Holi Crap!

It's been one crazy week of deadlines and 12-14 hours of slog at work non-stop except for the one blissful Sunday in-between. If anyone thinks that making a video-game is a ultra-cool, relaxed and fun affair they are right, but only just. There is plenty of hard work and back-breaking stuff that goes on behind the scenes and there are days when you lose track of time, days and entire months! No kidding!

What's all this got to do with Holi, you may ask? Well, one of the days I did go for work was on Holi (15/3/2006), despite being a holiday. Knowing the fanatics that prowl the streets during the day, we (the team that is) decided to come to office post-lunch when things are usually a bit more tame. So it was that I headed out to office on my Pulsar 180 expecting to be ambushed by kids with water pistols or water balloons. Surprisingly, there was hardly anyone on the street. I was even more surprised when I found there was hardly any traffic on the highway as well. What a stroke of luck I thought to myself, and proceeded to enjoy a leisurely drive to office on a nearly empty road.

It wasn't until later that night when my mom rang me up that I found out that there had been some violence in Navi Mumbai due to Holi celebrations going awry. Police had been called in to calm down the situation and as a result life had been somewhat paralysed in that area. I had no idea!

There was more trouble in the same locality today in relation to the same Holi incident and as a result Navi Mumbai had been closed down again. I returned home to find that hotels and shops are all closed as a result of which I had to settle for a packed of Bourbon Chocolate biscuits for dinner. Oh well, it's better than nothing!

So much for Holi and the celebration of colours. Blood runs on the streets now.