Then they lead me inside a room.'Where am I being taken to?',I asked.The sage smirked and asked politely,"Son!Do u know my name?".I couldn't answer that & before I could blink my eyes,5 thundering slaps put my jaws into 'comma'.I could hear a couple of mosquitoes singing around my ears.Then the sage pointed towards the fan and asked,"Son!Can u scold it for 5 mins?".I had not watched too many Hollywood movies till then and Vishal Bharadwaj's 'Omkara' was far from being scripted in 2001.Surely I was not upto the expectations.So he blessed me with some more 'taste the thunder' types blows.
That was the beginning.From that day onwards,for next 2 months,the sage flanked by a few other holy souls used to pay a regular visit to my hostel room.Soon I realised that these visits were better known as "Ragging" among common people.And for some inexplicable reasons,I was doing a 'crow dance'(Remember 'Jise dhundta hoon main' from 'Dil chahta hein') at 3 in the night.I was gradually blossoming in2 a multi-tasking robot--from a 'vodka'delivery boy 2 a 'shameless proposing machine',from being a midnight entertainer to a smiling boxing bag,from an ever reliable 'assignment' copier to a 'censored' story writer...my own talents amazed me..and for a few days,I forgot that I was there 2 study machines and not 2 study the morphology of my roommate...not to compete with my batchmates on who can give better 'mallis' to the seniors...and then the holy souls realised one day,that I was wise and pure enough to be blessed with 'moksha'...and I tell u,once u attain this,u realise that u r ready urself to actually mould the next breed of 'aspiring engineers' 2 'ur types'...who must realise that they r not coming to REC 2 become engineers,but 2 understand that 'life is short,so have fun'...to know that it's a cool thing 2 decorate ur speech with some fashionable words,migrated from US and north india...2 understand that 90% of the professors are crap even before they attend their 1st class...and once these 'holy thoughts' are configured in their brains,they r also elligible 2 groom the next gen:-)....
And this is what we call as 'Spiritual jagran'....
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And sir aap itna acha kab se likhne lage...this one is truely great.Just makes u relive the good old college days.Sir keep up the spirit of writing.
Abbe 2-3 holy words bhi likh deta saath mein...yaad nahin hai to main kuch help karun kya?
Nahin yaar...family audience hein
;-)....
A good remembrance of those "sweet and simple introduction" days. Very lively expressed:)
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