INDIAN Premier League...

9 teams

12 venues

54 days

76 matches

The IPL is here.

But which team do you support?

I had never asked this question to myself and never would have, if, today morning, my roommate would not have said “Delhi Daredevils at heart “. She being from Hyderabad, her words were a bit shocking for me.

It made me start thinking that in Delhi, there are so many outstation people. Considering my gang, for example, only two of my friends are Delhi-ites but still all of us love watching IPL matches together. All of us are from different parts of the country – Hyderabad , Ludhiana , Lucknow, Pondicherry , Kerala, Manipur  and so on , but still team rivalry never creep up .

Somewhere, someplace it does become ironical, that no one supports their respective states’ IPL team. We all end up cheering for Delhi.

Maybe my roommate is right – we met here, we live here, we roam here, we enjoy here, Delhi has become our life. So, it doesn’t matter that we don’t support our state teams, for we celebrate when our team wins – whether it’s Delhi, Mumbai or Punjab.

For that’s what IPL is all about – Bringing people closer (and of course entertainment).

So who Do I support Now – INDIA!

1 country

28 states

7 union territories

1.22 billion population

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Kriti Anand is a second year student pursuing Economics honours from Shri Ram College of Commerce. She is passionate about writing and reading. You will find a good collection of books with her. She loves exploring new places, making new friends and loves chatting with them. She gets inspiration from the group she is surrounded by.

PARTIES AHOY!!

The second semester...and anyone would be ready to agree with me that the going gets tougher by the day. Even though we get free time but it’s usually spent in a frenzy, writing on file sheets and assignment copies. This semester is less on casual outings and the next semester would be stricter.  My seniors don’t waste one moment in telling me how cruel and heartless the professors in the next year would be. I can’t even shoot down this notion as I have seen many of them crying in the corridors because of some or the other punishment. Oh well…! In all this doom only one thing kept all of us alive: my best friend’s approaching birthday, who happens to be the C.R. and is dear to us all.  We just HAD to give her a surprise party! Not bragging, but I have an awesome brain when it comes to thinking of surprises. It all started a month before the date and I started collecting video clips from all my classmates wishing her happy birthday and expressing what they feel about her. I wished to make it into a long movie and present the CD to her. Trust me, it’s a pretty difficult task when half the population is camera shy and the other half is busy with something or the other. Her mother had called us over to an afternoon lunch and we were thrilled!! On her birthday we all hugged her tight and gave her our individual gifts and made a move towards her place. The lunch was lip smackingly awesome and her parents and siblings were very hospitable and sweet. My friend broke into tears when she saw the movie as she had never really had anyone gift her something so personal and that required so much of time and energy. She hugged us all again and so did her mother as even she was very touched. It was the greatest break from the monotonous life we were leading. I would say the best part was the time when we were travelling in the Metro, the chatter and the laughter would have very well brought the roof down! We talked of the most random and idiotic topics and reveled in the weird looks we got.

The euphoria of that day took a week to fade. Just when we were going to slip into our gray scales again a notice arrived with the news of a trip to ‘Adventure Island’ and we were alive again! Most of the class agreed to go there and it was like static in the whole classroom.  When we were thinking that these are going to be the only good things happening in this month, yet another notice appeared which said that our second years are giving an unofficial farewell to the third years and performances and games have to be prepared. It was like all my dreams had come true! Me and my friend prepared a sequence packed with the most recent Bollywood songs and the best of Hollywood. It was fantastic!! On the farewell day everyone was dressed in their best and the usual Shaheed Rajguru geeky girls had transformed into Runway supermodels. We had the usual vote of thanks and each and every third year was given a cheeky title. The seconds years were enthusiastic as they were the hosts and their eyes gleamed when they saw all the third years enjoying so much. And each and every third year had a big grin on their faces. As for us, the first years, we were anxious as next year the present second years would be expecting something better for their farewell!!

Me and my friend performed our sequence and ended with the whole class erupting in a wild cheer and hooting. The whole hall was converted into a discotheque when all the teachers had left and we danced to our heart’s content. Later on we were served burgers and puffs and ample amount of cold drink and each and every person in that room was as happy as anyone could be. The boring and completely sad month became the one which would keep us going for a long time. Three cheers to college life!! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, HURRRRAYYYY!!!   

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Tulika Banerjee is a student of Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women. She is very passionate about everything she does... she loves to write, sing, dance, paint, speak so on and so forth!! Her friends love her because she loves them A LOT! She generally takes charge of stuff and sees that they are done properly. She is affectionate, strong and a voracious reader. Life is fun for her and exploring it is her job. She hopes that she can grow up well and achieve all her goals.