My friend Rohit

Take 1 - scene 1st day in the engg coll..

19th Oct 2000, my first day in my engineering college...
this is when I met Rohit for the very first time. Our meeting was a very small one though and we had simply exchanged pleasantaries .
we immediately had developed a liking for each other... we planned to get our rooms together.. somehow i managed to loose my fees payment receipt and got late to register for the hostel room... what happened was Rohit got rooom no 16 and i got room no 21 which was on the next floor... in retrospect i dont repent that incident though...considering the fact that if i had stayed put with him i wudn't have managed to pass a single exam :)
that day, however we dint stay back in the hostel and went back to bangalore in Nilu's car which his dad ( the same guy who had once said "Priyanka ke die elam" :D :D ) had brought. Both of us came back the next day, the 20th on which our college was formally opening.

Take 2 - Scene - Days from the 1st year in my college

Rohit's not staying on my floor hardly had made any difference...he was mostly found meandering on our floor only...and especially during exams when found creating more panic in us, the already panic stricken....he was the satan..always bringing bad news which ranged from how good the others were prepared and how much we had to do and how tuf the previous years Q paper was etc etc... Never mind we managed his non-sense unwillingly...
But yes we became the best of pals...
**a small incident from the 1st year that i recollect today is when we both used to go for graphics tuitions...we both were waiting outside the hostel gate waiting for the cab..but for some reason none was turning up...suddenly i found a lift on a bike and carried on...while he stayed back...no one would believe now but Rohit was so pissed off with me after the incident that i really had to pledge that day that such a thing wont be repeated...

Take 3 - Scene cigarette butts and my window

Come 2nd year, we shifted hostels...and once again we were not staying together...and I was once again thankful to my destiny that I dint have to tolerate this moron 24*7....but this time God was less forgiving...it was difficult to say whethere Rohit's full time address was room no 211(my room) or 201(originally allocated to him)... especially during the exams when my bed became a permanent fixture for him and while i managed to catch some sleep only on the "kursi-table".. and God-forbid my parents never planned to visit me during exams...else they would have surely thought I have become a chained smoker, considering the number of cigarette butts that he managed to collect and virtually making the small spance beneath the window into an ash tray.. and all this time what added to my pain was that I had to listen to his total non-sense... but i still stuck with him...he was turning out to be one of my best friends...

Take 4 - Ganesh Rao

finally during the 3rg year i managed to move out of the hostel, to improve my living standard... :D... and of course sans the pain-in-the ass named Rohit....i believed that i wont have to see this guy anymore...but who can change the destiny.... to fend off an enemy named 'DSP' i had taken refuge under the tuition of "Sir" Ganesh Rao... who would have known that Rohit would also join the tuition...and guess what... he planned to stay put with me...
in the long run in fact he would come to be known as our un-official room mate...un official since he dint pay the rent :) although occupying more space than me and my room mate put together...
meanwhile as we were growing senior in the college our intentions of attending the classes had reduced drastically.... add to that, this guy's devilish thoughts...he invariably managed to sleep for 18hrs a day and in the process motivating the highly motivated souls like mine and kanti(my official room mate) to not attend college...and even when we intended to he would make sure that by his emotional balckmailing we dint make it to the college...that was his aura...
but we were now great friends...going to bro...

Take 5- Final year of engineering

I shifted base and moved into a bigger abode...rohit however stuck like a leech...still maintaing his un-official status...we ended up taking tuitions from Ganesh Rao once again and he moved on to become my partner in crime when we stole burgers from Food world in Sanjay Nagar...
He created mess with my newly purchased computer ( i had found spoons from under my monitor and noodles from inside my keyboard, all thanks to him)....he disturbed full-on during exams by playing Quake 3 on full volume whole night... but now i was kinda habituated to his non sense....
we maintained our status quo...

Take 6 - The departed

As we passed out of our college and got bothered about our jobs we had hardly found time to bid goodbye to each other...i dont remember having hugged him for one last time...but now i had a feeling of something amiss... i dint find a messy creature around...it took a bit of time to settle but yes we were now operating out of 2 different worlds...but we kept contact with each other over the phone....oh here i need to mention one significant characteristic of his...he is a one big time lazy bum...i can give him a bonus here for owning one Big Bum literally and thus not being able to move it fast...but he had the unique quality of not being able to move it at all...now i had to mention this because he actually doesnt move his bum till date... i say this because he would never do the hounour of calling me...i would abuse him everytime i called him and he happily obliged...

Take 7 - Climax

I stopped callng him sometime back...and he dint call me back either...Probably we were getting too busy with our lives...
This idiot in fact dint bother to inform about his whereabouts until one day when i came to know that he was getting married... and finally the day came...21st Nov,08...i got a call..."us raat ek phone aya"...."wo rohit ka tha"...
Our conversation ensued, with me abusing him as usual...and then came to normal human to human talks...and then he asked me "bhai tune ticket kara liya hai na"...
yes i had done it i said....
We were now bros...

Rohit....my best wishes with you dear....
But at the same time I think it becomes my moral responsibility to warn Moneesha :D of this person of so many un-human like qualities....
May GOD bless you both !! Amen !!

*******************************the writing above is purely a work of non-ficttion...any similarity with a person named Rohit would be purely intentional****************************

War on Terror - and my views on Pakistan

There seems to be something that people are not able to digest about the bit in my previous post where I have mentioned "Pakistan" or rather abused them...I wonder what wrong have I stated there...
1) When I refer Pakistan, of course I dont mean each and every household..my point is would anyone ever refer to India's policies as Indian govt's policies...??? it would still be written as Indian policy only...so my stating pakistan is a generalised comment about the govt of Pakistan and not each and every human being there.
2) Secondly, even if one considers the fact that I blame each and every human being of Pakistan, I dont see anythign wrong there as well...considering both of us share the same history..(almost)..still in the last 50yrs - they havent managed a single stable govt..their economy is running on the will and mercy of IMF...and their head of the state is all but respected.
3) The funniest thing about pakistan that i came across recently..and this is something that some of their "intellectuals" seem to believe -> "if we take away animosity against India, then Pakistan's founding itself becomes questionable." - Hahaha...what an Idea sir jee...

4) Many Pakistanis themselves are starting to question the relevance of a country where more people are killed in intra-religious warfare between Shias and Sunnis than in Hindu-Muslim communal riots in India.

I hope I have made my points clear here...