Time to get Chaotic...

It is "Chaos" time at IIMA :-). It is a inter collegiate cultural festival with over 50 colleges participating from all over the country. Most importantly, it gives all of us here a welcome relief from the rigour of everyday studies. I thought I would dig up the origin of the word "chaos" from the net. Here goes:

Chaos is from the Greek word Khaos, meaning "gaping void". There are many explanations as to who or what Chaos is, but most theories state that it was the void from which all things developed into a distinctive entity, or in which they existed in a confused and amorphous shape before they were separated into genera. In other words, Chaos is or was "nothingness." Though some ancient writers thought it was the primary source of all things, other writers tell of Gaia (Earth) being born from Chaos without a mate, along with Eros and Tartarus. Then from Gaia came Uranus (Heaven or Sky) which gave us Heaven and Earth.
Chaos has been described as the great void of emptiness within the universe from which Eros came and it was he who gave divine order and also perfected all things. In later times it was written that Chaos was a confused shapeless mass from which the universe was developed into a cosmos, or harmonious order. For instance, Hesiod's Theogony says that Erebus and Black Night (Nyx) were born of Chaos, and Ovid the Roman writer described Chaos as an unordered and formless primordial mass. The first Metomorphoses reads, "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named."
The Roman writer Ovid gave Chaos its modern meaning; that of an unordered and formless primordial mass.

- an unordered and formless primordial mass - that is a fairly accurate description of the state of mind of the people here during chaos time. This is a platform on which people shed their inhibitions (and "prohibitions" ;-)) and have a whale of a time.

We had a concert by the band "Euphoria" last night. It was great fun to see the audience sway in one mind to the vocal wizardry of the lead singer. The day before we had sterling performances by Aslam Sabri (with his Qawwalis) and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia(or so the people say) . Yours truly skipped the Qawwalis bcoz he is as familiar with the nuances of the Hindi Language as a crocodile is with vegetarianism.

Overall, the festival does a lot to bring colour into IIMA, which is otherwise pretty dull and drab on most non academic fronts. Our seniors say that this will be the best time we can have at IIMA. Maybe it is true. I guess I have to find out :-))...

Sitan