roll 7:Anirban

I can vouch for it, anybody from kgec who reads the line above will have trouble identifying him, well folks, I am writing about ‘bhutu’ who also happens to be anirban!now he is not really a guy, he is a PHENOMENON. Let me explain why.
I remember my very first conversation with anirban vividly. I saw this guy, with his slouched posture and unsure as to what to with both of his hands (hasn’t changed till date).I tried to strike a normal chat, and there he was, his first words, replying to me directly, “do you know my name? Why do you know?” typical bhutu stuff! basically why he got that nickname I am not too sure myself, but my guess is that 5 minutes with him will make you feel that somehow that name suits him to the ‘T’.now that was the superficial part of it. If u dig deep, you will find some really unique traits in him.
I remember during our English communication class, he stunned everyone with his oratory skills, which I can guarantee, sounded a lot lot better than loads of so called “non-bhutu” people in the class. Later I gathered that he had shown such skills earlier during his hostel (VC) extra currics activities as well. On the flip side of it, anirban is a nightmare to have as your practical partner or to sit beside you in the exams.
“Don’t you want to pass? Have you even done anything about the experiment yet?” this might be acceptable coming from some really experienced faculty, but bhutu! He might not have touched a single piece of equipment, but he almost never refrains from making such a remark. As for having anirban sit beside you during the sem-s, I can give a first hand experience. He has an awesome quality of making you feel ashamed for not letting him see your answer script, he demands, and right from the first minute that you show every syllable of what you write. Let me tell you folks, I have had interesting chats with bhutu alone; he throws some of the most brilliant quotes you can ever imagine. Somehow I feel that he needs some time with himself every day and let go. That will make things better for him.
Talking of bhutu’s antics, I will never ever in my life forget the sight during the 2005 exotica fest evening; when a drunken bhutu just hugged ananyo and didn’t let go of him for the next five minutes, shit yaar,how did I miss a handy cam then! I was the sole eye witness then, you should have seen them interact! Bhutu uttering, “Please forgive me ananyo?”, and ananyo struggling hard to free himself, all the while yelling, “ok, ok s**a, b*l c**l, now leave me!”
Anirban has self-appointed different folks for different purposes, like I’m his placement-info personnel,bani(roll 14)happens to be his studies related info guy, and the list goes on, with different categories of class test,practical,exam dates, hostel fees and so on.
One of the sweetest things that I have encountered in college is that of bhutu falling in love, with a gorgeous gal named “su******ta”of another neighboring department. We all remember the beautiful letter that he wrote for her in his utterly illegible handwriting and showed it to all of us in the compu lab.well, the relationship didn’t quite take off, but don’t u wry mate, there are better things and gals in store for you:)
At the risk of sounding gyan giving, I think at the end of the day, he basically needs to sort out his thoughts, that will do.he has some traits in himself that are unique in their own rights, and if he can make proper use of them, then what else, we might all start calling him anirban unanimously again!

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roll 6:Anay

At times there are some unfortunate nicknames that begin to get themselves attached to a person for no apparent reason and continue remain stuck at the cost of constant fun being made of the target person thereof. One such unfortunate victim is roll 6, anay, and the nickname under consideration here is “mr.lathe”, which for the uninitiated is someone who is too slow, too less eager to do anything properly and promptly. Now that would give one an impression of anay being really stout et al, let me tell you, he is anything but that. He is skinny. With specs like that proverbial horlicks bottle’s bottom. The easiest identification mark for anay from a distance is his awesome smile, when anay smiles, be rest assured that all of the 32 and more of his teeth will be visibleJthere are more to this guy than what appears to be.

My earliest memories of this guy is of an intelligent guy who had quick thinking abilities, was street smart and was extremely good at cards too (though ananyo will disagree I guess).he had exemplary marks in his +2, but unfortunately like is most often the case, the marks just gave way to more fetching occupations in college. So what then went on to fetch him the quite antithetical nickname of “mr.lathe”??The answer lies in that land of magic yet again, VC, what else! poor anay!he earned that title during his fresher initiation function at VC.but as mentioned earlier he has abilities that will make your jaw drop with their sheer efficiency. Take for example the pleasant shock that I received from anay during our 3^rd semester exams. I remember that it was the day of the data structure exams, and most of us were in a fix with the algo-s and the definitions. and there we see anay entering the exam hall with his full set of graphics instruments, the huge set squares et al.we were shocked thinking what was he up to? What diagrams was he going to draw that we hadn’t a clue about? The answer became apparent half an hour into the exam, when the trademark smile was just sticking to his face permanently. I was in a fix about some question regarding the linked list or something, and anay took pity on me, and asked me to have his set square. I was enraged, what use would the set square be to help me with the full page algo-s? Anay smiled at me blissfully and told me to place them on my answer sheet. I followed suit, and voila! The transparent set squares once placed on the sheet, gave way to all algo-s that I could dream of remembering! They were beautifully scribbled over them in almost invisible pencil marks under natural circumstances. It seemed like messrs lippshutcz and tenenbaum were smiling down blissfully on me, much like our beloved anay!

Then again another stupendous piece of anay magic got revealed during the digital electronics class in 2^nd year. We were all chatting away to glory and getting bored to death by the painstakingly uninteresting lecture. And there he was, our anay, looking intently at the professor, not moving an inch with concentration that would have put arjun to shame. We were astounded, what on earth did digital electronics have that impressed our roll 6 so much? We were all in splits when we got to the truth though. this was a time- tested technique put to use by anay,when he basically ‘appears’ to look directly at the professor, but behind his thick-nearly opaque specs, just sleeps away to glory! Now that piece of utter genius is to be seen to be believed, anybody who has seen that piece of stunt will guarantee, the severest of prof-s would have failed to detect this camouflage.

