Well say what you may , but here’s a fact … Alcher is way way behind Antaragni maaan.!!!! And considering I had never heard of this fest before 2 months , I cannot even hope to imagine the magnitude and grandeur of Mood Indigo. Given here are a few snippets from my 5 day sojourn at IIT Kanpur.
Day1 - all night practice has not dampened anyone’s enthu or spirit and all eagerly look forward to the time that we leave for the station to catch the morning train. “Sampark kranti” or watever the name was not so bad as I had imagined it to be. the fact there were seventeen of us helped , we didnt have to make smalltalk to other people to pass the time. anyways , the train starts and everyone headed for the berths…… guess the first instinct was to mark their own private space lest there is squabbling later over the lower or upper berth. personally I really dont give a fuck whether I get a lower , middle or upper berth. They are same lengthwise!!!! after 3 hrs or so when everyone has their berth , tea has been had , and other trivial matters sorted out we all sat down together and well what do you call it ??? the fun started … I found out that there are certain games I never knew about , “killer-detective” is one of them . trust me , if you are ever travelling with a bunch of hotbods (we werent 
) this is the game to play. rules later…
Dumb Charades , Card games were other popular means of timepass. But for me the one that took the cake was the storytelling session ….. 
Thanks Deep for being such a sport ….. However not all people were playing games , some were catching up on years and years of sleep I guess from the way they slept at slightest of pretext… Kudos to the one who saved us from the railway pantry food and had the foresight to pack ‘poori-aloo’ for the whole contingent. last few hrs were spent sleeping and anticipating the weather at kanpur. finally at 10 o’clock the following morning we were there.
Day 2 - Kanpur is clearly quite old. You would have to completely dumb not to realize that coz the moment you step out of the train and look around , frayed and ill maintained remains of Mughal architecture stare back at you. The station itself is a dead give away. With the oppressive load on our back we started to look for volunteers from IIT Kanpur. A little bit of formalities later we decided to visit the nearby Mc Donalds to eat and use their clean toilets to fart in luxury before going to IIT K. the luggage was being looked after by our volunteers. The mall to which we went stands oddly out among old city. And though administration has tried to cover up this fact by raising similar structures in the vicinity , the ironic difference in the posh shiny mall and the dusty village roads leading up to it is hard to miss. Meal at Mcd’s was a treat by Dangra , in lieu of his intern at Reliance which he insists he will not do…. Some guys treat themselves to free helpings of deo in the adjoining shop. The idea seems great , but if you have been sweating like a pig for last 24 hrs i doubt if even the goddess of smell herself could curb ur stink ,let alone a poor deo can. Its getting late and after endless squabbles over who got icecream and who didnt , we realize that we might miss our bus to IIT K. So we head back. The heat seems lenient now that we had the 30 kg luggage off our backs. Surprise surprise !!! even DU participates in antaragni !!! apparently the hot girl and nosy bitch combo were from LSR. there were 2 other girls who were from delhi I think , perhaps Neelu would know better. Reachin there we waited for over an hour before registration was completed. But no complaints , there was so much do… The gang of colleges from various parts of country had arrived , pretty chicks roaming around with heavily muscled studs , hot bods roaming around IITK with the look that said “We know you are leering at us” , between the sea of cleavages and gym toned asses there and then the realization hit me like lightening “Fuck !!!Alcher is nowhere near this shit………, the day you get this kind of crowd and I sincerely hope that we do one day soon …….Alcher would have arrived”. As you will see later , not all of it was due to brilliance of IITK students , they just happen to have very supporting Admin and a no holds barred spons policy from what I could see. anyways back to us. We had to first carry our luggage again to the girls hostel , then tow it back to our accomodations . There were significant differences ……. the girls got a room , we got a tv room shared by 5 other teams. They had privacy , ours was invaded regularly at 9 am in the morning until 9 in the evening. chicks from other teams would lay there all day hobnobbing with their guys all day long , for GOD sake cudnt they have requested a room. Anyways the first day at IIT K was sort of settling in period… We had to make quite a few trips to the SAC to get our official IDs. Food that they provided was pretty bad. The canteen in our hostel was a dream come true though. Everything from parathas to cold coffee was available 20 hrs a day at unbelievably low prices, we are getting seriously ripped at Guwahati.
Bye for now , i will update the rest of the days in a day or two. feel free to comment
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