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Three Friends and the Monsoon Festival
1 The Committee of Terrible Ideas
At St. Mira's Senior Secondary School in Jaipur, Class Eleven had two seasons: exam season and pretending not to care about exam season. In the gap between them came the annual monsoon festival, which was how three best friends acquired a committee, a microphone and several avoidable problems.
Aanya loved theatre and made lists for everything, including lists of lists. Kabir could make a whole classroom laugh while standing outside it as punishment. Meera drew in the margins of her physics notebook, where the diagrams were better than the physics. They had sat together since Class Six, when Kabir accidentally ate Aanya's tiffin and Meera negotiated peace with a packet of orange cream biscuits.
This year their teacher, Mrs D'Souza, appointed them festival coordinators. 'Leadership,' she said, handing Aanya a folder thick enough to stop a cricket ball. 'And absolutely no disaster.'
Kabir saluted. 'Ma'am, please define disaster.'
'Anything you organise.'
Their first meeting took place beside the canteen samosa counter. Aanya wanted a stage play, Meera wanted an art wall, and Kabir wanted the budget spent on jalebi. Then Rohan walked past carrying a guitar case, Sana called to Meera from the library steps, and new student Zoya asked Kabir where the auditorium was. All three friends forgot the agenda at once. The festival had begun before anyone put up a poster.
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