I miss all those rivalries that we shared during the first year practical classes. And how can I forget that shoe stealing episodeJAnay was one of the first mates that I made in college, and he will remain one of the dearest memories that I will take with me. May his huge smile remain on his face all life longJ

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roll 5:ananyo(bumba)

Roll 5

Now folks, I will invest a few extra lines on this character, and pardon me for some of my nasty language, but I can’t help using it while writing about mr.mitraJ.I still remember our first meeting in the admission queue. We were giggling about ragging in spite of having all the seniors around, and joking about the days ahead. Looking back, it feels like, morning showing the day nothing else, cos we have basically joked our way up the engineering ladder! Something in us clicked instantly. Later we both subconsciously realized what it actually was, or rather were. We were mad mad srk fans, we loved quizzing, we were equally passionate about Harry potter and dada (though the reasons were two poles apartJ), we were both the most vocal first years in terms of pure pristine ‘fajlami’.so that is ananyo and myself. Now let’s delve a bit deep into the character of this individual.

Ananyo is a gifted individual, not quite gifted in the usual sense, but for his overall likeability. There is a certain no-nonsense attitude about him which is really endearing. he has got some analytical bent of mind alright-he is good at chess, loves almost any adrenaline pumping compu game, from nfs to quake to fifa 07,his repertoire is huge. This guy is awesome as far as c-programming goes. He is a die hard fan of anything kanetkarsqueJ he used to be one of the last surviving holders of the iconic nokia 3315, till he left that honor pass onto me. And did I forget about his snake prowess? No he isn’t a charmer. I’m talking about the mobile game. One hand, both hands, this guy holds all the possible records that u can ever imagine in the snake game.

About his srk following, his hairstyle is a tribute to the king khan. He makes sure to see nearly each of ‘His’ movies at menoka within 2 days of its release. He is really good at quizzing, but for his inherent laziness, here goes another talent wasted; he would have been an even more awesome quizzer. I have always regarded him as some kind of benchmark to guide me to good quality music, and I will be forever indebted to him for addicting me to a certain group called linking parkJabout his potter craze, I will never forget his experience while buying the 6^th potter book!

Ananyo and myself have got a few unfortunate things in common, the biggest being the irritating ‘a’ at the end of our names. we both will never forget the disappointment on the faces of the guys at the valentine’s day quiz at kalyani when they were eagerly expecting the “beauty with the brains” duo of ananyA and alekhyA to step out, and instead got to see the embarrassed two of us stepping forwardLthat apart, he has had his fair share of his same gender preference taunts from everyone in the college, with regards to his mysterious and dangerous liaisons with Mr. khandelwal.this guy was a restrained watcher of ‘p-s’,there used to be no 3-s for him, he found them too violent for his liking. Quite unbelievably the new final year ananyo now finds the 2-s too immature for his liking, and can’t live without his daily 3-a day doseJhow times change!!

He was single handedly responsible for reporting to roll 2 about a certain roll 50 something’s angled looks from the first week of first year. I sincerely believe things wouldn’t have been so very deep, had ananyo not provided his fare share of “ufff-s” and “ahhhh-s”every time she glanced innocently at roll 2Jthe honor of making “b** chal cholar dal” a house hold phrase all over kgec and beyond goes to ananyo! He has the enviable record of having used slangs before almost every other teacher in college, and even before the HR folks of multiple companies visiting our campus.

There was this small second college for the few of us dp-s, it still is. Titled”ananyo’s mess” there are a lot many things I won’t ever forget about my college, but this mess will rank among the top 3 for sure. It has so many memories for me to cherish! How can I forget that night before and after “the tcs day” that adda at midnight before our first ever interview! This mess is kind of a smaller version of the VC hostel; there is something magically intoxicating in the air out there. It led to ananyo’s and others’ dwindling attendance from second year onwards. But let me assure you, like in VC, there is a lot more ‘happening’ stuff out there than in the college premises. in fact there were days when we ended up at this mess from the morning itself bunking classes almost instinctively.

Now a bit about the personal side of ananyo.he is a passionate person.period.i will never forget the tears in his eyes while watching shah rukh’s aman dying in kal ho Na ho.that is ananyo for me. Happy go lucky and cool to everyone, but really soft-hearted inside. Anyone knowing the two of us does so precisely for two reasons, our dada quarrels and for our money related tiffs. He is convinced that I am THE most miserly man on earth. And let me remind him of a sweet ice cream that he had at
Durgapur, how was it mate? Really delicious Na?

He won’t agree with this line of mine for sure, but as if I careJnow about his gal luck, he is positively smitten by‘d*******’, and I wish the Jodi is finalized in the very near future. Earlier he has had short time-pass (at least that is what he calls them) stints with pa**la, pa**a, mi**ti and others, the list is quite long. And did I forget a certain anagram of ‘Amon alis’? Just watch ananyo’s eyes light up every time he talks about the vital stats of that prom queen. He prides himself in having a huge database of girls’ info.

At the end of the day folks, this guy happens to be my first and may be closest buddy in college, I wish, just wish I could fulfill his constant pleadings of,”alekhya,ekta m** dish” every time he saw someone looking at roll 2., I don’t want to elaborate anymore.samajhdaro ko ishara-i kafi hainJ

He is one guy, whose company can’t ever be regretted, in fact it is real value-addition to have ananyo as your buddy for more ways than oneJChal nunku (that is what he is called affectionately by us for he loves simple Bengali to define few specific termsJ), the orkut testi that I wrote for you was just a trailor, in fact so seems this one, all I can say is that this post will be edited in future, more additions expected!

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