Thursday, August 21, 2008

College... the last day!!!!

I walked with my best friends across the campus......... towards my class... my final year engineering class. The hour hand at the watch said ... it was ten minutes past 5.... and there was not even a single trace of any life in the college........ except for we three.... me and my best pals ..........

Another ten steps.. and there was our class with the doors shut... !!! we were on the third floor... and the sun setting down in the valley with its orange rays was creating a magical scene. Had a wish that the time stops at that very moment... but it never happens... the seconds hand ticked heavily..... and we opened the doors of the class for one last time...................

Wished i cud ask my teacher..."may i come in.... " and wanted to hear her shout.... "You late again... no attendance..."
but there was no one there... just empty desks.. and we three.... looking at the walls.... and the desks.. all empty... with quotes we wrote ... and the raised platform .. where the torture classes were held... and the last benches.. where we had fun.... laughed .... kicked out.... hiding from the teachers... pleading for attendence............ million memories rolled like a muvee into our minds... and there was complete silence for a moment.. and we smiled ... laughed!!!!!

Walked like heros from the medivial times.... jumped over the benches... had a look at the bench .. where the so called babes of our class used to sit.... hehehe... babes in engineering.... a dream in itself... (no offenses to any babes)... ..

drifted to our place... ... sat there..... side seats...
dint feel like the last day .... dont remember how we met .... how we came to such a stage... feels like i know my friends from ages... feel like as if i was born in this college..... feel like i was always here...

The entire class was still there alive.... the last benchers sleeping.......... the gals chatting amongst themselves........... the teacher in her own world...... ravi sitting besides me .... cribbing about something .... swami sitting on first bench taking down notes.... and maru smiling at the babes.... ankur ... talking to the gals... and we laughing about something of the other..... me occasionally scribbling something on my notepad............ making some sketches.. or bullshit poetry ............

Ahh.. tarun asking me to look outside... for some babes from bio-med ... standing there....... and i without even a word...looked outside.. it was an unsaid communication.... tarun pinged me... and i, with the same enthu... looked outside... but today there wasnt anybody there................ just the deserted corridor.......... and i cud see the mechanical department at the end... no one there..................

looked back..... but there was vinay .. in his dream world.... not scribbling anything in his notebook... not laughing this time.... not sayin anything this time........... just sitting there.. and there was tarun... and there was me .....

"roll number 23.......... "
"roll number 23............ varun.... u sleeping again........ "
"Ok fine............. roll number 24"
"....................... hey .. present ma'm............ "
"you sleep dear...!!! no attendence for you................."


No attendence.... the class has ended... and my friends... chatting and laughing .... going for a chai... aur a samossa..... aur a lemon juice...

and we sat there ..... sat there all alone ......... closed our eyes, for the entire world outside the walls of the campus was calling us..............

Wanted to attend one last lecture........ but this time there was no one to take that last lecture..............

and there was that door... open... and we wished all the time .. to run away .... to bunk.. but this time it wasnt..... one last time.... one last time............ attended the class.... with no one.. just we three...

5 comments:

  1. sahi hai boss...Good one..

    Waise there were babes in your class..I will not name them but you know it ;-)

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  2. Hey Varun...
    I knew from our Bellandur days' association (remember!!!) that u can write well.... and now u have proved me right... In the post u have said that u have written poems also... I wud like u to blog them.... next time... I wud love to read them... :-)
    All the best to u...
    Keep Posting..

    ~Sattu

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  3. I think this story is something that is very close to you. One could say that its based on a true incident.
    Excellent Narration...:-)

    All The Best
    Priyanka

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  4. @Shishir..

    Thanks sir!! Well it seems u were interested in the babes... or rather i should say that you noticed them...

    Its straight from the heart.. the last day after the convo was done with...

    ab to sad idhar udhar hain...
    Well you can understand it fully.. when i say that the time had come to seperate and pursue the dreams.

    @Satyakam...
    Yeah it was a great time we had. Have scribbled a lot when ever i used to crib about something...
    Will share it for sure.

    @Priyanka
    Yeah it is one experience i had in my convocation ceremony... though i feel that it comes in every ones life one day or the other.

    Thanks for the comments

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  5. Hey Ankur, I never knew that you are such a good writer, very well narrated. It really touched me, Sachi, phir se school, college jaoo tau bilkul aisa hee lagta hai. :)

    Sheetal.

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