The PlayList...

Music and songs have always been a special part of college life. No matter what the occasion be, without music, it would be incomplete. During my four years there were some songs, which I will always remember more for why they were sung or played than it’s music or lyrics. The songs that take me back to the time when I heard them, to the people they were heard with, giving a reason to remember the awesome days and bringing back a smile.

With 5th Year anniversary since ragging around , this can be a playlist of our memories.

10. Now Or Never :- Song by a band called dope, after listening to which Smaran had decided to form his own band, in which he would be the LEAD VOCAL GUITARIST. Over the years he did prove his skills as a lead vocal, especially during the exam time. Now if he can only learn how to ‘pull strings’, he might actually be able to accomplish his dreams.

9. Bang Bang Bang ( Hello) :- The song came out b4 the GL party at my home, and I remember everyon had “one step” that displayed the essence of “bang “ ,and this bang was in know were related to a gun shot. The moves showed what bang actually was.

8 Masti :- It was the first HIV 2k5 dance. And credits to Ravish, Gogi and Nunz , brilliant dancers like me and Rohan also managed to pull of a show at the dance night. One of the funny things about the dance was, J being there for all three songs and getting less camera time than me. In fact poor guy was hardly seen in the video.

7. Right Na Na Na :- One of the most heard Akon song towards the ned of our college life. It was Sharad’s room where I first heard it. And I remember Gogi, Ravish and Sharad displaying some dance moves which gave the “make up” an impression of “ make love”.

6. In the End :- I am not really about the Linkin park version, though it was heard playing often in the old 2k5 lobby. This song had a yet another not so popular version. I doubt it was heard by everyone among us. But I think it was the first time I had heard anything original by Mr Gogzzz , and he had dedicated it , with lots of love to the brain of our batch , Smaran Sanadhya , during the days when the maths wiz was desperate to wake up for morning walks.

5. Billo Rani/ Paani Them Them :- This was the set of the songs for the 2nd HIV 2K5 performance as a batch on BITOTSAV Stage. Performed within the confusion of the fight between 2k3 and the profs. The song had likes of me and chabra dressed in salwar as Billo Rani to give a duet look. To be soon followed by my super slow cat walk across the stage on song Paani them them , that almost caused enough worry for ravish on the stage to have asked me to walk faster off the stage.

4. Pehla Nasha :- I used to love the song, but now I hear it and I can think of only 1 person. There was a period when this was the only song to be heard if your near Sharad. The songs spanned through our initial days of meeting each other. Playing Pranks, and me and Shrikar’s case, discovering secrets by going through an innocent Sharad’s messages. The song lasted till Sharad met the true love of his life, in form of CS.

3.Kajara Re:- If there would be one song that could define our ragging, it would be this one. And if there was one person who could bust the same moves as Aish in our batch, it would be Shalu the Chaluguy. It seemed there was no session complete without us dancing on kajra re. And Shaleen always used to be the show stealer.

2. Tarzan and Jane :- Whenever I hear the song, I can actually see Gogi jumping around the lobby. We were caught by J’s Favourite professor, chota chatri (RK Narayan) before M3[ which later all 4 of us flunked] and had a half an hour lecture on okhal and mosal, the reason to which I am yet ignorant.

Finally one song that stand apart from all the rest, primarily because of the man it was sung by accompanied by the mystical events that followed. Shrikar actually managed to blow up a tubelight just by the power of his voice while singing Saawan me lag gayi Aag. Most will say it’s unbelievable, but I was a witness to it, along with Amit. First time, when he sang the tubelight filled with smoke. Than he stopped, observed and resumed. This was too much for the tube to handle. It decided to make way for the Neon.

I might have got some details wrong. Please people feel free to correct me. I know there have been other memorable songs, but these are the ones that came to my head. Please add the ones you remember as comments

They'll call me Freedom.......

When I get older
I will be stronger
They will call me freedom
Just like a waving flag.

Simple 4 stanzas from the Fifa World cup theme song, those describe the irony of life.

How many times, we have found ourselves thinking that in future, life will be different, better. I think Mota will remember this; we had to wear half pants till class 5th. In class 5th we kept waiting for the year to get over, because full pants seemed cooler. Once we reached class 6th pants were least of the concern. We had become juniors, yet again.

From that time, the last 2 years of school looked the best. We again found ourselves waiting to be older, free from basic rules like doing homework on time and bringing notebooks for all subjects. And slowly we reached class 11th. We had always seen our seniors bunking classes, having a ball, bullying others. We had no intention, of being anything different. But once we reached 11th we came to know the truth. 11th, 12th came as a disappointment to our expectation. There was too much to study for, and too less time. Not that it stopped us from partying, but it always ended up creating a guilt factor.

We entered college, Freedom at last. Freedom from wearing a uniform. Freedom from subjects we didn't need.(It is now that i realize we never need any subject to do the work i am doing right now.)Freedom from being continously told what to do.Freedom from returning home after a fixed time. But from day 1 school seemed so much better. Probably it was because of initial ragging.Freedom was yet another illusion. Dress code existed as formals 24/7. Not only we ended up taking care of things like cleaning room and doing work for ourselves, but we were doing the same for the rest of the hostel. From the start of ragging people kept waiting for the day it would end and we would be free from all troubles. Well once it ended, for some of us it still remains, the most memorable time of our college.

