2 years with the 14 environmentalists...

I have been a late latif throughout my academic record. Be it school, where I entered mid session, Presi, where I entered only after the second counselling, and my present Dept of Environmental Science, where I entered, 3 weeks late, after the 4th counselling. I still remember the day I joined the department...it was not totally unfamiliar to me as my first day in Presi was, largely because, I had been visiting the HOD, AM sir, continuously for the 2 previous weeks, and also because I had been in touch with one of my future classmates, sayantan.(Apart from that I had also heard that there is a beautiful girl called Avisha, who studies in the department). Anyways, Day1, Sayantan had promised to come early so that I could share a bench with him, but he was late. So, as I sat alone in the first bench 1st sem classroom, the first soul who entered the room was a tall,blonde girl. I mistook her to be a non bengali, as most people do, and she proved me wrong, when she started to blabber....she talked on and on for the next 5 mins...and so, from moment 1, priya banerjee became my friend ( and not girlfriend as claimed widely...u see, she has a lot of....ahem...leave it)..gradually the class started filling up...and everybody gaped at the teddy bear who was sitting in the first bench!! Sayantan entered, and within a few minutes, I was thanking god that he was late, or else, sitting beside him would have made me physically vulnerable! The "beautiful lady" that i had heard of , Avisha, entered...and my first reaction was smsing sayan " well, she IS sexy!" .What i felt good about my class is that from day 1 itself, these people befriended me as if they had known me for weeks.
Gradually, I discovered my classmates...priya, as i said, was an unstoppable chatterbox...and we soon became good friends, as both of us could talk nonsense continuously (except..maybe times when she starts babbling about her...ahem....)..there was the ever serious ahana...who would flinch at the slightest indecent utter....and wud enjoy a "love-hate" friendship with sayantan..there was the ever sweet and dramatic twisha, tomz.....and they formed a talketive lot in the second bench! my interaction with sreetama and twisha particularly increased as we walked up the gariahat way back home.( and..well..tomz's psychopona during the xams). there was our model avisha... friendly, and ever helpful with her beautifully written notes. There was our star vineeta, who would sing us her songs, there were sunanda, mrinmoyee, ishita, gopa, madhurima...my interaction with them was frankly not as excellent as the others,but during our games together, we all enjoyed mutual participation. For instance, there was our sweet gopuz...entering the class cheerfully and narrating theatrically how she slapped a guy in the bus, who was eyeing her. there was our rough and tough abhishek, already ready to bunk classes, and yet ready to help anyone anytime at the slightest of the needs. there was our rupam..the genious, who left the college before the first sem. and finally, our sayantan...the genious, and mr serious..always into studies, and when he's not studying, he's into physical sursuris..
During my first and half of second sem,we really used to enjoy a lot...our games of truth and dare, where our voluntary "dare"s ensured us to break into a plethora of melodramas involving the virual family...where I was the head of family, pwi and twi my two wives, gubu, vini, avs my children...etc etc etc. there was also the killer killer game...i really miss sayantan's famous dialogue "gopar chokh mara mane jeno dhop kore 1ta porda porlo". along with classes, we got involved in a host of other activities like Green Booth, seminars, etc. One other enjoyment was our frequenting priya's and twisha's places...and the more uncensored continuation of our classroom games we had there. I also miss those rehearsal days..for rabindrajayanti and for freshers..(though I do not miss the bashings meted out to me during the programs).

The year turned, and so did the environment of the environment department. differences cropped in amongst few, priorities changed, and the class was not so jolly anymore. but even amongst all these , there were a few positive turnouts...vini came closer to us..and so did ahana, forcing herself to be immune to a lot of indecent talks.. Admittedly, I got a bit more reserved in my attitude in the later days as a result of a few not so nice experiences, but I still enjoy class...
I still love passing comments in a few selected classes with twisha, or punching priya on her legs, or hiding the hair clips of the girls. I still enjoy poking gubu about a special someone, or chatting away during off periods. I still enjoy visiting here and there (read: aquatica) with my classmates, though it has reached its minimum. I still enjoy participating in various programs....but somewhere, I feel the vacuum, the lacuna that was once filled by our games together, our constant chatterings, our "masti". I know its impossible, but even a few days back, I dreamed of us,in the second year classroom, after an skc class, playing a game of truth and dare, and breaking into one of those family melodramas. The dream was shattered halfway by my mom's wake up call...but that was one dream I never wanted to end. Coz its really a dream now :(


Shall miss all of you 2 months hence. Till then, Il try and enjoy the compromised entertainment!!! Long Live Envs!