Black Day

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
I still can't recall why we picked Black. The last time the girls in the group, had organized an ethnic day (which was incidentally my initiative), I cud not participate for personal reasons (my darling paty expired). Being naturally enthusiastic about wearing a saree to the workplace, I tempted the girls to have another ethnic day. This time around, it was a "Theme day" or we thought we cud all wear clothes of the same colour. So whatz the most common color ..... yep BLACK !!!! I think this thought came to cause co-incidentally the movie BLACK was running in the theatres and I was so pre-occupied with watching it.

So my dear friend archana (archu as we call her) triggered the whole event .... WE WEAR BLACK on the 9th MARCH, 2005. Excitement had no limits, Roopa got herself a new Black Shirt. Valli had to make sure her salwar was pressed. Goody .... everyone seemed to be on the move.

Come the 7th, archu called a small conference in her cubicle. 8th is Women's day, letz prepone the celebration to the 8th .... Sounds wonderful .... But then ... 8th is Shivratri too (Shivratri, the holy festival of the Hindus, commemorating Lord Shiva, the destroyer).Nandu or nandini said, no way she was wearing BLACK on shivratri. She would rather appease the "destroyer". So the plans were back to the 9th ....

The sun dawned on the 9th ... and it was BLACK day in the BSC Team @ sasken. BLACK day was rather a contradiction here ... were we celebrating womanhood ... psst .... it was just to break the monotony.

A treat for the eyes, the bachelors' in the team ... missed a heartbeat (;-) ok chetan said that) ... it was the GIRLS in BLACK .....Hema looked gorgeous in a lovely salwar-kameez with exquisite embroidery, Soumya and Ramya in dashing black salwars, valli and anu in a green and red combo respectively, nandu in a full black salwar, preetha was donned with polka dots against the black background of her kameez, archu was ravishing in saree (me too inferior in comparison). And the most important person, roops was indeed roopavanthi in her black trousers and black full arm shirt. I must give it to her, its she who celebrated "Black Day" to the tee !!!!! The two people missing are Asha and Deepa, sadly ill today !!

At 5, we are gonna have a photoshoot. Its 5:15 and no one is budging from their seats. A queer dedication to the work all of a sudden.We gathered ppl around my cube, but anu and preetha were missing, coffee i suppose. Two cameras, one of archu's friendz and the other belonged to nalin. Flashes, flashes everywhere, oops hope no one from the security notices us. In some time, when the whole crowd gathered, we had a few sessions at the magical hands of partha (who i learnt lately has taken up professional photography).There ends another exciting day, which was so bright due the energies and smiles of one and all, that it was no where near anything BLACK. hurray !!!!!