The 2nd Year, the much awaited time to rag came .Freedom from doing our own work. We were finally seniors. But ragging brought along its own set of problems. And it ended up rather painfully. “The bat incident”. All the risky times, when guards showed up. The complain. We had to be careful,cautious.General reminders everyday from home not to be involved in any such activity. And we always had our seniors, monitoring our ways of ragging. Though it was fun, we couldn’t do exactly as we pleased. Freedom always had a line of control, which was not supposed to be treaded past. 2k5 will remember , the objection 2k4 had when we assigned 'Guard duty' to 2k6. Or how Yasir didn't want us to call of ragging.

We waited for reaching the final year. When there would be no one to question us. We would be the authority. But freedom yet walked away from us. It started with Tension of placements (yet another hope of bringing freedom).Followed by a world of problems.(The only freedom i got was when it was decided to free him from my room, and it wasn't pleasent) . Soon we found ourselves waiting for the day, when we would no longer have to get up to go for attending lectures.

As the end of college drew closer, the freedom didn’t seem as pretty as it had looked before. We had almost achieved the freedom we wanted. We were not attending classes. Spending all the time, together. Vellagiri had reached its max. But such a thing was not meant to last. College got over. We separated.

Most got their wish. Joining came. We were placed. Independent from home (Poor Niyati). Somehow the older we grew, the further the freedom went. As of now the cost to meet friends is minimum 6k. For saving that 6k, we work 48 hours a week. Cut down expenditures. It would have been much better to stay back in college meet the same people for free and attend lectures with them , partying all the time, rather than being in the place where most of us are right now. Atleast at that time we had the freedom to bunk if we didn’t like a lecture.

We constantly find ourselves hoping as the future changes, as we grow old, things will get better. We will be more independent. But more we traverse in future, the better past seems. If only we had realised the value of present during that time, rather then putting high hopes on future.

By growing older, we are supposed to be independent, but independence brings responsibility which in turns obstructs freedom. The more independent we get, lesser time we get to cherish and enjoy life.

Maybe it's time we stop singing...

When I get older
I will be stronger
They will call me freedom
Just like a waving flag.

Dead Man Walking.......

Happy B’day :)

One fine day , Long long time ago, I met a boy with a long name, living in room no. 6 of in hostel no. 4 in a place called BIT Mesra. Long name generally isn’t a problem, but for us it was. Specially, since we were supposed to remember the spelling, and it was one messed up name in that regard. The boy did have brains and was hardworking, this made him quite different with the breed of people he had ended up with. His wits were on display everywhere, especially in ragging sessions where he generally never used to get any facts wrong except for the legendary “CALL OFF NIGHT” where poor guy didn’t get single fact right.

Watching him study for first mid-sems, I realised two things.

1. This guy is going to be one of the highest scorers in the batch
2. He has some major maths issues.

One thing about raging is, if you get a nick name by seniors, it’s going to stick for a long time. Well the boy always had a dead man expression, as if he was about to choke slam the person in front and asking a senior to read between the lines did not help his cause. And so he was named UNDERTAKER and, boy, would he have been glad if that nick name didn’t change to what it became.

Given a choice, I doubt he would have ever kept me in his team. But we ended together , first in Kamshad( well it was a 2k5 batch team) , HIV( Sharad , Shrikar, Mota, Boy, Jess, me and we did have a draw with the best 2k2 team) and finaly after several ditching incidents, Genesis(The Boy, Jay, me). Kamshad , I still have a video of him charging with Shrikar to the umpire, asking to give bibek out ‘hitwicket’ on a no ball. In genesis we had our moments especially Spin a yarn:-

( I looked down and I realized I forgot to wear pants, after spending all brains and building a nice humorous story together , the star of our story reached ED lab where once again he was stripped thanks to The undertaker)

KLPD night, the boy missed the big announcement by 2 minutes. When he reached the dreaded 2k2 lobby, everyone was standing in a line and he was smirking. Well he ended up encountering a pissed of mandy .

Soon after the raging got over, the nickname changed, courtesy mota I guess, first to Undeshwari and than modified further to the Great

...................................UNDI ..................................

Undi never had a problem with his nickname though, atleast I never heard him cribbing about it, or even if I did, we were a good batch, we ignored such trivial issues.

So Undi as we know him today had travelled from Sidhartha Maheshwari to Undi.Undi was always very focused , the man with a plan, hard working as hell. But this did not prove him to be a innocent little maru. When it came down to pranks(Haraamipan as some like to call it) Undi was no less than a pro.An active member of the EVS lab with full attendance, his greatest venture according to me was flicking of shrikar’s laptop (with a minor flaw of him leaving his slippers behind because mota lost the track of the plan while feasting on chocolate coins). He was a member of band of chocolate raiders.

Not only did he team up to play brilliant pranks , but he used to take pranks well even when played on him or in some cases played on someone else and him taking a blow.

Once we had a pile on on his bed. It was more than a pile on , but i don't have the words to describe it. All i remember is that shard was down adn Sujith was a t the top with a lot of other people sandwiched between. We broke Undi's bed , while he was preparing for end sem. He never blamed anyone.

A call at 2 in the night today(because I would have forgotten to wish him tomorrow) reminded me of a certain routine we shared. We used to study in different rooms, we used to study in different ways, and we used to take breaks at different times. But one thing was common , whenever we used to take a break , we would go to the other person’s room and disturb him. May be only for 5 minutes , or maybe, if discussion became interesting for longer. Not to forget that every night during exams, he could be found in mota’s room, waiting for hot Maggi.

Undeshwari was always very talented. Brilliant at G.K and equally good at English. Full of confidence. A Tnp member( I am sitting in Wipro office and I do give him credits for it). Super hardworking , coming second maybe only to Smaran.(I may feel this because we always heard smaran studying,whereas for undi we had to see to realize that he’s studying).He was a maru, vey particular about money transactions. But he did take over 2 years to return my Rs 450 because i was too lazy to go and ask for it and he was too lazy to come and give it.(Money was finally returned when i owed Jay cash and he widrew it from Undi's account without Undi's knowledge).

