Editorial - November. Enlightenment.

Time to open-up those trunks, dust-off those covering sheets, take out those naphthalene-ball infested woolens and cease procrastinating at the thought of soaking them in Genteel solution to set them clean and breathing again. Because, the 11th month on the Gregorian calendar is here to set you shivering and how! As we go along welcoming a spine-chilling north Indian winter, let us also keep in mind  to welcome you all back in the campus after a sweetly decided upon hiatus. Yes, Enlightenment’s happy to have you all back here!

The quotidian-ial course on all floors seems to be someone becoming the scapegoat of a point-and-laugh session for the excess holiday weight that one has put on and returned with. Or it is an event bordering onto near fatal assaults on some unsuspecting people who have with them, as per what the air holds, boatload of homemade delicacies under their possession. Also, as some people share their F1 Grand Stand experience with all, some others, who were made to shoo away from the parking lot of Metallica concert area, fume with sour envy. Many others who visited their hometown have returned with sweet tales of filial merriment and airy joy in their backpack. And that’s exactly what festival does to all – either it blankets everyone in its snuggly embrace of jollity or it makes one take stock of our diverse culture and its capacity to seek bliss in most places and in most number of ways.

And, as it so is with every other month in our campus, there’s no reason for this festivity to hit a halt. If at all anything, it is going to be accelerated up further. As the outsides would, in just some days, be filled with elation of Eid-Ul-Adha and Guru Nanak Jyanti, the insides would have something equally  universal to offer. Ignited Minds from the House CREST are planning on surprising us all with their offing this month and so are the Dream-Weavers. LnT Dhanush is ready with its Organogram and the people on that Organogram are ready with effervescent ideas to make you dance, play, sing, speak or mime. Or do all of them as per what the case shall be! Watch out their space and information channels for more dope on this matter in coming days. With Annual Sports Day being just a stone throw time away, people are advised to  take out their pair of trainers and hit the sector garden early in the morning for adequate amount of warm-up. Enlightenment wishes to append to this list by announcing -  

As we go along making way through testing political scenarios, uncertain global economical future, trying daily existence dotted with ever increasing real estate and petrol prices and all the other self-made, overthunk woes and worries resulting out of bottomless coffer-esque wants and desires so very typical of humanity, let’s set a moment aside for the humble men and women who lift up your white tea cup from your cubicle-desk after you are done consuming it, who set clean the office floor before you enter-in in the morning and who clean-up your personal dustbin after you have exited the building, who bring your evening snack-pack from food-court to main building every single evening  dot on time every single time. Who water your birthday-gift plant-pots and maintain the general well-being and greenery of the campus. And greet all these unassuming co-travelers with a word of kindness or a smile of gratitude. And , also, let’s remind ourselves that we all are, at the end of the day, mere talking apes on a blue and green, organic spaceship going around a ball of helium at around 29.3 Km/Sec and ask ourselves to  imbibe in a sense of perceiving the Oneness of the ‘whole’ and not merely whack away passing seconds in squabbling over the ‘parts.’

Hoping you find your much cherished newsletter a bit grown-up but as exciting as it always was. Here’s taking your leave for the time-being. 

Smile and breathe well. Thanks to you, all’s fine with the Universe. 

Take care.