So who WON???

All from my Quadrant, I hope you can see the Winners Cup in between

India is a land of variety, with different languages, religions, geography, lifestyles, and cultures. However we still cling to each other with an indistinguishable frame called Indianism. And this was the theme of the traditional day and Quadrant decoration competition that held in my office on last Friday…

My desk is on the fifth floor at my office and the floor is divided into four quadrants, you can say four rooms probably 5000 sq feet each, with some passages, cabins for higher management, conference halls and meeting rooms collating the four quadrants as one floor. The theme of decoration was four parts of India – East, West, South and North India. My Quadrant was East India, and people here made it so much over-decorated; It appeared to me as so much Jhanky panky... all golden, silver, red, yellow, green, blue… they made it something like the proverb “Leave No stone unturned” as in “Leave no colour unused”… We used all those colorful paper ribbons, netted cloth called as “chunnar”, specific items from East India were pasted on the pillars, we also fashioned a Durga Devi’s mandir which added some extra points and painted a Rangoli on the floor, every desk was ornamented with different flowers, and finally gave it an IT punch with a PPT presentation which was all time running on the 48 inches of Samsung LCD on the wall opposite the entrance door and was screening Unity in Diversity with beautiful pictures and information about East India… Well, Sorry I don’t have any pics clicked of my beautiful quadrant as Cams are not allowed in our office, you know *highly secured area*… :D

All the Quadrants were so marvelously decorated that I assumed them to look like an Indian Bride *Dulhan*, with all that blushing on her face…

Q1 – I called my Quadrant as a South Indian Bride, who wore so much of jewelry that it touched her navel…in short half of her body is glittering with so much of gold, that at the time of wedding, all the attendees would be busy counting how much kilos of gold she is wearing…

Q2 – Quadrant opposite to ours was a Maharashtrian Dulhan for me, born in a middle class family, having jewelry half foot long, just covering her cleavage… (Guess her parents working in my Techm, so the pathetic salary is not allowing them to soak their bride in gold)

Q3 – To its right was surely a wedding in a poor family who earn just to fulfill the 3 basic necessities of life *roti–kapda–makan*… Opps, are we forgetting the fourth necessity s** (plzz wait, don’t go into your dreamy world now, complete my post and then continue with your reverie) So my Q3, it gave the impression that bride’s family is not so well to do and groom’s family did not contributed in the wedding so it was so less decorated. :D (Imagine Bride’s family to be the poor employees like us and the Groom’s family to be the management guys *bade log*)

Q4 – And the last Quadrant was my frv8… it looked like a wedding in Church; Bride dressed up in a attractive white gown… waaoo… it was decorated with different colours of balloons, the colour combination was all decent and classy… you can say Ekta Kapoor’s party decoration theme was used.

So who WON??

Needless to say, Of course it has to be Appu’s Quadrant, right?? East India takes the cup… ha ha… one thing we learn from this incident… If you crave for awards, you need to be more glamorous and expose yourself as much as you can *Guys, don’t take the literal meaning*…

We also had awards for a lady and gentlemen who wore best traditional attire… You are correct, Appu was looking The Best… but she didn’t wear something that would fall under East India… and the award was not for looking stunning but for how authentically you get ready… however both the awards were grabbed by colleagues in my Quadrant… yea, but as to avoid the word partiality, judges made a fare decision by sharing the Gentleman award with a Punjabi dressed up guy from Maharashtrian Bride… So in short all the awards were lined up in Appu’s Quadrant… ha ha… winning gesture for me…

So here are some pics of traditional day, as I told you no camera’s so pics are not that good, however bearable… People having photogenic face would always look good (this is not apne mu miya mitthu)… wink wink…

Its Me...

Winning Lady - Anuja

Winning Guys, to the left from my Q - Swastid

Ethnic Walk ( with no Ramp :(( )

PS. It was all so Fun... A happening break from daily routine... :)