P.s : I am so sure once he’s done reading this , he would say ‘Haaaiinnnn’ ( I dunno how to spell it but I expect 2k5 people to remember this sound.)

Supple's Nitty Gritty...........2 (750)

The waiter approached. "Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" "Huh?" said Ford. "Huh?" said Arthur. "Huh?" said Trillian. "That's cool," said Zaphod, "we'll meet the meat."

"Resturant at the end of universe" came up with the solution to the debate of "killing of animals for meat" by growing an animal that wanted to be eaten.

Unfortunately in our world, this has not yet been possible, so here goes.....

According to food habits, humans can be broadly classified into two categories- Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian. Vegetarians are the people who believe in eating only plants and plant products , whereas non vegetarians ,they eat anything they get. But there has always been a conflict between these two categories though not very large in scale but still good enough to let a jobless person like me give it a thought. Reason of conflict, well if I am to summarize it, I would say “Non vegetarians (the ones I know) don’t see anything wrong in eating whatever they get and believe that vegetarians are missing something brilliant in life by not eating ‘CHICKEN’ and so begins their conquest to encourage the vegetarians to start eating ‘CHICKEN’, whereas vegetarians (not all of them) believe that they are right in eating only plants, not hurting animals, and some of them have even tried to convert non vegetarian to veggies.

Generally, live and let live should be followed but at times people just can’t help interfering. So here are some facts for my vegetarian friends who think eating non veg. is a sin.

Let’s start from the beginning of time. When human’s came into existence, they started off as vegetarians. Roaming from place to place, gathering food. It was not an easy task and required lot of time and effort. Also in off-seasons, they had to move locations in order for search of food. And then they learnt hunting. Hunting and gathering together brought stability to their existence.Realizing that river banks provided nice hunting grounds ,as the animals came to drink water and also abundance of fishes in river, they slowly moved towards rivers and settled there. And that is where the first civilizations began. If they had not converted to non vegetarians they would not have been interested in animals, and thus never understood the difference between animals that could be tamed and beasts that had to be eliminated. So eating meat, had its contribution to bringing about civilization.

For eating meat being a sin, we would have to believe GOD does exist and humans were created by him. Well if you believe that full thing to be true than I would like to bring to your notice the structure of human jaw. Well, we have been given a pair of canine teeth which is generally absent in all herbivorous animals. If God meant us to be vegetarian, why did he give us a set of teeth that would have no use while eating plants? And if God doesn’t exist, the whole discussion is a waste because than there would be no concept of sin.

Now as far as the fact that vegetarians love animal more than non vegetarians, there could not have been a bigger misconception. Just because you don’t eat something, doesn’t mean you love them. Its’ definitely a lie if every vegetarian claims that they don’t eat meat because they like animals. How many people actually give a shelter to a dog, and moreover how many have actually kept a pet, that to a hen or a cock. Veggies claim that they don’t like hurting animals, well it has been scientifically proven that even plants are living, What about their feelings. Where does all the love for living go when you break fruits from the trees, or pull off full plants (killing them.) How come killing an animal is heartless but killing a plant is OK? And just for the record plants provide us with oxygen, greenery and shelter. I would like people to name advantages of having a flock of chicken running in your garden? From where I see it, by eating plants, not only are the veggies killing them but they are also slowly destroying the planet.

All said and done, “Most vegetarians are not the people who love animals, They are the ones who hate plants.”

Ps: Save the world , Buy Your own KFC Meal tonight :P

Change Change, Come again !!!!!! (360)

There once was a time in past
When we sat in canteen and had a blast
Slightly hungry, if we would ever be
Solution was always Chawla or Jungli.
Those were the times we prayed
“Everyday should remain the same
Our sweet life must never change”

Never forgotten will be the charm of LAN
CS, Dota and CS again
Day in and day out time we would waste
Downloading stuff and running to kill with haste.
Shooting each-other and abusing in volume high,
We would pray once again to thy
“Everyday should remain the same
Our sweet life must never change”

Memorable were the hostel events,
Be it Kamshad, Hiv, the super sixes.
Ragging was always fun
KLPD was like chicken steak on a bun
EVS lab and nightlong argument
On topics that weren’t even remotely relevant
Done finally with all the work ,when we would be
Sitting together, we would again plead
“Everyday should remain same
Our sweet life should never change”

Countless, are the number of night
When, High was the state of everyone in sight
Listening to music and shouting so loud
That made, even a few of us look like a crowd
Though drunk, we once again prayed
“Everyday should remain the same
Our sweet life must never change”

And then, one day the exams came
Brought troubles that made our prayers change
Through day and night we had to slog
And to save time mess food we would hog
Still after every exam unsure of results when we would be
Meet each other and we would plead
“Every F***ing day’s the same
When will our life change?”

Of the many prayers, the one that got an answer
Caused the change and made us falter
We were thrown to different parts of the nation
Forcing us to be filled with frustration
Not knowing if each-other we would ever see
Accepting that all of us together, might never again be
Now we work hard day and night
Pleasure time has been reduced out of sight
Time forces us to wonder once more
"Every day’s the same
When will the stupid change come again?”

Supple's Nitty-Gritty......1 (711)

How many times we have seen each other exclaim, ‘I have become so fat’. Recently Mohit’s status stated that he gained hell lot of weight when he was at home. Most of us gain weight at an incredible rate when we are at home. Even though, we might be eating the same regular meal that we always eat. Sitting in office today, utterly jobless that I am, I was wondering why this bizarre phenomenon occurs?

