 2004 at 4:12 AM
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