Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Swami and Mood Indigo (of IIT Bombay, IITB)

I received a call from a Sadhu/Swami (S/S), just as I reached home today evening.  
He was at the IITB Main Gate, wanted to enter the campus, but the sentries at the gate stopped him - he did not have any ID linking him to IITB, nor did he have any appointment in the campus.  
He wanted to drive around the campus, to get a feel of Mood Indigo!

Why would a Sadhu/Swami (S/S) be interested in MI?  
Answer: He is an alumnus, BTech Mech IITB 1973.  
My classmate.  
After a couple of years in a job, he decided to take 'sanyAsa' and became a S/S.  
We traced him in 1998, but I met him in 2002 in London.  
He was the chief of a London Temple then.  

I talked to a security officer, and the S/S was allowed to take a round of the campus.

I think all of us from 1973 onwards will retain nostalgic memories of Mood Indigo - at least of the older kind.  

And that will attract us back to MI on IITB Campus.  

I am sure spirits of some alumni who now RIP wander around the campus during Mood-I.

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