ATD stars in SISO's Painting Contest :)

"Holi" , the festival of colors , just the thought of it and the whole world flashes red, green, yellow and blue before one's eyes. And what could be better if you get a chance to play with these colors and make everything colorful, just the way you wanted to. Thanks to Samskrti who gave the SISOites a chance to enjoy this beautiful festival in a unique way by organizing the painting contest. It started at 11am with lots of last moment entries from ATDians. When there is any event which involves challenge, fun and creativity ATDians are always "game" for it and this was no different. Before the ATD participants entered it was all serious business. But the whole atmosphere got transformed into a jovial one with ATDians occupying a corner of the "Banquet Hall" floor. Jokes were being cracked and there was laughter all around. Crayons, sketch pens, water colors and brushes were spread everywhere and most of the material had to be shared amongst the participants. While other divisions proceeded with the task seriously they wondered about the ATD participants who seemed like "just having fun" and their paintings were no less ,also depicting the same "bindaas" attitude. Brijesh started making "A B C D", Vaishali started painting circles directly, Devendra sketched two faces on the sheet, Ritesh started drawing Krishna and Radha, Hema made a winking sun, nobody understood what Surya was trying to make and Vasu was painting in his own creative mood.

As time slipped by, paintings started taking shape. Some of the ideas which were looking vague got more refined and meaningful. Brijesh completed his "A B C D" , Ritesh's "Radha Krishna" were looking better and a "Kamadhenu" also appeared, Vaishali's circles started merging into each other, Hema sprinkled some more color on her painting, few Holi-playing hands appeared on Surya's painting and Debu's painting got more colorful. While ATDians were totally engrossed in their dream world, few more dropped in just to see the paintings. Kiran, Sreekanth and Babitha came after half of the time was already over and they couldn't resist trying their hands at it. They picked up the drawing sheets, borrowed colors from fellow ATDians and started coloring in fully cheerful mood.

As the time approached for finishing the paintings, everybody hurried to complete their piece of art. But there was a different scene amongst ATDians, they were helping fellow ATDians whose paintings were better than theirs' and had the chance of winning a prize. Everybody around Surya was passing on colors to him along with suggestions "paint the balloons in this color.hey use this for hands.". Most of ATDians could finish in time. Debu had nicely depicted a "Guy n girl" playing holi with colors around them, Ritesh's "Krishna, Radha and Kamadhenu" were all ready, Vaishali's circles had taken the shape of a beautiful meditation chart, Hema's painting got more bright as it got more color sprinkled, Sreekanth's moon was shouting "Mujhe bhi holi khelna hai" , Brijesh's "A B C D" was transformed into a school going child in holi celebration , Vasu's painting was a unique one saying "when nature celebrates holi, colors differ..", Babitha had painted the recently visited "Skandgiri hill" , Surya had painted "hands playing Holi", Swapna rushed and finished her beautiful painting of two ladies sitting in colorful traditional dresses (she was coloring in unusual style using her hands instead of using painting brush) and there was Kiran's amusing painting depicting his dream girl with her hair flowing all around J .

The time was up and it was creativity at its best by ATDians, Everybody was waiting eagerly for the results and there U go .....it was ATD all over again bagging maximum number of prizes. Surya's painting got second prize, third prize to Vasu and there was a lot of appreciation for the paintings by Vaishali and Debu. The paintings were appreciated for their uniqueness and creativity. Truly when ATD participates "Style is different". We are the toughest as well as the coolest. Congratulations ..We rock!!!