Skip to main content

Wear Bishnupriya Manipuri dress in college freshers’ day; and become cynosure of your friends


By Sonica Rajkumari, New Delhi

Few days to go, we all will enter into a new year 2009, leaving behind 2008 for ever. For some people this year would have been worse, for some so-so, and for some would have been very nice. If I take my case this year has been nice to me. This year I had full of surprises and suspense in my kitty.

In this year I have been thrown into a new rejuvenated and different sort of world: the hostel life. Exactly a year-gap in between the discipline-school and the casual-college where I am pursuing my study presently. So for me the first year in the college has been very thrilling and exciting. Though we haven't faced any sort of ragging. 

We have not got our seniors as we are the first batch of SPA (School of Planning and Architecture), Vijayawada. So it became our disadvantage and as well as advantage as we are getting attention and responsibility in putting up our best work, to make each event and festival lively and unforgettable.

During Onam, which was the first festival came after the commencement of the session in September, all Malayalam speaking students, usually called Mallus, decided the dress code for that day i.e their traditional lungi for boys and simply long skirts with jasmine rose (gajra) on hair for girls. Many students including me implemented it and also made design of SPA, New Delhi logo using flowers petals on the floor outside the classroom.

After that we were desperately waiting for the next festival, Diwali. I already had our Bishnupriya Manipuris traditional dress on Diwali we specially girls worn our traditional dress. Telugu girls’ worn lehenga which is very similar to saree. One thing I can say for sure their dress is also something like us i.e two piece where as saree is one piece. Assamese girls worn mekhla. But my dress was something that was extraordinary. My dress compelled everyone to ask what this dress is except some north-eastern student who didn’t ask about it. It was actually looking nice and they appreciated me as I was looking like a doll with that attire. I think they impersonated my dress with Chinese doll.

At evening time we cracked crackers and ful- jadi. But more than that photo sessions was going on, with the same full of energy and excitement, recently we celebrated our freshers’ party. 

We did our best to make the party unforgettable and lively even in the absence of seniors. Now, what was next – the New Year? Which I am going to celebrate here at home in Delhi, but I already had cakes for Xmas and new year in advance on 19 December, 2008 as from 21st December we had holiday.

We genuinely feel bad whenever we drop our friends to railway station, as we are not gonna meet for next 12-15 days. I think the same strange feeling envelop you when you were in college, miles away from your home.

From the past many years I have been celebrating New Year by just watching special shows on television which was specially saved only for 31 December. I don't know this year I will celebrate in the same manner or not. I hope 2009 year would be nice for me as well for you all reading this article. May the year 2009 make yours and mine dream come true. I wish all my brothers, sisters and all Bishnupriya Manipuris a warm heartedly a very happy and prosperous new year. Keep rocking.

Happy New Year !
Read: 

Please subscribe to the blog: receive email. Get Free alert on your mobile! Click here.

Subscribe to:

Labels:

Comments

  1. DesignDot30 December 2008 at 22:06

    glad to read your post.. gud going

    anyway, wish you a very happy new year.

    V ... rock on

    ReplyDelete
  2. santosh kumar singha30 December 2008 at 23:05

    Nice to know that you wore our traditional dress in your institute's occasion,but m thinking what would we guys can wear if we want to?.....May this new year bring more growth to our people

    ReplyDelete
  3. Prabal Atreya31 December 2008 at 21:39

    Well said, ma'am!!

    There is beauty and elegance in the dress code that we have. I'll second with your thoughts...

    Keep up the rigor!!
    Thanks

    ReplyDelete
  4. Anonymous2 January 2009 at 13:26

    Now thats what I call a constructive article from a cute little Bishnupriya Manipuri girl.

    Sonica keep rocking sister!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Bijoy sinha22 October 2011 at 19:23

    Sonica u r awesome

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

We all love comments. It is moderated

Popular posts from this blog

Flinders University appoints Dr Romi Sinha as Associate Lecturer

Dr. Romi Sinha, appointed Associate Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia Adding one more story of Indian diaspora by individuals who by dint of their single-minded dedication and hard work achieve success, Dr Romi Sinha, an alumna of Silchar Medical College, Assam, is one among them. Daughter of Rebati Mohan Sinha, she has been awarded the post of Associate Lecturer in the School of Medicine at Flinders University, Australia.  Since its inception in 1966, the Australian university has built a strong reputation for quality and innovation in its courses and in its teaching. It is the first university in the world to have a bachelor course in nanotechnology, and the first in Australia to offer a graduate entry medical course. Throughout its history, Flinders University has had a focus and an emphasis on research .  Her achievement is an inspiration for students and parents to lay emphasis on quality education. 
3 comments
Read more

A life devoted to poetry

Courtesy: The Sentinel By Champalal Sinha In the world of present Bishnupriya Manipuri literature, the man who first makes his imprint on our minds and reflects his image in our eyes, and the name that comes first while discussing the literature of the community is poet Brojendra Kumar Sinha. His fault-finders will, however, have a different view. His is a life totally devoted to poetry, and this is his first identity. It’s poet Brojendra Kumar Sinha who first introduced structural aspect, subject matter, mode of expression, appeal, soul (core), rhetoric and the like in a conscious way in Bishnupriya Manipuri literature in order to put it on a par with developed literatures in the world. And he has been successful in his relentless efforts towards that end. His poems have been translated and published in English, Bengali, Assamese, Nepali, Kokborok, Manipuri, Urdu and other languages, and received with applause. Talking straight, he is the architect of modern Bishnupriya Manipuri poe...
4 comments
Read more

The 'Star' Krishankant Sinha of Space City Sigma

By RK Rishikesh Sinha, New Delhi It is a myth that the all-knowing Internet knows everything. One such myth relates to old television stuff aired on Doordarshan before 1990. Search in Google “Space City Sigma”, the search engine would throw up reminiscent results from the people who still long for those days. Those days were really golden days. Krishankant Sinha in the role of Captain Tara in Space City Singma For those who have watched Doordarshan some 15 to 20 years back, am sure they will have nostalgic memories of it. The days when possessing a now ubiquitous looking television set was a luxury. It was a neighbour’s envy product. It was a visual product to showoff, to flaunt that we have a television set . Those were the days when black and white, locked television was rarely found in homes. The days became immortal for teleserials like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Swami’s Malgudi Days (Ta-Na-Na-Na…), Ek-Do-Teen-Char (Title song: Ek do teen char, chaaro mil ke saath chale to ...
26 comments
Read more