roll 16:Danish

Danish 6 ft 6 qamar.that is, was and always will be his best known identity in college and everywhere else that he goes. He is the tallest guy in kgec history by a long way. During the initial intro sessions he got bored by the perennial ‘what’s your height’ question thrown up at him. Since he is so very conspicuous because of his physique, let’s delve into this aspect of Danish before everything else.

 

dan & suku

He is tall and he is thin, some thin this guy is! I remember the first time that I saw his long fingers and his sinewy arms I was painfully reminded of the skeletal arm from the sci-fi film terminator-2-judgement day:)he once recounted his escapade in a gym back in his school days. He had been there to add some proportion to his breadth along with his length. And no matter how much the instructor urged him to, he was totally unwilling to take his shirt off in the gym, for obvious reasonsand Danish’s legs. He just can’t sit in a standard mini-bus. At times I have wondered whether three-fourth of Danish’s 6 ft 6 frame belongs to his legshis hair that took a turn for the wildest from 3rd year onwards has now started to give abhishek bachchan a run for his money, Ash better watch outall in all, his entire package reminds one of the ‘tal gach ek paye darie’ poem, that we had all read in school
Danish is the pride of cse.he used to be the strike bowler in nearly every match that he played in college, whether for his hostel or for his department. And this guy has a very clear thinking approach. By that I mean, just watch him make those killer moves on the chess board or play cards or solve puzzles like only he can. He is a proud resident of RBC.
Danish along with roll 4 is among the true blue bikers of our class, he loves driving a two-wheeler big time.alongwith amit and roll 32 he forms the trio in our class who are constantly hob-knobbing with the three beauties from north. But let me talk about the real issues out here, the ones pertaining to his heart
April 1, 2006.we had this grand plan where Danish was to declare his undying love to tanima, a certain gal from ECE who has been in the hit list of two other guys of our department (we will come to that shortly). The worst came to the fore on that day, tanima couldn’t take the joke in her stride and in the days that followed Danish and tanima couldn’t see eye to eye. Thankfully things have improved in the fag end of our college days and they are now back to more amicable termsbut the real owner of Danish’s heart is a certain ‘mehbooba’-her name I won’t take out here for obvious reasons. But all I will say is, this was veer zaara revisited.period.we were in second year when I scooped the news of Danish’s long time heartache out of his system. He just talked on and on for one full week, and the sight was seen to be believed! We kept on getting weekly, sometimes daily updates of the happenings of his ‘fast turning into a tragedy’ romantic episode. This was because she was almost getting married offand then it all happened. Danish became a part of the big blue; he approached her, made her rethink big time, and stalled the ensuing marriagethree cheers for our ‘danu’-if yet another of ashu’s shortened nicknames are to be taken seriously
Till this day he considers roll 2(along with many others actually) the biggest miser he has ever seenthis was principally because he had committed a blunder in 2nd year by giving me 5 bucks to be returned to the BCKV canteen as change, and well needless to say, they were put to good use by myself in the processno matter what happens, he is surely not going to forget the 5 bucks episode in the near future.
At the end of the day, Danish remains the ‘shaan’ of our class in a big ‘tall’ way. We love you

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roll 15:’chiru’-chiranjit

Chiranjit was shortened to chiru probably on the first day of college-because I can remember only the teachers calling him by his original first name during attendance, and none in class has called him anything else since then. In the beginning here was a guy, traveling with us on train, who claimed to know every nook and corner of salt lake and still failed to name one bus that goes past his house every day. He used to be a DP along with us in the very early days in college. I remember a particular day when we two were the only ones to return by the 4:30 train and we gave each other a mutual treat that any vendor offered to us, so much so that at the end of it all we were so stuffed that there seemed no further scope for a meal afterwards. Whenever chiru got down at sealdah to get to

College Street

or to any other place he was almost always grabbed by the ever hungry shark named roll 21 to treat him to some delicacy or other like a lassi or a roll. and bani and roll 2 were unfortunate listeners to the detailed explanation from roll 21 of chiru’s benevolence the previous dayL later on chiru went on to stay at APC before moving on to roll 33’s mess, where he received legendary status. Let me explain why.