A lot of things come up, whenever we discuss gain of weight at home. Apparently food is good, so we end up eating more is one of the prime reasons, which is always stated. But think of it, even at home you do not overeat at every meal. You eat till you are full and same thing you did in college. In fact while in college, you ended up eating way unhealthier food than what you get at home. Still it is at home that you gain weight, and not in college (certain exceptions always occur). You might say that it is because the food is cooked in ghee, but how often is that the case?

In my four years of stay in B.I.T, I gained around 2 kg of weight. And six month since, at home, I gained another 4 kg. And in my 2 month stay in Chennai I gained an awful 6 kg.

This got me wondering what was different in my BIT stay as compared to my stay in other places. In Chennai I was not getting home food, the food was same as college, I was regularly playing basketball and walking (exercising and sweating) way more than what I do, either at home or in college. Yet I ended up gaining more weight as compared to either home or college.

From above I concluded, it was not the physical exercise that had been controlling my weight in college, nor was it because the type of food I got. There was something else, something different, and something that everyone had overlooked over the years.

And than it sunk in, the only difference between my habits in Chennai and college were, in Chennai I used to order my own food and eat it from my plate. Whereas, in college, hardly did I ever order food. Sharing was my motto. And I always used to eat from other people’s plate. In order to name the people on whose food I have lived my college life, I will need a whole new blog. It would start from Ravs, Mota & 2k5 rise upto Akku , Amit in 2k2 and slope down to Akash , Tauroski in 2k7.

In college it had become a second nature for most of us to see food in other’s plate and consider it our own. There were always people who ordered their own food. And these people somehow gained more weight than compared to others.

From this I conclude a fact: Your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. This indeed means that if you keep eating from what other people order, you will not grow fat.

Even during school days, students who share their tiffin and don't eat their own are generally thinner as compared to children who just eat only their own tiffin.(Mota is an exception here, he used to share tiffin but ate major part of all the tiffins that existed in class including his own.)Any other exceptions in the school days that occur , maybe because the children have only 1 meal in school to share and rest at their home, which cannot be shared forcing them to eat from their own plate.

I will give yet another example to back this fact. Ever wondered why most girls are thin when they are going out and become fat when they are single? Or why they gain weight at a lesser pace when they are in a committed relationship? And why for guys, weight doesn’t really depend on any such factor?

Think about it!!!

P.s : People with increased metabolism rate like Sharad, Gogin are exceptions to this theory.

The Double Teaching !!! (847)

There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. Suddenly he took a great breath and sang out, "Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!"

The villagers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the wolf away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found no wolf. The boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces.

"Don't cry 'wolf', shepherd boy," said the villagers, "when there's no wolf!" They went grumbling back down the hill.

Later, the boy sang out again, "Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!" To his delight, he watched the villagers run up the hill to help him drive the wolf away.

When the villagers saw no wolf they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don't cry 'wolf' when there is NO wolf!"

But the boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more.

Later, he saw a REAL wolf prowling about his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, "Wolf! Wolf!"

But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come.

At sunset, everyone wondered why the shepherd boy hadn't returned to the village with their sheep. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping.

"There really was a wolf here! The flock has scattered! I cried out, "Wolf!" Why didn't you come?"

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village.

"We'll help you look for the lost sheep in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth, "Nobody believes a liar...even when he is telling the truth!"

The moral of the story is very obvious, You should not lie. This is the moral that we were taught by our parents, they were taught by theirs, and so on.

But if only a part of story is considered i doubt it can be fully appreciated. The story has another teaching.

Let us look at the story from the wolf's view.

There once lived a she wolf with tiny little cubs. As little cubs grew, she wanted to teach them to hunt. The young wolves had learnt how to hunt down smaller animals like rats. But they were always edgy. Wanted to be fast while hunting.Just to show off to others that they are the best hunters. Their recklessnes often caused them to get hurt as well as allowing the prey to run away.

As the wolf grew old she grew worried about habits of the cubs. So one day she said "Ccome children, i will teach you how to hunt a sheep".

Children got excited but exclaimed," Mother, you said it was dangerous to go near humans and their pets".

She replied "Don't worry, I'll be there".

So on a fine day mother wolf and cubs went to hunt a Sheep. The shepeard boy was there. Mother wolf just walked in front and showed herself. The boy saw her and screamed "wolf,wolf" . But by the time villagers could run up the hill, she hid .

That night cubs were dissapointed. They thought their strong mother was actually scared. Meanwhile in village the villagers scolded the boy for lying.

Next day, again the mother and the cubs went on a sheep hunt. Again the mother repeated the same thing.

And the next day, and next. This continued for a while.

Soon the cubs grew impatient. They told their mother they would rather hunt and live by eating rats, than to see her fail everyday.

But the mother was calm as ever. She requested them to accompany her for one more time.

The next day, she again came out of hiding and the boy shouted again, but as we know no one came for help. To the surprise of the young wolves, who thought their mother will yet again be scared and go back to hiding , the mother wolf moved easily and hunted down the sheeps who had no protection. Following her lead, even the younger wolves devoured the helpless sheeps without any resistance.

That night after the best meal they ever had, the mother explained

"Today you are strong and fast,
so you kill prey that aren't so vast.
Though i pray for thee
strong forever you will never be
Understand this
Difference exists
between hunting by might
to satisfy your pride
and hunting by wit
where you will never take a hit
Smart and patient if you will be
mightier foes will for thee.
knowing the right time to strike is the key
to fill the stomach that's empty "

In short terms the story teaches you to be patient and wait for the right oppurtunity.

