Bunking College for Saraswati Puja!? Sounds Paradoxical!

So following the tradition of NITW, we have a mass bunk this year as well for Durga Puja or/and Dushera or/and Vijaydashmi or/and Saraswati Puja – the list goes on and on.

However, it's only Saraswati Puja that takes the centerstage in my home – which incidentally falls on navami, the day before Vijaydashmi. Everyone turns into a busybody early in the day – and it's really hectic cleaning each and every article. However, it's just another occasion for the whole family to be together, doing household chores and stuff – quite fun at times.

Now Goddess Saraswati possesses the powers of speech, wisdom and learning. And we students are the ones who should be worshipping her. Yet we bunk college (where we are supposed to study, though most of us don't) to come home to worship Goddess Saraswati to bestow her blessings upon us. Moreover, this year, we are bunking a midlab exam as well – all coz of one stubborn teacher. Maybe its right on our part, maybe its wrong – no one really bothered to think about all that. We had walked 99 steps forward – and forcing 1 step forward is easier than going 99 steps backward.


And that lab exam is scheduled to start in another 30 min or so – bless us and knock some sense into that teacher. At least make him realise he can't conduct an exam with zero attendance.