From Md. Musfiqur Rahman Sifat: BAU, Mymensingh – Gossiping, called ‘adda’ in Bangla, is a popular form of spending leisure time in the university with friends. Students believe adda gives campus life rhythm. After passing 14 years of school and college life we entered at university life where we find life’s best time. In university life, everyone get vast freedom to build their daydreams success which is not fulfilling in their school and college times.
The Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) is a place for rich diversity of activies in academic, cultural, sports, movie, debating areas which make the campus pulsate with life. In our semester system, sometimes we get bored in day-long pressure of theoretical-practical classes. To get rid of routine-monotony, ‘adda’ is our common method to recharge energy for body and mind. We engage in adda meetings without schedule or without any set topic also. Pre-planed schedule of adda sometime drags on for whole night or day.
‘Adda’ however creates a scope to expand one’s knowledge. Usually friend’s express their inner feelings in adda that removes their depression, frustration, misery and makes them energetic. Adda may vary from one group to another, friends to friends on the based on their mental make-up, ideology, perspectives, perception and academic interests. From the beginning of the university life of a student each street in the campus asociated with stories occupies permanent places in sweet memories. New stories, dreams are composed everyday in every class room, hall room, common room, market, corridor or playground of this campus. The main Centres of our gossip meetings are Kamal-Ranjit market, TSC, Jobbarer More, Rail-line, Bijoy 71’, Old Brahmaputra River bank, Bangabandhu Chattor, Wi-Fi zone and the Botanical garden.
Different social, cultural, political and voluntary organizations including Badhan, Debate, Rotaract Club, Rover scout arrange their weekly, monthly or unscheduled meetings which often take the form of adda in the BAU campus.
Sometimes at night, sound of melodious songs emerge from middle of the Brahmaputra River which touches everyone’s heart. In all 13 residential halls, sometimes gossiping continues for hours occasionally till dawn.
The pace of campus life will be stopped if the gossip meetings (adda) don’t take place as usual. The campus life, specially the life in the residential halls is full of scattered dreams and informal meetings that make life more entertaining and colorful. It’s pretty sure a residential student will have a treasure of golden memory of dormitory days for the rest of his life. – Md. Musfiqur Rahman Sifat, BAU Correspondent