P.s : In the second para of the story the boy did not laugh because he had fooled the villagers,but he laughed at the wolf who he thought had been outwitted and scared by him.

Share , coz We Care(339)

Dilemmas fill our life
But we keep learning how to strive
Sooner or later the troubles mount so high
That you decide to resign
This is the hour indeed
When stupid friends advices you need to heed
You think you can take a refuge
Hide somewhere hoping the time purge
But remember alone you will never heal
and next time when the same thing u feel
You try to escape and will not be strong enough to deal
With the problem that is real
When you’re troubled you won’t like
Even the best things that passes by
You won’t see what you need
Your wants will blinden your deed
You will get your self in more trouble
And curse the fate for being inequitable
What can the poor lady luck decide
When your taking long wrong strides
Walking a path of destruction
Why not hold hands to be pulled for resurrection
These hands belong to friends
Who laugh, cry and share all ends
You say you are irritated
But when asked y? you are silent
You say you r pissed
But y? silence again
Silence in you causes pain
To those who care in amounts insane
Don’t you see your sadness cloud the eyes
Of each who feels the pain inside
You think hiding your feeling might be a key
But how will you manage it to hide it from me
I know u well , I know u fine
Every lie u say to hide
Will burn this heart of mine
So don’t think twice and share your hitch
And I promise never to ditch
don’t say ‘leave It’
Because as naruto says believe it
I am not the one to yield
Will be there next to you on the field
Trying to help you evade all pain
I will push you to a plane
Where there is only joy
Where we can together enjoy
The ideal dream world we want
Away from the nightmares that haunt
The happiness away from our lives.

The Worst Death.....(633)

Death as we know,is just another word that means end of a life. It is generally accompanied with lot of sad faces, hysterical sobs and close people trying to remember the GOOD OLD TIMES. But death generally is not limited to a person or a living being dying. It has a wider meaning. Death also stands for end of time.

Whenever anything ends, it brings about same reaction among people as loosing a close thing would bring. They miss the thing that's ended, they cry about the fun times they had, Laugh at the tough times. The prime example of this would be our own college life. Till we were in College , we wanted to get out of it. But now that we are out of it, most of us want to be back there. Whenever a bunch of us meet , we invariably end up reminiscing the awesome time we had in college , the drunk nights and specially all the time we wasted trying to take someone else's case.

Death is not just restricted to end of time or life. Even emotions can die. That's how we come across a cold blooded person. A cold blooded person is basically someone who does not have any emotions , or basically all his emotions have died. ( Where i am concerned generally almost everyone reading this becomes cold blooded :-( .)Death of all emotions sounds bad, but there actually exists a worse death.

Death of Hope. Hope, the only good thing that came out of the Pandora's box. The one thing that keeps us moving forward ,even though we are having worst times. Now imagine this hope dying. I am sure, most of us at some point have lost hope in something or the other. If you have , than you must have realized loosing hope , is just like loosing your way in a maze. Once you loose hope, no matter how much you try you will not be able to get out of the maze or get success in what you are doing. Hope has a direct bond with Will, If you loose hope than you don't see a point in applying will and hence loose interest in whatever chances of achieving the goal,you had.

Death of hope can have a lot of side effects. Because unlike other deaths only the knows what they have lost, and at times even they are not sure if you have actually lost something important. Once people loose hope, it is followed by death of lot of other things, starting from will to achieve. They start shying off from their duties. They loose interest in relationships , friendship. They hope to take a time out from life which makes the burden of loosing hope worse. Crowded by the clouds of despair, people end up doing things they actually never intended to, things that they think will help them but actually the things that end up screwing them over and over again.

Let us all go back and reflect at the Pandora's box. Of a million evils that came out, there came along hope. This hope should not be allowed to die. There are always times when you feel like giving up on something. Loosing faith in your capabilities. These are the times when you see hope fading away. These are the times when you need to sit and muster all your strength and will , to keep that hope alive. If you are lacking the will , take help and advice from friends and family. And if you see your friends letting their hope in something die, than step in without thinking and, in mota's word "2 thaapad maroo , sab kuch theek ho jayega" . Well that's the easiest way to bring back someone to senses.

Ps: please hope for things that can happen.

The Poison ivy in Us…

Poison ivy, Dictionary Meaning: vine causing itching rash

Well, only the writers of Dc comics will be able to tell us , what came to their minds when they created a villainess out of a poor plant. Perhaps one of the most scientifically advanced , super mutated villainess. And obviously she was hot. As her abilities grew , she developed a special skill “Kiss of the death” . As the name suggests whoever was kissed by voluptuous ivy dies.

Ivy was literally able to control people with weak mind using her odor. In fact she almost managed to captivate everyone apart from Batman , Superman included(another proof as to why superman sucks, smelled a woman and became her bodyguard)into doing her bidding.

What is special about ivy is that she wasn’t evil or mutated by birth. In fact she was rich and naïve. Thanks to her bio-tech professor’s experiments, she got mutated. And through the series , it was seen that there were lot of time poor girl tried to reform , but either some people of her own league asked for her assistance or the community forced her to be vengeful.

This brings us to notice an important aspect of our own life. We all started like innocent kids(at least most of us). Than we reached college and were given the freedom we never had at home. We met seniors who helped us grow(mutation). Studies took a back seat. Late night football. As per Shaleen’s own words “ we have become the people our parents asked us not to hang out with”. There were times when one or another of us realized that we needed to focus. But as ivy was approached by Clayface and Dr Freeze , our own pals came to us and brought us back to the so called “injustice league” . We stuck together doing things that have been considered wrong by institute. Which includes things from staying out of institute till 3 in night(KLPD night) , breaking roses from rose garden or playing cricket in lobby. Oh I forgot to mention ragging.And towards the end even girls defying the end time(staying at my place or in town) for night outs.Boozing throughout the night and at times even before an exam. Most of these things were for purpose of fun.

