Coagulation of useless ideas into sensible formulation.

Out for a casual walk in the evening once coming out the weird office that I work in, where not even the Saturdays are spared. This is not the kind of walk that you might have seen that an old man with his old wife does, going round and round in one of the so called gardens of Bangalore in the evenings and in the mornings. Its more of the kind of ambulation that stirs the eyes of none, one that the masses do every day on their way back home after the days work. So on this casual walk since there was nothing else to do except for walking and the ears tuned to the local FM station, across the road I saw these four to five students gathered around the Chat House(road side Indian fast food joint), well these are places where we perform the open house discussions and formulate public opinion of all kinds and never really come to a single point of understanding commonly called "Adda" . Unlike old folks, Adda's are more popular among the young college people who are better equipped with facts and figures; comes up with faster resolutions. Only a year ago I too was an active member of such a college student group(aapni Adda), though we did not really have a name for the group or a specialization on something, but we did have different departments occupied by the specialized individuals. There was there the Planman(does all the preliminary level planing), the Cyclopedia(provides the first glimpse of fact and figures), the Spearhead(a protagonist running against the motion), the Intellect( shows most creative picture from behind), the Questionnaire(filled with doubts, can turn the point), the Audience(the Dumb listeners but good reflex action) and of course the Alternative(can take any position on any account of absence, otherwise does nothing just like I am doing now).

The triggering of any new chapter is usually thrown from the Audience, after which the Cyclopedia would gather his info and put on the table of the house. The Intellect will then quickly go through the facts and brings about a inconclusive conclusion to which the Spearhead always! always disagree and forwards his own tale with spiced up events. The Planman will now try to device a plan out of all these, however the flow of the Adda is always in hands of the Questionnaire, who can pop up with a very relevantly stupid query anytime and turn the tables to his end, hence bringing the discussion on to entirely a new page. Meanwhile The Audience will respond with their familiar... Oops! and WoWs! and sometimes very silent and sometimes about to burst out. There are also various environmental factors that affect or effects a successful Indian Adda. The place where the first blood was drawn, whether its a hostel room/veranda/rooftop, football/cricket field while waiting for ones turn, classroom with or without the professor, a restaurant/chat house with or without tables and tools or plates, in the bus/auto/tractor whatever. And also the time when the fire started is never absolute, I would mark a commonly bizarre combination of time where one just woke up from sleep with a tooth brush to start his day and the other was about to go to sleep after having passed the whole night at the study table could start off an Adda and then leave while the others would carry it to the next level. However its worth mentioning that these Adda's may not lead to decisive ends but the participants and the spirit of participation is definitely what its all worthy of.