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with LED Costumes. But how would we get the LED Jackets within our budget? This is when our desi minds worked and no one better than Mudit and I can define what the term ‘Jugaad’ means. Those innumerable Chandni Chowk trips, trying to find out the cheapest and yet the lights of our choices, stitching every single LED light on the Tailor-made jacket and then connecting the wires, we did it all by ourselves! I am confident now that the next time the Being selected as the P-Wave Sec- retary and given the whole respon- sibility of the Dance I knew it was going to be different this time and nothing less than a rollercoaster ride. Diwali lights don’t work or the shirt button falls off we will be able to fix them in a whiff! A month before the show I was posted in a village and that’s when the actual test began. Coordinating with the team back here at the campus and practic- ing whereever and whenever, I could see that there were chances of everything falling apart. Nothing was going according to the plan and the pressure was getting into my head. Getting hold of the auditorium just 40 hours be- fore the show just made matters worse. There was so much to do in the limited time left. We had just one day to go through all the scenes, practice the dance routines on the stage, do the lighting, get the props and what not! I knew I couldn’t have handled all of it alone and that’s when everybody stepped in and took responsibility. Every single person who had a part to play deserves a pat at the back. Hitesh was a savior as no one except him could have prepared the sound track in such a less time. I cannot thank Mudit enough for staying up all night to fix the LED costumes and get the screen ready for the shadow dance. Kudos to the beautiful Backdrop created by the Fine Arts team which was way beyond our ex- pectations. As we all know ‘Time and Tide wait for none’ hardly had the team realized when the 40 hours had gone by. 16 September 2016 The day arrives and soon the curtains are raised. It was time for all our hard work to pay off. Lights, Camera and Action! We start depicting the story with a strong play backed by soulful dance numbers. The story of a young girl Trisha (Chitrakshi) who loses her beloved mother and falls into depression after her death. With the constant abuse she faces from her step-father who she believes to be the sole reason of her mother’s death, she ends up consult- ing a doctor. There she meets Aryan (Me), who like her ‘Knight in shining armour’ changes the way she looks at life. Things go well until the day when Tri- sha’s step father comes home drunk to cause trouble and Aryan ends up killing him while protecting her. In order to save Aryan from the police Trisha asks him to flee away. When interrogated by the Police Trisha finds that she does not have any factual infor- mation about Aryan soon to realise that he actually never existed. Aryan was just a mere hallucination caused by her desire to feel happy and secure again. The song begins, “ We don’t talk anymore, We don’t talk any more…” and I realise it is already the last routine – The shadow dance, one of my personal fa- vourites. The performance comes to an end and as I lay on stage, curtains drawn, people cheering, I close my eyes and wonder “Is it really over?” wishing if I could relive the last 40 minutes all over again. On behalf of the P Wave team, 2017 - Ayush Goel, 3023, Batch of ‘13 15