Light designs leave unceasing streams of visitors awestruck
Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, March 5: Come mid-February and expectations are re-kindled with the hope of another rendezvous with the mesmerizing light designs spread across the Jubilee Park that resembles an unending canvas which could have left Alice dumbstruck in this Jamshedpur Wonderland.
The ‘curse’ of COVID-19 that befell mankind taking in its sway lives, loved ones, hopes and destruction in other varied and equally painful forms, marked its hellish presence by smearing the canvas of little joys that make life worthwhile.
Jamshedpur dons the royal robe as the city gets ready to welcome Founder’s Day on March 3 every year in newer shades of a world that transforms mundane life into a ‘vivacious,’ alluring, enticing and awe-inspiring alternative. The year 2023 arrived with a million times more zeal as the people of Jamshedpur and nearby and not-so-nearby areas trooped into the Jubilee Park, unmindful of a pushing crowd equally eager to make up for a three year COVID induced lull. And the crowd was not disappointed.
The three day Founder’s Day magical door was locked on Sunday, March 5 ‘extended’ night only to fan the fire of the 2024 version of ‘same time-next year.’
People lived each light-coloured moment as they moved on from one wonder to another and they failed to differentiate between the feel of one heaven from another.
For once, though on their toes and ever on the alert, the district and police administrations did find moments to seep in the delights of a hallowed aura permeating the Jubilee Park. They too, in patches perhaps, felt the joy of being one with the people, unrecognized and being one in the crowd.
The city and citizens did not beam in the glow of Jubilee Park alone, nor in that of other smaller parks and open spaces; the ‘misses’ of the three year gap were more than compensated for by the glitter and glow of the entire Steel city where every important road, building, landmark, small and big roundabouts…well, the entire city from dusk evoked a sense of romance that engross poets and hypnotize others who live to fight another day. Beautiful Jamshedpur through three days of trance could best be defined at such a juncture by quoting from Bard Rabindranath’s impression on the Taj Mahal, “… A tear-drop of love on the cheek of eternity.”
