Holi Hai!

I too come from a place which is tiny (not small as compared to the big cities we live in today) and has people from all over the country, hence we are accustomed to celebrate all festivals knows to the best of the efforts. But ever since I moved out to pursuit higher education to Pune, I realized how much I missed that waiting in anticipation of these festivals, sleepless nights in preparing, getting all crazy to celebrate everything to last breath, friends, family, everything. Now I was at a different part of the country, which was not as cosmopolitan as my Jamshedpur was, even though it was too big as compared to Jamshedpur; Pune had its own culture and following. Every year when Durga Puja came we frowned and when Ganapati came we joined Maharastra to show our affection to celebrate festivals. The advantage that I had in Pune was a enthusiastic friend circle, an extended family, all from same place, with same sentimates about festivals and same cheerfulness when it comes to mingle. But now I am a differnt part again. A different world, different customes and more improtantly no friends, this is Hyderabad. It has a color and a following which I dont understand and moreover since I belive a company and at times a knonw crowd is needed too to celebrate or enjoy things. I am not that inclined to go to privately organised commercial parties for all these festivals.
So this year when Holi came, I had a company, my wife, but again holi is best celebrated if you have a bunch of people. I dont feel the urge any more for all these, but since my wife is also very very inclined to play holi (but for her, she needs to accept that the life she led has changed, and now she's away from friends and family). So I decided to do atleast something. Eveyone kept asking about my wife's first holi plans too.
We, a group of 5 people, along with me and my wife had a plan to go out to a party, which dint materialize, hence the day started with my wife packing lunch box for me,. Amit packing lunch box for himself, and Anup arriving office before time. Finally something got into me, and I decided to do something better, so I went out and got some color (left Indu thinking that I might have gone to smoke) and came back to show her what holi could be. I painted her red, yellow, blue, violet and green. Then Parul called suddenly asking me to do something to make Amit stop from going to office since all her pleas have been rejected (I mean can a friend stop you from doing something if your wife could not?, I guess yes). So Amit stopped, and me and Indu arrived at their place, only to find them colored but somewhat very very decently as compared to what we had in our faces. So we colored them too and the next plan was to come to office, get Anup out and color him so much so that he cant continue working for the day, and we just did as that and along with Anup we colored Satya too and to great pleasure of us they were not allowed enter the office premises again (Building management policy). Then we headed to one of Parul's relatives and it was fun there too, and then some snacks on the way and back to home.
Back in home we could not think of anything and just the bed, even though we had long evening ahead coz I had invited all these folks home for dinner. It was 4:30PM and we decided to take quick nap to refresh ourselves, get up, bath, go and shop for items required for the night. We did just that and again my bad luck caught with me, when the shop for paper plates was closed, tyre got flattened right infront of a repair shop which was closed, so I had to drag the bike for good 1 Km to get it repaired in a petrol bunk (where it seemed everybody wanted air to be checked in their vehicles that day only). Ah, it drained me again, and then vegetables and then back home. Me and Indu finished all the stuff in record one and half hour with precise planning, and meticolous co-ordination, but alas bad luck again, and the gas goes off. Thankfully all was done except rice which we could get from outside. A nice meal followed with beers and then a nice winding night where I was too much unable to move out of the fatigue.
Overall a good holi, and atleast coz of the adventures evening Indu will remember her first Holi.