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Finally we executed our plan and started our first ‘friends’ gathering’ yesterday at the unoccupied meeting hall of Press Club. Though we were only six of us but that was a pretty good beginning, at least it started off. Next time we will have more enthusiasts coming in and being part of our little Sunday thing. The whole idea is basically to have an interesting way to spend Sunday afternoons discussing on various topics, quizzing, debating, organizing events, movie screenings, guest lectures, etc.  

Yesterday we didn’t invited many, we were just gathered to introduce quizzing/debating/intellectual forum to our two new friends and shared our thoughts and discussed about how to do this thing and lead the way. On our first Sunday, everyone introduced themselves and everyone got to know about the new friends. The ideas kept flowing and seemed very interesting. Yash Marda, a Chartered Accountant by profession conveyed the idea about the forum. He is a really busy guy and gets free from his work only on Sundays and like everyone else he does not want to spend the holiday for nothing. I first saw him at Prajwal’s book launch at Rachna and just a week ago we meet at Bakers’s Café in Gangtok after Dweep, a working journalist at Sikkim Express introduced us. Over the cup of espresso we opened our lives and thoughts and Yash shared this brilliant idea of him with me and Dweep. And we were like – ‘when do we begin?’. And finally within a week we did it.

On the first informal meet, we didn’t had any specific agenda, however we talked on various topics right from Dweep`s Captivating Ghost Encounters to Tamanna`s views on Religion, from Dhiren`s & Yash’s views on science and superstition and my story on how I overcame fear of the supernatural. It was a non-stop interesting discussion in which we all shared various perspectives of religion, philosophy. Science, superstition and how all these affect our lives and thinking.  We also discussed about the some books and films made on famous books, authors and a bit of photography. In short it was like a mixed fruit jam - a flavor of everything! And it WAS FUN!!!!