Once upon a time Ivy took a small inhabited island , changed it using her abilities to a garden. But before she started living happily , a research company from Gotham came over and destroyed the place because they needed the land, forcing her to be vengeful again. Even we have been through this. The system hurt us with rules like 70% attendence ,extra classes. Forcing us to be vengeful , making us break rules. Proxys and bunking classes became a second nature to us. I remember spending full days in canteen , doing absolutely nothing. I doubt anyone ever attended 8 am lectures on time.


In another appearance ivy was manipulated by Riddler. I am sure that at some point of time we have been in both ivy’s place and in the place of Riddler. Manipulation to such an extent that none of us can ever stand up and say “it wasn’t my fault” . All of HIV will remember nunny’s message to smaran saying “I Love u”. For one ,Gogi tried to make, an ivy out of all of us, when it came down to him and D. But even Poison ivy managed to escape from the control of riddler and so did we.

I have a world of examples , but I will leave it for sometime else , just in case Gogi comes up with another IDEA to molest my writing skills.

If i have wings, why should i walk?

A penguin might ask this to it’s mother just after being born. I guess the mother would explain there wings are for swimming. Also since penguins generally don’t meet any other birds apart from arctic tern , I doubt little penguins have a lot to compare. Chicken on the other hand teaches it’s chicks to fly,but just little. Ostrich might explain that flying is for birds that are small and cannot protect themselves. But i doubt this a question asked by birds.

Once upon a time , there was an inventor named Dedalus (designed labyrinth ). He was imprisoned when Thesus escaped from the maze. Dedalus designed waxed wings for his son and himself to fly and escape from the prison. During the escape the naïve son, Icarus decided to enjoy the flight and flew high, as he reached closer to sun the wax melted and Icarus fell . A similar story in hindu mythology is is about Jatayu(vulture who tried to save sita when Ravan was abducting her) and his brother. The brothers used to have competition to see ,who could fly higher. Once Jatayu ended to close to sun , but the elder brother covered him using his own wings , in process burning his own wings and living flightless for rest of his life.

All of us have different talents. Talents which we once thought will make us the star of the world. We dreamt to be the best. But yet , most of us ended up choosing a path no way related to our talents. 3 Idiots displayed brilliantly that if you have a talent , you should follow a career which is related to that talent and you would meet success. The Alchemist, is a story about a man leaving everything and following his dreams. But is this possible in our world? If we have wings, does it really mean that we should just start flying?

I don’t think so. Not because I lack wings. But because I think walking is important . Most of us are well off . Some of us are even well of to leave what we are doing and follow our dreams. But these will not be our wings , these are the artificial wings that y\we have been provided because our ancestors have wallked all their life. And high chances that we wouldn’t understand where we are flying to? Have a look at Rohan Gavaskar . With the artifical waxed wings gifted to us by our parents,We might set aim too low and end up wetting the feathers of our wings, or try to fly high enough that the wax melts. Either case we fall hard , maybe hard enough that we even loose the ability to walk.

Even the birds that fly, spend time walking behind their mothers. What I am trying to say here is that walking is important(though I hate it). Unless we walk we won’t understand pleasure of flying. And walking can be fun if you have good company. So it’s always worth to give walking a try. Specially if you have a phone(Walk and Talk, Wt an IDEA gogi?)

As the world is advancing, the walk is becoming more difficult, pushing the flight further away. Earlier people use to study till 10th , now till 12th before choosing their career. Soon a time will come that B.E , Btech ,BBA will become minimum criteria for any job . This is why it’s important for us to realize that we need to work harder before we start dreaming for anything. We need to walk to a secure place before we attempt to take a leap. So that even if we fall , we have something to hang on to. And that something is not someone else. This secure place can’t be reached by flying , and it is important to reach this place because without this security, you cannot afford to fly either alone or with your loved ones. The only way to this place is by taking a long and hard walk.

It is important to walk , and this is the reason why you shouldn’t start flying immediately , even if you have wings. Wait for the wings to grow. Work hard , be patient and walk carefully and steadily till you are ready to spread your wings, till you are confident to take that flight. And than you FLY. Fly away to glory. Because once your ready, the world will be yours.

I am Fat :'(

‘You’re a panda! He’s a panda! What u gonna do big guy? Sit on me?’ . I hope everyone remembers this line as well as me. Said by Tai Lung to cute Po , when he realized that Po was the Dragon Warrior. Well what happened next was just what lung asked for. Po did sit on him before giving the Wushi Finger hold. So the real question here is , did being fat ever come in the way of Po’s greatness.

Here , there and everywhere, people I know are majorly concerned about how fat they have become(most of these people aren‘t really fat). Being fat has it’s own advantages. Look at Po , he got trained into being a hero just because of his need for food. So why are people so concerned that they are becoming fat? It’s not that u won’t get clothes of your size.

Some people might reason that chicks don’t dig fat guys or vice versa. Well , all I have to say love is blind and knows no bar. Like personally I like big butts and I don’t know y? Like look at our own Mota , he’s doing brilliantly. An epic love story of shrek is good enough to show that I babe like Fiona can fall for an fat ogre.

