ED: Well I am really tempted to write a bit of foreword here. This was really a wonderful evening for me. I remember I was home after my usual evening workout and with all the accumulating dirty clothes, I was forced to wash clothes in the evening (Usually I always used to come home from office in the afternoon to wash clothes to avoid wasting the office time). And it was quite suddenly getting cloudier and light thunder in the sky. I could not believe that I was washing clothes in this sort of a weather, and exactly at that time, my roommate Puneet dropped in and immediately offered to go along to CCD and have a hot coffee. Over coffee we discussed the possible things we could do that night so that we could stay out as long as possible and thats when this plan was hatched as described in the mail.

From: Tanmay Kishore Bhandakkar (ME 2002)
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: Bhale day

Yesterdat i.e 2'nd April 2004, a person was sleeping. Suddenly his sleep is disturbed by a phone call. The call says they are coming in around 1 hour, as we have to go to drink tea. The receiver at the other end is confused as it 10 in the night, he thinks he has been made APRIL FOOL and so again carries on with his daily sleping ritual. After 1 hour door bell rings. He is confused. What he sees is ( bit marathi) DASTURKHUUD BABA BHALE AND HIS COMRAD PUNEET MEHTA have descended in the kutia( bit of Hindi) of Tanmay. He goes to the gallery first and sees that the clouds have been overpowered with emotions and they are crying like anything ( bit marathi) aanadashroo. Then Tanmay follows the path of highest attainment and the three in the rain move to the tea board. Tanmay as per the guidelines of BABA is in his T-shirt and Bermuda. A rare sight in IISc as people turn their heads to watch the radiant glow as BABA pass through the roads with the background of rain. Some people think of "ON THE (ROOF)ROAD IN THE RAIN" ( copy rights movie MASTI). There (bit marathi) AMRUT-RUPI tea is served to BABA and his followers. Then some very fundamental discussion takes place under ther able tutelage of BABA BHALE(BB). At the end conclusion is reached to allow Tanmay carry on his daily ritual and BB and his comrad leave to enlighten some other place.
 

ED: All said, the rains were really heavy that night and it was probably foolish really to simply walk out in the rains with the intention of getting wet. But then, "I have much to learn ;-)"