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.)