Suicide seminar!

It was September 11 a day which led to chain of events which are continuing till today.... ok coming back to present ...Our college conducted a suicide prevention seminar on September11 ..After passing the prelims thankfully our team reached to the finals where we had to compete with other teams ....Since 9/11 event took place on this day I already had planned to make a presentation on "Suicide attacks" ..My second topic dealt with the "Farmer suicides" in India...We were a team of three with some support from vish also.. After doing some research and some stenography. I was ready with my stuff..We started to make the presentation one day before the final presentation..dep did the typing plus she had collected some really good stuff...I was satisfied with romal also because he can do anything even at the last moment .. and I was quite happy , very optimistic...Next day every thing was fine...Though I was sick but thanks to Dr.Brother's tele- medicine I was feeling better and was prepared for the seminar......The timing for seminar is 3pm... "Still one hour left" I was thinking....No sign of dep and romal...."Here they come"..They were fine tuning the presentation from the morning..Everything was going perfectly alright..romal had some work at choir so he would meet us at 3pm..We go to the media lab to check our stuff..Some people are already working on a computer.. We find other lonely computer..Switch it on..We insert the pen drive..It is not detecting anything..."What"...My heart starts to thump.."Hey lets check the other computer" I said..We request the other people to let us use their comp for few minutes..Without any protest the sweet girls let us use it...Now insert the pen drive..."Yes our stuff is there'...I am relieved....Every slide is running smoothly...Now comes our video from the movie"pulp fiction" "click" I can only see Uma Thurman in a still pose "click again" she is still a statue "click click'..."Wait why the hell is it not working"..We haven't added it properly ...At home it works because it catches the path....dep is tensed..
"It is 2:15 we can go back home and download the video".. i said..me,dep&vish started to run..Reaching to downstairs , jogging around 25 steps on the ground zero..dep realizes that her house key is missing....."I think we have left it in the media lab"..After some jogging again..I am back with the key and we jog again....This time hired the auto without asking the auto driver to use the meter ...I am sweating so are the others....Gushing wind that came into the moving auto-rickshaw brought some relief.. We reach to dep's place...Download the video painfully again..Come back again in the same auto and he charges us mercilessly...After some "bakwaas"I chucked the idea of fight.. i checked the watch..the minute hand is on twelve and the hour hand is on three.."THREE my God... Presentation"...i was feeling the same that Cinderella must had felt at the clocks first stroke of midnight!!..ok calm down I need to settle down....foosh... dep and vish obsessively go to other class to download something again (which unfortunately we couldn't show due to time limit).. Me and romal reach to the assembly hall..The seminar has already started..We are number 3 ..Thankfully...'dep and vish also enter after some time.. I tell dep and etall to remain calm now and be relaxed.. Now every one is quite relaxed..Here comes our turn...All the best" I said..dep gives the introduction..I talk about 'suicide attacks'and all that what who and combat. blah blah blah...Next is romal who also does his job perfectly..He talks about unintentional suicides.. "pulp fiction video".. and some oohs and essss from the audience.. its my turn again... I start with the images of the farmer widows..." "India being a country of 1.1 billion population..Agriculture supporting 600million....Suicides due to heavy debts in ,AP, Up,Maharastra,Kerala,Karnataka... in Vidarbha one suicide per day....fake seeds"..bla blah blah balh Prevention..we are running out of time i accept that i took more time...romal's turn again..as he starts to talk .. ..the light goes off...oh we couldn't show our calvin and hobbes slides and other important slides.. judges decide next team should do the presentation.. as our time was already UP!. at the end i became a bit mellow. and it is not necessary that things will always work at the right time ...at the right place.... .. Results were announced..we bagged the third prize...because we were not bookish..because we didn't not use heavy terms like cognitive blal blah blah..we were simple where our focus was not on depression..but the social conditions that lead to an extreme step of committing suicide. like outrage,Poverty,helplessness,despair,lonelyness etc.... but i am satisfied because we were different from others ..our research was not from heavy books.. ..I swear our presentation was exciting. I wish we could had shown all the slides to the audience and judges ..They would had surely liked it...Maybe the judges main focus was prevention measures only in technical terms and were not interested in finding the root cause.. Anyway I am happy even though we couldn't show everything but we gave our best in preparing our stuff...
"Ah" it is still raining outside.. after such a hot and humid climate..i took a rain-shower before i came here to type...the rain was cold...i felt rejunivated... the cool breeze is playing with the rain sending it here and there..like the corn grains are scattered to pigeons.Bangalore is again looking fresh and cool!