The day dawned bright and sunny. There was a festive season in the air as FCS geared up to celebrate the Festival of Lights, Diwali. The Employees Welfare Task Group organized the mega event, FCS Deep Mahotsav. Filled as it was with music, masti and suspense, the employees at FCS brewed up their own potboiler.

And by all accounts, it was firecracker of an evening reverberating with the sounds of instruments, songs and a lustily cheering audience. 

The fun began at 6:30 in the evening on a musical note with what can only be called a mini concert by the trio from OSG who performed under the moniker of the ‘Three Ss.’ The vocalist and guitarist for the troupe, Shiv Kumar, took the audience on a nostalgic trip when he opened with the retro Dum Maro Dum. He was very ably supported by Sukhvinder Singh on the congo drums and Sachin Gupta on the keyboards. The half an hour performance culminated in a medley of songs. The audience thoroughly enjoyed this performance singing along with Shiv and clapping in time to Sukhvinder’s beats.

When I was a kid, or should I say when all of us were kids (of course at different points in time) we used to find out different ways to runaway from that big glass of milk…and our moms would always manage to find out different ways to make us drink that, I mean either by adding chocolate powder to it or by bribing us of a toffee for each glass of milk or something something… What would you call it? Love? Affection? Care? In fact it was about all of them. But can I say it was an application of creativity on her part to get that job done. Yes I can…. She knew we were bored of consuming that plain, white milk everyday so she just went out of the way a little and……and didn’t we enjoy those milkshakes and cold coffees. 

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