Infact I think fat people who have made peace with the fact that they are fat are much better off than thin ones. What better example than our own Vijay Malya, he’s fat, drinks beer has awesome cheerleaders and is enjoying his life to fullest. Hugh hefner isn’t really what you would call thin but world’s sexiest babes( the babes you and I would die for) are with him. John Travolta , name one girl who doesn’t think he’s sexy.

Well people might say fat people don’t go well with sports. Arjuna Ranatunga did win the world cup for sri lanka. In WWE when it was decided to publicize a love machine , instead of going for a thin Macho wrestler , they picked a 485 pound Viscera. Ramesh Powar did play for India ( this doesn’t really support anything but still).

All this shows that being fat isn’t really against you . And specially those people who just gain a little weight and start crying over it ,read carefully “ IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL” and you definitely don’t need to stop eating or continue cribbing about it. It’s not as if , if u start dieting you will end up with a 6 packs. A general trend shows people who are fat don’t really care( Mota, Tauro) and people who aren’t keep crying about it(Yangi, etc.). You would rather eat a fat sub rather than a skimpy burger, wouldn’t you.

So please stop worrying that you are fat, and as long as it’s tasty eat what you get or what you like , irrespective of whether it’s fattening or not, because you never know what the future holds for you. One day , you are sitting at home crying that there is no chicken for dinner and next day you’re in Chennai wondering what are going to eat for the next meal? Another dosa? Oh leave it, what choice do i have? “Anna 1 dosa aur 1 omlette”.

Ps: not meant for people with BMI above 28 . You People need exercise.

Going With The Flow.....

After a disastrous venture to an Italian resturant , me and my office mates decided to walk down the beach. A moonlit night and in a beach filled with couples, five of us walked like happy and honorable members of “L samaj” (almost same as DLC). As we closed in on the sea , we noticed crabs. Huge ones( the size that you would definitely want to cook and eat), waiting for the waves. They scuttled around the waves as if waiting for something. They kept moving from one side to another till a particular big wave came . With a smooth motion when the wave retreated ,it took along the crabs with it. The crabs having to put no efforts at all.

There’s a lot to be learnt from the crabs. What they exibit is epitome of patience. The importance of waiting for the right opportunity. Waves of different magnitude come and go. Different crabs wait for waves of different strength that suits them. Sooner or later, they come across the one that suits them the best. And this wave becomes the key to their success. It’s not just the crabs that show patience and move with a flow. Any predator waits for the right moment to get their prey. Cheetah has only 200 meters to catch it’s prey , and no matter if it’s the fastest animal , unless he times his attack to perfection ,it’ll have to go hungry.

Non dota players and non naruto fans can skip this paragraph.

Even faceless void needs to know when to use chronosphere or he will end up doing more damage to his own team rather than opponents. Unlike sasuke , Itachi was more skilled because he knew when to use Susano. Itachi’s battles flowed smoothly because he had patience, which gave him ability to use his abilities to a maximum. Consider Naruto , as the series grew and he became stronger, he slowly changed from a hyperactive knucklehead to someone who had patience to monitor his opponents move, and thus succeeding in becoming one of the strongest characters.Who can forget shikamaru or byakuya, unperturbed by the situation, going with the flow of battle and finding a way to victory by waiting for the right moment.

But being patient does not mean ,doing nothing apart from waiting for the good luck to kick in. In that case, it’s going to be a very long wait . Even the crabs kept scurrying around waiting for the big wave to kick in. The cheetah lies low and slowly moves to good place before attack. Void needs to wind walk at a perfect place for chronosphere.
What I am trying to say is ,u cannot be still and hope to be swept by the flow of good luck. You have to keep moving and match frequency(clear your minds you perverts)of your motion with the flow of opportunity and only than will you find your lady luck lending you a helping hand. It’s important to know when to act but that doesn’t mean that till you find an opportunity to suit you, you shut yourself from the world and start praying. This is true in everything you do , be it hitting on a girl or trying to get a job or even clearing an exam.

So don’t spend time lazying around . Keep moving , keep fooling around and keep your frequency high. So when time comes , you can match the flow and take control of your luck. Take everything in your stride because you never know which tide will take u to the deep blue sea. (It is advisable not to go to the beach alone if you don’t know how to swim)

The Red Connection

Life is all about building relations and storing memories. Some memories are happy whereas others not so happy. Some incidents stick in the heads of people, while others are comfortably forgotten . Same goes for colors . People tend to remember some colors more than others. Of these red is the color that sticks in the head for the longest time. In fact, it is one of the most fascinating colors ,and also most ironical color.

Red is the color of heart , the symbol of love. On eve of Valentine’s day the whole world shines in red. Anyone whose ever been in love will definitely know the significance of red rose(especially the ones who have helped me pluck roses from rose garden). Red cross for world health. Red ribbon for anti aids . Red is the feeling of warmth. Even Blood orchids , the mythical flowers which give eternal life are supposedly red.

The same red color is the sign of immense danger. It represents gore. Gamers will understand this more than others , because in any game shooting down zombies with red blood gives more satisfaction than killing zombies with blood of other color(House of Death). “Ring ring ringaaa….” Well we are all very familiar with the red light districts and I do hope none of us have memories from there. In fact our beloved satan is symbolized by red color.

Let’s move slightly apart , into comic world. Magneto , Spiderman , Flash all are dressed in red. No one can forget the red underwear Superman wears. In fact the strongest abilities in any anime is shown by red . The sharingan, Tsukoyumi, susano , senbonzakura . This shows that red signifies power and ability to lead. Even our own Indian superhero Shaktiman(fck fck fck fck fck ) is dressed in red. On contrary even vampires have red eyes and so do people with conjunctivitis.

