Enthralling Trails

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”   ―   Mahatma Gandhi Ankush kept watching the crowd skip, hop, bogie and dance spilling colours . They took pleasure in getting drenched in the colourful water, but his eyes were focussed on the square holy place where the effigy of holi was burnt last night. He had seen the crowd gather last night around the effigy, which was like a triangular cone that was painfully made from the dried stalks of wood by the gardener and  a few other employees of the apartments. This year, the environmentally conscious crowd had gathered, dried cow dung cakes to sustain the  burnt effigy for a longer time. The effigy wasn’t very large, but would definitely burn long enough . It was surrounded by bricks from the garden. The gardener was given the task of cleaning the lawns and watering the garden to keep it cool. It was a social event, a gathering after six months, to ...

“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”   ―   Criss Jami It was a bright morning, the Balewadi stadium at Mahalunge in Pune was spotted with engineering students from all over India .  The largest group belonged to the MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi who were coordinating the National Robocon in association with Doordarshan and today was the final day of the show. The huge expanse of land, the bountiful greenery and the sports arenas intermittently created  pulsating hues for the onlookers. The occasion had led numerous future engineers all over India to the air conditioned Badminton court. The court was definitely one of the largest in Ind ia , but the  stars were the  newly created Robots by 150 teams from all over Ind ia . The winner would represent the International Robocon, 2017 at Tokyo in  Japan . The teams were from IITs NITs, and many other re...