Nawabs of IPMX
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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| Prof. Archana, Chairperson IPMX |
Nawabs of Lucknow and Nizams of Hyderabad are long gone but they have left behind a legacy which still throbs in many parts of India. One living and soaring example of this legacy is ‘Kite flying’. Historians believe that Kite-Flying was brought in India by Chinese and was popularized by the Nawabs and the Nizams (thanks to exponentially more idle time than they knew what to do with J).
Now, why I am talking about Kite-Flying and Nawabs is because it seems that students of IPMX batch have also got some traces of this hobby of Nawabs, lurking somewhere deep down in their hearts.
On the eve of Independence Day, the idea of kite-flying fidgeted, wriggled and kicked inside some of us and manifested itself in the decision that we would celebrate Independence Day by flying kites.
No sooner was the decision taken than helter-skelter kites, spools and maanjha were arranged and at 10 am a battalion of pseudo Nawabs, equipped with shades and cameras, marched towards basketball court. Those who were adept in the art of kite flying took to the strings and those who have tried everything from applying Bernoullie’s theorem to aerodynamic analysis in order to fly a kite but still cannot fathom the secret formula to get it up in the air contented themselves with just holding spools.
Those of you who have tried their hands at kite-flying would know that the real fun is in penchbaazi. My personal theory regarding penchbaazi is that it is an amicable transaction between two parties which follows the double entry system – at the end of the transaction the frustration on one side is exactly matched by the satisfaction on the other side. Oh boy, is it too much Corporate Finance doing some chemical locha in my brain?
After one and half hour of fierce battle among kites for domination of the sky, the Big J (Gaurav Jalote) emerged victorious with team of Santosh Rout and Saurabh close behind him. Batch topper Dushi couldn’t replicate his success story on the front of kite-flying and ended up losing again and again… and again and again …to anybody and everybody. Poor Dushi!
Well, that’s all I have for now.
Manish K
Kite flying is an art. It rquires precision, skills and aspiration to acheive the hights of sky. Best part was to compete and compete hard, to shout, to bet and to laugh with friends. To look up at sky and see colours flying makes one feel to see our nation also reach those heights.