MTIFF 2011 -fragmented journal

SEVEN days ago.... I started the ball rolling. Thursday, 28th July- 4pm. It's raining cats and dogs. The filthy water from the street is pouring into the resource centre driveway. It's getting flooded. It's an hour before the steering committee meeting. I've invited several important people to this small house - most will be stepping in for the first time... and into ankle deep water in the driveway!

I sigh and look at the Church across the street and  tell the Man upstairs - It's your saint we're talking about here, so can't you turn off the waterworks for a couple of hours to let people to the meeting?

Fifteen minutes later, there's no rain, and the ankle deep water has actually seeped out without leaving a trace of mud!

People start arriving... Dr Shanker Dutt [Chairperson Sangeet Natak Academy] Fr Nishaant vice-principal St Xavier's College, Alan Cowell represnting the Anglo Indian community, Ejya Yadav on behalf of Women's College ... by 5:15 Namrata from The Hindustan Times, Fr Premlal  from SIGNIS, Ravi Bharati are here ... I start a video to explain the background of MTIFF [am disappointed that there's no sign of the VG, when the phone rings - The Vicar General and the local Superior of the Missionaries of Charity are fifteen minutes away.

So our first steering committee meeting takes place. And as the guests start leaving,  a few warning drops of water fall from the heavens. As the last one leaves, the rain is back ...