What is amazing is to see that apart from the facts above , if we look back on our lives ,even we intend to remember the color red more significantly when compared to any other color. I doubt anyone whose seen a chicken being chopped off will ever forget it. Or anyone, whose ever given a red rose, irrespective of it being accepted or not will forget the incident. Anyone can forget bolt , but I doubt sharad ever will . After all he did see red blood, courtesy bolt . How many people remember the umbrella you carry?? Ask nupur , she will remember the “Khooni chata” she had , not coz it was pink but because the two of us got cuts in our fingers while doing the same thing with it , that too within an interval of 15 minutes. I doubt harsh will ever forget the night when he went home at one and told his dad that I had cut my leg into two halves and was bleeding(to death). There are people at an age of 22,who still can’t watch movies with blood in it because it gets stuck to their head and they keep getting disgusted by it.(I will not disclose names here).

One color that joins us all, friend ,foes or even family is red. One color that maps the extremes in life. Red marks joy in our life, brings love to us and the same red shows pain and danger. If we avoid the red connection , I guess half our happiness and half sorrows will be gone. Why live a halflife? Embrace red (does not mean you skip a red light tomorrow) and enjoy what it brings with it.

Ps: I forgot tomato ketchup, sorry mota.

Superman can save the world.... Or Not.

Superman , the most awesome and fascinating of all the superheroes. Dressed in blue with an awesome red underwear. Flying around the places using super strength, x-ray vision and heat vision to save the day. Almost all will argue that world needs someone like him to save the day. But his very powers are the reason why he would fail to succeed in saving the real world.

Let’s start with the dress. In particular the “ Red underwear ”. If an icon like the superman would flaunt his red underwear to the world, sooner or later it is bound to become a fad. This will cause excessive sales of red underwear. resulting in two things. One, Wastage of old underwear and two, race among different companies to sign superman for their ads trying to prove that their product is the best.

If you consider the first result , wastage of underwear will lead to pollution, and since world will be looking up to superman for a solution ,the easiest solution for him will be to burn down the wasted underwear by heat vision. This in turn will lead to global warming , one of the major reasons stated as the cause of destruction of Earth.

The second case, where companies will endorse superman , time constraint will kick in for the poor superhero ,where he’ll have to manage time between fan mail, doing ads and of course spending time with the love of his life(all heroes have a secret love life with exception of uchiha itachi). With so many responsibilities , where is a poor guy supposed to find time for saving the world???

Apart from this , the intelligence level of the world has improved a lot. I doubt there will be anyone(smaran being exception) dumb enough not to distinguish between Clark kent and superman. This will create major integrity issues because no one will ever want their girls to spend time with Superman. Who knows when the mind of the great hero will get perverted, after all he does have x ray vision. Whereas females will definitely take this as an abuse to right to equality, and revolt against men. Forcing a new age war between men and women. And obviously men would loose, because no matter how strong a man is there will be a female he will fall weak against(for reference read story of Samsung and Delilah). And also superman, no matter a superhero or not, will support females. After all they are fighting for him.and who would want females against him. And it will be the end of world as we know.

So all I can conclude is ,if superman actually existed ,he would hasten the end of the world rather than preventing it. All I can say is we are doing such a good job destroying the world ourselves that we don’t really need help of superman to do it.
And of course we can all be superman . All we need to do is smoke and fly or try to miss the ground accidently, while falling!!!

The Man The Machine The MOFO...

For some1 who inspired me to write

THE MAN


5 Years now, and perhaps one of the most talented guy I have met, Sweet ,considerate and amazingly popular with girls (specially the once who have D in der names ) . A guy whose always there for friends , be it partying or in misery. An irreplaceable part of most of our(HIVian) lives. The man practically has an over sized brain which comes up with most brilliant IDEAS (especially under effects of some extra ingrediants ). Fierce enough to scare the likes of people like CJ and Mota wheras soft enough to keep audi in his room , even when she kept crying in his room whole night.(audi := ‘ first dog owned by HIV 2k5 ‘) . Bold enough to watch his first love(jyoti: yet another dog) go through immense trauma outside his own room. Kind enough to accept flowers from D(dunno which 1) even though it was pollen season and he ended up in hospital spoiling our nights. Brave enough to face the mallu nurse in Apollo who made him strip in order to give him injection and than to treat us for it with CTBM even though bird flu scare was on.

THE MACHINE

When talent is considered he’s unmatched. Let me start of with dancing. Flexibility that makes you feel that the person literally has no bones in the body. Theres nothing much to say about dancing because those who know him have seen him dance, and those who havent seen him dance won’t understand until they see him . Sports , I doubt ,jay will ever forget to call him for puchka , specially after getting hit for a 6 that landed on the road. And I still can’t forget the night before BEE where we(me chams J and ) spent entire night playing TT. A ligament tear(courtesy J) never stopped him from doing anything he was good at be it dancing or playing.



THE MO***** F*****

A sinner, watching videos(and not the music ones) in mota’s room b4 every midsem. Luring everyone to give him company . And than clearing all his papers . Or getting people to dance on tarzan and jane just before m3 and getting caught by chota chatri(R.K. Narayan J’s favourite prof.) Coming up with brilliant ideas to rag juniors(like writing down a full newspaper). Or using Chams deo to create fire . The brilliant song ‘ In the end -the smaran version’.I doubt anyone can forget the mood swings. Or the m2 midsem where he literally ripped his room apart. When it comes down to ditching, he can almost compete with the likes of J.Still remember the room change, or the time when he skipped the parties. Almost ditched the full batch to catch a glimpse of D (b4 puri trip).and the latest, not showing up for the convocation. I doubt he realizes people miss him and will always do , even if he starts ignoring them.