A Different Experience

I guess its general knowledge that we, NCC guys bunk classes so often (I can see flame coming out of your stomach: p)

In this camp which is being conducted in our college premises, we will remember the left right left only when d seniors pass. Other times it will be pure fun. But today it turned out to be something different and special.

NCC sir handpicked some four of us along with some other NSS cadets to distribute pamphlets in a village to educate them about ‘Kuppai Poda Thadai’ court order. We thought it was going to be a phoo-phoo job going around the village and giving out these pamphlets. But we were totally wrong.

It was a pathetic scene that met our eyes when v went deep into the village..

Imagine the scene-drainage open and flowing in the roads, streets full of smelly garbage, and a foul smell in the whole atmosphere. Imagine the plight of the people living there. we found it so so difficult to stay there for just 5 mins with out covering up our noses. but those people live there. Their place of living. How contrasting to our well ventilated (or air conditioned) sweet smelling bedrooms!!!

That’s the other side of the coin..

When we gave the neatly printed pamphlets to those village ladies they couldn’t even read it. They asked us as to what it was all about. as we started explaining that its about the order prohibiting the dumping of the garbage in that area, they became so emotional and hailed us high saying that its only thru us that something cud probably done to save that village from this unaddressed issue.

While this is d reaction of d ladies, there were few ‘elite’ crowd who questioned us as to how v r going to go about doing this Herculean task. We were actually stumped. the job given to us was to distribute the pamphlets n so v honestly had no clue as to what to answer to these question. so escape!!!

After covering the entire village, v targeted the people walking on d roads n thus v journeyed on d road to tambaram.

we decided on d policy of ‘divide and cover’ we divided the whole place and each one of us distributed the pamphlets in d area assigned to us.

Finally the effectiveness of our division of area was acknowledged by the fact that a man came to us and gave about ten posters back to us saying he has had enough posters (we have covered the same area so many times- effectiveness of our division of work..!)

Then the most awaited job of the day- eating…we had our lunch in vb tambaram. the meal was splendid although I missed our coll ‘bisibelabath’ badly.. lols!!!

then at last when we reached coll it was almost 3.30. we entered the campus and god bless everybody! Students started pouring out of the coll.

Yippie!!!!!!!!

so we hurried to the NCC room and we were out in a jiffy wid our bags and off home…

no no.. wait wait..

I hurried to the bus with a happy feeling of being the first one to reach the bus. ulla vandhu paatha… already there was my friend sitting in that corner seat of mine puncturing d bubble of that contented feeling.(cha they never allow me to b first in any thing!!!!)

seri po nu pakathu seatla ukkarndhu nalla thoongitu veedu vandhu sendhen…

so that was my day today.

I wish I could do something more for that village!!!!