Early in 3^rd sem, chiru grabbed a name for having exemplary understanding of computer organization and digital electronics. We used to approach him with fear as to what hi-funda thing will he throw up in reply. unfortunately during the various viva voce-s and the sem-s he painfully fell short of applying the funda that he accumulated during the whole yearLthe other legend from chiru was after having studied intensely all through the day and night and God knows when else, when he peeked into somebody else’s room and saw someone studying for a change he used to take great pleasure in shouting,”hey…ganthu ganthu!!”he was given a proper ragging-loaded welcome to roll 33’s mess when among other things he was asked to clean up the floor with a broom on his very first dayJhe also has a legendary, well to put it mildly, ‘bust’.the boys in and around chiru have always had a tough time staying away from the attraction of this portion of chiru’s anatomy. And along with ashu, chiru runs a photo finish as to who among the two has the better ‘bust’ in classJ

Chiru initially claimed to possess the best of databases of ‘p’-s.however much to roll 21’s displeasure all the cd-s furnished by chiru were so very virus-ridden that they refused to run at the very pinnacle of his arousalJin fact till this day, roll 21 will certify that while running one of chiru’s one such cd he could swear that his pc couldn’t access it and displayed the message “dirty cd”Jnow whether that pointed at the physical dirt accumulated on the cd or the moral dirt in roll 21’s mind is anybody’s guessJchiru is another example of having an exemplary engineer in his elder brother. He used to gather good textbooks and notes from his brother because of this fact. However one guesses chiru outdid his dada in one aspect –his bold proclamations regarding girls in his classJand that’s in the next paragraph.

In the first week of college itself chiru had professed that it was bread and butter for him to take roll 53 on a movie date. Till this day we are yet to see his plan bear fruit. Then again he was the culprit of passing roll 2’s phone number to help some particular damsel in distress in those initial days again. And the pinnacle came around 3^rd year when chiru was positively smitten by roll 65.we came to know the depth of chiru’s attraction to her from the furtive glances that he made to her from time to time. But alas to very little effectL

Chiru is always a bit confused in whatever he does. But he always has this almost foolish endearing smile on his face. He is one of those guys who aren’t conventionally that spectacular in any particular way but still manages to be one of the integral parts of the class.

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roll 14:bani

I was once fiddling with a software named anagram generator-a software which threw up seemingly meaningful anagrams from supposedly meaningless words. And Banibrata’s name gave me ‘a brain bat’. Now I wonder whether I have got a more apt anagram from anyone’s namelet me explain why. he is an info seeker per excellence-and that is why I’m adopting a different well arranged approach to write about bani,well that is the shortened name he has come to be known by now, he is sometimes called ‘banu’ for obvious reasons that I’ll come to later on.

‘The beginning’—my first day on my way to kgec.while strolling down the belghoria station platform, I see this guy for the first time. there was bani,with his typical a-bit-slouched back posture, with his left hand placed delicately in a bent position on the strap of his bag(the old one-not the chosen one)and with the other hand scratching his chin unsurely while looking around here and there. It was easy to identify him as one of my batchmates, cos of our wonderful uniforms back in those days. I befriended him only temporarily, little did I do then that it was going to be such a long partnershipthen again the first big chat with bani happened in train when we sat together in train on a Wednesday afternoon while on our way to attend a mechanical class of nearly no significance. I remember his talking about how he used to believe that he is merely doing a favor to kgec by coming down to study here and that he used to think that he should have been in some other bigger institute -well, until thenI came to know of his RKM background, which has held him in a different light in our eyes since then. One thing that has been the biggest piece of puzzle for us is that, if bani is a RKM product, how can roll 33 also be one?
‘The q factor’-along with ananyo, bani and me forged an early partnership for quizzing way back in first year itself. We were led by prasenjitda (debdasda to be exact) in whom bani found his own self in a big way. We marveled at the similarities between those two, especially in matters pertaining to the cerebral issues. The only issue with bani has been, in the implementation sector. He will horde all kinds of information, share them with us in all earnestness but when the crunch time comes he painfully falls short of implementing the same. Mind you such setbacks have been few and far between, he has proved a more than capable quizzing persona in college than one can ever dream of
During our train journeys and our sojourn at belghoria stations, I happen to have unique access to bani’s databaseand that guarantees me to learn a lot of things from him, in fact rarely does a day pass in college when I don’t learn anything from bani.I believe the same applies to each one of us of his batchmates.the best thing about him is that he doesn’t carry any airs about himself in spite of the remarkable abilities that he possesses. Needless to say, the lessons of humility that I have learnt from bani in the years gone by will hopefully bear fruitanother lesson that bani has taught us is about handwriting-I have learnt that you can also write the same script that I write in English in my horrible scribbling handwriting in some writing like bani’s.this is not a joke. His handwriting is too delicately pretty to be believed-it gives us too much inferiority complex. It seems like while writing each one of his words, he is actually painting the figurine of his dream girl
‘He hasn’t done ‘it’ yet’-by that I don’t mean the thing that we expect most college-goers to have done by now, but I’m referring to the primitive bit that all boys start doing by the time they are in 3rd or 5th standards may be. The piece of stat may sound incredible to many, like it did to us, or rather still does to us. One of my friends famously remarked that he is really damn jealous of bani for the vast stores of ‘*****’ that he still has at his disposal .Yes ladies and gentleman, bani hasn’t done ‘it’ as yet. you ask him the question, why bani?he answers, that he hasn’t felt the need as yetman, that’s scary to say the least, scary for many reasons, above all you doubt whether it is ‘self-control’ or ‘self-torture’. Then you fear about the probable acid rain that awaits bani’s locality when he finally decides to end his abstinencea possible question that arises from this scenario is about his attitude to gals.well, that’s the longest story to be shared, and it is next.
‘O amaye pagol kore dieche’-whose words are these? Well if you knew bani in first year, then you would probably not imagine him saying this in your wildest dreams, but yup, bani did say them. To whom? well roll 2, of all peopleI will never ever forget the burning desire in bani’s eyes when he said the self same words to me in reading room in first year while speaking to me about roll 58(now I don’t know what is it with roll 13 and 14, two consecutive wickets-clean bowled by roll 58).bani had fallen for roll 58 absolutely hook, line and sinkerany mention of that episode nowadays will fetch the self same dialogue from bani,’every man commits some mistakes’. let me tell you folks;I,me,myself ‘m guaranteeing you, that day in the reading room when bani had chosen me as his advisor par excellence he had confided into me how deep an impact she has left in his heart. And that wasn’t any mistake at all, it was pure, unadulterated desire, so much so that a reliable source informed me that bani waited for hours at book fair 2004 to have a single glimpse of his dream girl. I have always felt that bani has two hearts, one that is cerebral the one pertaining to roll 58, and the other one that is well, belongs to some other part of his anatomy and that is the reason for the roll 53-s and the jh***m-s.just watch bani’s eyes light up every time he speaks of what he desires to do with the two mentioned above. On that same topic roll 21 is testimony to the Olympic-style long jump that bani gave when he was invited by the 3 beauties from kalimpong to install Linux at their pc-s in the ladies’ hostel. Well, it is another sad story that chicken pox deprived bani to install Linux and who knows what else() into the machines that time aroundAnd did I mention that he is a ‘chosen one’? Well, bani loves every bit that is IBM, and why won’t he? considering the reason that apart from being the biggest IT company in the world it ensures him a position in the company that has as one of its targets to have the best sex-ratios among all companiesthe degree of bani’s desires can be gauged from the fact that he craves for ‘ma**ni-di’ as his mentor in IBM followed by his desire to mentor the prettiest of gals the next yearhe has recently decided to give way to chinos and jeans from his beloved trousers just to impress roll 53 that much more in the disguise of sharing java lessons at ardent.well,to pun a bit,bani’s ‘ardent’ desire is to have a steaming hot java beans session. Now now folks, I was talking about a j2ee class, what were you all thinking about? Dirty minds
‘The best bit’-when I look back, I consider myself just too lucky to have had bani as my buddy in college.alongwith roll 21, bani and myself were considered as the DP marathoners of our college. we had all kinds of awesome ideas and plans to falsely tempt people into treating us with delicacies ranging from nimboo pani to pakoras to sugarcane juice, our plans were intricate and the fruits of success were awesome to say the least.along with ananyo and anupam,bani is arguably the biggest supporter of sourav ‘dada’ ganguly.and that is the reason for the numerous heated arguments in the train.bani is a master at financial control, by that I mean, he will take the biggest pains to calculate the cheapest way to do anything which has various options to implement.bani had discovered celebritymoviearchives on the net way back in second year and spread the virus among us big timehe is a firm believer in the proverb of ‘necessity is the mother of all inventions’ and that’s because of the tension that he had to suffer when he had to erase the really controversial contents of his ‘history’ folder after his first satisfying session with his home pc and the subsequent successful discovery that brought him huge reliefwe all hope that bani loses his self imposed ‘N’ status and turns into ‘B’ as soon as possible. Or is he planning a direct transition into ‘L’ status?
All in all, the very fact that you have been my batchmate, stationmate, quizzing partner all rolled into one has really enriched me as an individual mate.bani is bani.incomparable.period.
God bless you in everything that you do in life.

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