There are many ways, bachelor boys celebarte their birthday. In hostel, the most common trend was of Alcohol, Music and Dance. However, there are people who do things differently.
There was Ankur, Pandu as we used to call him in college. Pandu was his nick as he played the role of "PANDU HAWALDAR"  in a much famous play in college.  Pandu, was mostly bald, fat, in round shape, wearing  black framed specs, always cheering and always yes to alocohol.

But then, he said, i will celebrate my birthday in a different way. Everytime it"s drink, let"s have bhaang this time.  Bhaang for everyone. So on the fateful, lucky day, early morning he brought some bhaang leaves and milk from market and then they prepared it in one of rooms in the ground floor front wing. By 11:30 AM they were done and boys have started coming back to hostel for lunch from academic campus .

Birthday boy was attending the comers in the lobby insisting for a glass or two. and people didn"t hesitate either. most of them obliged him. Even those, who never had even a small kind of "nasha" didn"t mind in taking shivaji ka prasad.

I wasn"t also among no-sayers. so i took 2 full glasses  and it was too tasty to resist. Then i went for lunch. At lunch, i felt like not hungry. This was opposite to as they say that after bhang, you feel hungry. That might be because i just had 2 full glass liquid. Anyway, i ate some food and then came out of mess.
I chatted with few friends for some time around outside mess. Meanwhile, one other friend came for lunch. By that time, i started feeling hungry. so i went for food again with him. while we were having food, over the dining table, someone said something and everybody laughed. i too laughed, but in a short while, i realised that i am not able to stop. i quickly got up, came to water cooler, washed hands, had some water and headed straight towards my room. I locked the gate from inside and then laughed for around half an hour. It was all unstoppable.

Finally, after sometime i got somewhat normal, so i came out to get know what all others are doing. I went to next room to me.
Sachin was there, sleeping. I knocked slowly to see if he is still awake. he asked,
"who is there".
"it"s me"
"kaun? porwal?"
"yes"
"Aaja"
he opened his eyes and said.
"Ek baat poochho"
"bol"
"tu kidher hai. Mujhe 2-3 jagah najar aa raha hai."
"here only".
Never mind. I took a chair and we talked for about 15 minutes about how we were feeling. he went to sleep then and i came out and moved to yogesh"s room. sunil was laying on the bed and sharma was sitting next to him.
He was just waiting there for somebody to come.
"porwal, yaar iski tabiyat kharab ho gayee hai. 2 minute iske pass baith. main abhi aata huin".
i said ok. i sat at his place.
and there was sunil laying there with all seriousness over his face. No ex-pressions, just staring at me.
and wild thoughts were going over my mind.
"saale ko kuchh bhi hajam nahin hota". and that laughter was again going to come through my mind.
i wasn"t willing it to come at my face. but i couldn"t stop that too.
and sunil was still staring at me with all that seriousness. I just thought, he will get up and kick me.
"saale meri tabiyat kharab ho rahi hai aur tu hans raha hai."

I thought best is to leave the place and make somebody else sit. soon yogesh came in. I repeated the
same excuse sharma gave me and made him stay there in place of me.

Then i came down in ground floor wing. Birthday boy was roaming there all around with a polybag of lemons and salt in his hands. knocking door to door asking if anybody needs them. Many people had reported wierd illness.

I asked him if he needs any help and he handed over polybag to me . Aks everybody and please give it whoever needs it. I knocked the door of dadhich"s room. tushar was also sleeping there on another bed. I asked him if he need lemon.
he said, yes, give me one. tushar is not feeling well. i will give it to him.
I gave him one.
i aksed him too, don"t you need ? you can also take one.
he said with full confidance, "no no, i don"t need it. i am alright and nothing will happen to me.
i came out and closed the door. just after a second, dadhich opened the door again and called me.
"porwal, yaar ek kaam kar, 1 mujhe bhi de de. kuchh ajeeb sa hi lag raha hai"
i smiled and serviced him.

I made one quick round and then came to lobby varandah again.

4-5 people were sitting there in different unusal positions. One guy was sitting there in indian potty style with both his hand over his forhead.
another was simply crying, "please koi mujhe hospital le chalo".

I asked why all are sitting there. They were just waiting for some transport to take them to hospital.
only transport available at that time was one scooter which was making rounds to hospital.

Luckily, nothing serious happened to anybody.

i stayed there for sometime and came back to my room. I was also not feeling sleepy and nobody elsewas there to chat around. so best was to get on the bed.
In evening, hangover was still there for me and it stayed for next day too, though losing it"s grip with time.

But it was truly a great fun having bhaang.  have it limited, try it sometime!!!