The Tale Of Ramayana

“Am I dreaming? Or have the Ramayana epic come alive in front of my eyes?”

The unknown-boy from Retail Marketing batch rubbed his eyes and looked all over SIX of us yet again.

Then he nudged the closest one next to him. “Can you see what I am seeing?”

“Definitely!” was the reply.

I smiled watching their reactions. Well, me and my group mates have been getting the same kind of responses from everyone we met since we stepped out from our hiding area(which was the 3rd floor of our college building and precisely at that moment, we were on the 2nd floor, in front of our class).


I know, you might be thinking what this girl is trying to prove. I have my own sweet reason to prolong the suspense. That is one of the days I hold close to my heart, not just because of the fun quotient it provided to me. Actually I cannot pinpoint and choose a reason why it was great. It simply was. INEXPLICABLE.


It was the 7th of December 2010. My MBA life has given me a lot of reasons to smile. This one tops the chart. It was the day for our final Business Communication presentation. Each of the 10 groups in the class had had a different thing to present. My group (Group 7) had the most embarrassing of the lot. We had FANCY DRESS. We were the laughing stock of our batch since the topics were allotted. Even we made fun of ourselves thinking about our fate. We had absolutely no CLUE at that point of time that this particular day would etch itself in each of our hearts.


It was Ketki, in our group, who came up with the whole Ramayana idea. We decided to put it into action. As there were six members in my group (5 girls and a guy), we selected Rama, Lakshman, Sita, Hanuman, Raavan and Surpanaka from the epic to enact. Then came the initial conflict on who will enact whom. Chit system was used to solve this issue. The next step was to get the costume. We visited a nearby costume shop and selected the required costumes.


On the DOOMS DAY, all six of us came early and started our ritual. Getting dressed was one hell of a job. We put make-up to each other. It was pure FUN TIME. We had the time of our lives looking at each other and laughing our heads off. The most difficult problem arose when it was time to get out and face other batch mates. We mustered up our courage and caught the lift down. The Hanuman in our group kept shooting ugly glances at her newly sprouted tail. I was scared myself that I would hit someone with the arrow on my shoulder hilt (I was Lakshman, you see). As soon as we entered our class, silence fell. I knew then that we scored in their hearts.

From Left: Mayuri Pawar, Ketki Pitale, Shruti Singh, Sagnik Mukhopadhyay, Sajna V Koya, Swati Verma

We managed to get 8.5 out of 10 in that activity but it spoke much more than the marks. We gained recognition as the Ramayana Group of the class. As a group, we had had our own share of fights regarding many issues in that activity but finally it was the group work that stood out. Kudos GROUP 7. Love you all.

"Among Life's precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare."