We left college after we were bored of sitting on the bench staring into empty cafeteria and empty everything. Of course it was because it was Saturday and a sem end to add more enptiness to the coll building. But we i. e. myself, my friend Alok(another nerd turned 'vaaya gelela mulga') and Kaustubh were in a good mood. We smuggled our SSW files from lab(For all good reasons.). Special thanks to Gajanan and his acrobatic moves. Jumped in via a 10 inch lab window. Meanwhile, Modi sir came out of nowhere to have a chat. You cant avoid this brilliant man. So we told Gaja to hide inside while we are finished with Modi sir. Poor chap(Gaja)
We tailed Modi sir's exit in a white WagonR. The bus came when it thought it should as usual.
Then we were at Plaza thinking what to do next. Going home was no good option. We(Read: Alok) had done a whole night's hardwork to do well today. And without any expectation whatsoever the external said 'ye abhitak ka sabse acchha grp tha' to my group of three.Equal credit to Ashti and Deep Dinesh Waghela(Doesn't that sound like Vijay Deenanath Chauhan?).
I wish I could go for a viva with a duct tape wound to these people's mouth.
Again back to Plaza, we decided that we(Me and Alok) will accompany Kaustubh aka Kos to get a cold drink. (Actually to help Kos to cope with loneliness that comes out of living alone at his Aunty's deserted house. I won't fascinate staring at empty house after staring at empty college corridoors ) The usual hot spot was the shop near Dattatray(I fear that hotel. Ate there for nearly a month when I had shifted for 1 month into my grandmother's empty house at Shivaji Park for my first term test at new coll. I swore afterwords never to eat there again).
We sat for 15 minuits in the scarce chairs in front of the shop thinking what to drink, who will pay,kiska kispe kitna udhaar hai etc. When the other customers started giving us stares for sitting there doing nothing, we decided to order something. Carrot juice for me and Alok(We keep on having these 'health attacks'. Alok even justified it saying 'good for eyes'.) and Kokam for Kos(who was quick 2 point out that it was the least priced item out there)
The hot summer afternoon meant we finished within single gulp.
After half an hour, we were still there encroaching the chairs. Thats when I felt that the shopkeeper will jump from behind the galla and kick us out(Or may be just say so).
So I had an idea 'Why no go to park?'. Kos is ever ready for park. So we dragged a reluctant Alok('Zopaaychay Yaaar') to Park.
There is a nice bench in the shadow of a peeple tree behind Meenatai Thakre Statue. We ran to grab it. A couple that was just behind us sighed. Maybe we stole their fav spot(Hata Saawan ki ghata. So be it.)
Our chat continued- encompassing college, career, daily life and girls.
But park has always some entertainment(It was 3:45, so no bebs encircling the ground to burn the extra fat. So entertainment is to be seen in different light here.)
So we are just chatting and looking here and there when man appeared from inside the park(we couldn't see where he exactly came from) clutching another man's collar, cursing and abusing him. 'Aapas ka lafada hogaa' we concluded and didn't give them a second look.
Again after 10 minutes, the same man(the collar clutcher) comes out of park(We did not see him going him back in again.)This time he had yet another man with him.(A sophisticated bespectacled guy in white shirt and a blue jeans- call him chikna). The chikna was warning the other man-'Haath mat lagana. Baat karo naa aap' .The collar clutcher man however was not impressed with it.
Thats when we smelled rat(So did the other people sitting around).
The chikna was now escorted out of the park in a hurdle of overenthusiastic bystanders. To a shed that housed a jugaadu police chowki on the other side of the road. 2-3 overweight havaldars sported a wicked smile at the newly arrived guest- chikna. Meanwhile chikna was fumbling with his cellphone to find a contact that will get him out of this. So the collar clutcher man was a plaincloth policeman(We missed his unmistakable police boots. So did Chikna). Still we (and most of the onlookers) had no clue why the chikna was being booked. Maybe he was some gangster.
We did not have to wait to long to get the answer. 2 overenthu bystanders who were part of above mentioned hurdle were again walking in. We gave them a questioning look. One of the guy then said in an unmistakable Bihari accent- 'Dekhaa...ground pe peesaab karneka nateeja...', while the other guy flashed his tobacco clad teeth- he was having fun.
We took a second to make sence and then burst out laughing. What the bloody hell!
It meant that the collor clutcher was catching people who were peeing inside the park. lol.
Just when we thought Chikna will escape by doing some maandavli or will get away with chaipani for men in khaaki, a police jeep arrived on the spot, Chikna was pushed in (with handcuffs) the Jeep and it wroomed away towards Sena Bhavan. Closely following it was a Zee TV car. Bad luck chikna. If ZEE NEWS' reputition for lack of content is to be trusted, they can certeinly make a 'breaking news' out of this!!!
Sochta hoga 'Kya karne nikla tha aur kya ho gaya...'
Maybe Chikna was just sitting on katta with his girlfriend...thats when he feels he cant stop for even a second...says'aalo zara 2 minuitat' goes in towards ground...finds a barely visible spot...huushhh...'ai udhaar kya kar raha hai...'Collar clutcher enters the scene.
Then we started imagining how chikna must be feeling! Ok... If u want to get booked, then do it for a respectable crime(eg. in our city- drunken driving, mowing unfortunate people sleeping on footpath in your landcruiser). What will he say 2 his friends- I was booked...for peeing!!!
Then after he gets bail, some funny looking Zee TV guy asking him...'Aapko kaisa Mehsus ho raha hai...'
What will a frustrated chikna say then? 'Teri @#$%$' 'They dont even have a urinal at the police station...Pleez u knw some nearby place'(I bet the Zee TV guy will smile and suggest him another public place to pee. Then he will run a sting op.'Aaankhe phaadkar dekhiye ye darinda kaise aapke shehar mein gandagi faila raha hai...gaurrse dekhiye iss masoom chehre ko...ye insaan sareaam, dindahaade sheharme peshaab kiye ja raha hai...' )
Oh my god!!! we were clutching our bellies to ease the pain that comes out of excessive laughing, about to fall off.
Thats when we realized it was 4:30. Time to go. We gathered ourselves and walked out, still trying to contain the laugh.
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- Jayant Apte
- This is Jayant Apte. I am a Ph.D. student at Drexel University. I am interested in variety of problems on the intersection of information theory and computer science. Lately I have been working on multi-source network coding problem. Polyhedra and matroids are some of the things I have been recently working on. I write a lot of code. It is mostly C, OpenMPI or CUDA C. I am an avid Chelsea supporter. I don't get much time to watch all their games but I do catch the highlights when I can.
Hey jayant.. U conveyed a day to day life topic beautifully wid gr8 humour... keep it up..
ReplyDeleteThough try not to go on such a personal level of names and stuff...
@blaze
ReplyDeletehmm...
i guess only frnds will visit this blog.
still i will try. maybe it givs a personal touch.
Mindblowing language, man. Good. Nice way to do some innovative + creative tp.
ReplyDeletenice 1 man.. read it 4 d first tym...
ReplyDeletewat a tym it was.. n jayu.. ur novel overdose has done wonders in ur writing skills!!