winters were gone, it was so pleasant these days, I wonder if it could be better. Two terms are over we are into the last term of first year .Felt good I m an old guy in college now …but no one except us (fuchaas )did believe that….”Don’t You think something is wrong about college “….yes we said unanimously…College was loosing its sheen …janta started disappearing from Nescafe ,main corridor and arts dhaba . No one seems to have any idea of whats actually happening, we were in danger “Is it aliens who are doing it “. We had no idea but our brains were churning fast but like every time with no results. After almost an hour of brain storming exercise I saw Abhimanyu(nerd of the highest order )moving fast toward the bus stand but he always catches the bus at 1.20 pm , what is he doing till 4 pm in college . But because of his generous nature and firm belief in us he walked up to us to inform us about the current happening in college. And then what he said shook us real hard. Exams were not even 30 days away. Only one place can save me now and that is Library .
. .Library is my destination now ..i didn’t want to waste any time and went straight inside college but soon I realized that I don’t know where is this god damn library it took me half an hour to find the right place .
I was standing outside the door of library it looked like an haunted place I wanted to get in but my legs disagreed ….somehow I managed to put me inside the place it was an huge crematory of books .I was walking like a Neanderthal lost in New york city
Everything looked so strange so unfamiliar …it was an unexplored territory …i realized I don’t even know what exactly I m looking for …I pitied myself for all those classes that I missed and for rest in which I slept …I called up akshat don’t know why and he said something which was incomprehensible ,actually I was numb
…I looked around everyone was staring at me, may be coz I broke that deafening silence ..i made a sound that was more than half a decibel way above the acceptable limit at that place
…my nerves started dying ,my throat choked, light was depleting real fast, my heart beat collapsed ,I felt pukish. I managed to walk to the corner table,(it was so close and yet so far). I saw this man ,White medium height broad shoulders, I thought he will help
I said,” I am sick “
“I am a jew”..he replied
and started reading some book on Platonian Utopian Society. What a waste of time I thought .
…I started moving forward …I asked for science section to this man in long kurta ,his jeans which looked like an artifact gifted from his grand father to him and which even he didn’t washed ,not even once I bet
“It was stinking’.
I guess he read my expression and he gave me those fuck off you scienceee look…I was in no mood to stop either. I was on a mission and a very important one ,after struggling in that life less place for an hour I managed to find science section(phew that was hard work). I did not realize but it was just an start ,I started scrolling through shelves
.I took it to librarian.He asked me to give him my library card, now what the fuck is this ..i don’t have one.
”kahan se milega. “I asked
…”you get your card in first term now its impossible” he said. My heart sank …I can not take these books home …not that I felt bad coz I wanted to read them but coz my first visit to library failed …..
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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