READ THE ARTICLE BELOW THIS FIRST, ELSE PROBABLY WOULD BE HARD TO CATCH ……..
First my roommates,— Vivek, intelligent boy, but got too carried away, else could have been in top 20. Surojit, a fellow bengali, champion gossiper. Vineet, rajasthan-da-puttar, 1st in manipal, now in AIIMS, he left maths after 10 yet has an amazing sense of logic ; he too relaxed completely, yet got easily in top 20.
In mandakini 26, Sudhanshu. Damn popular guy, got well with all. Sreekanth, from kerala, nice looks, taught him some statistics ! Devanshu,…..well, the best thing about him is dat he knows what he does and is very confident. Tamoghna, pretty serious, he WAS disappointed not to get in the fantastic four!
Everyone was saying about some kaustav majumdar of delhi, who seemed like some sort of genius from what i caught of their talk. But (sounds rude, pardon me), the boy seemed to be quite heavy-headed about his reputation, and behaved in such a way thruout that a top 4 place was guaranteed for him. That of course dint happen, which made him very upset.
I was looking for two persons specially, Abhishek gadre and kalyani, for they qualified both in bio and chem. Gadre turned out to be pretty cool, Chahal made us chuckle by his persistent ‘oye gadre !’, “yeh gadre title main pehli baar sun raha hoon’ etc. I dint catch much of kalyani, except sht was in shorts thruout, which made the boys refer her as ‘foreign tourist’. But she did seem serious, and argued with kale sir the gr8. This brings us to kale sir……..well,well, great guy, i cant say more, no compliment is enough for him. He made us feel at home in the labs by his generous cries of ‘bol beta bol !’. ok, am coming to the teachers, but let me round up here. Among girls, we referred to viviktha as ‘mallika’ or ’sherawat’ (for her resemblance to the actress !), and ashwini as ‘woh KCET-waali hai naa’ as she talked about KCET counselling to Vartak on the very first day. Some of us boys(pardon 4 this, wont name any, but obviosly not me ) fell head-over-heels for Ritika and suggested that kale sir should include her in top 4 for her looks:))
Now the teachers….Vartak maam was good, we named her ‘chiku’ for her toothy grin resembled a rabbit named dat in some serial or movie. Dipesh sir once told ‘you know, the larynx is in the brain’ ( at least what i heard ) and hence got named ‘larynx’ ! Sandhya maam was helpful. Dint catch much of anupama maam.


Ok. I knew the Viviktha bit, and the Ritika bit too… and also the names of some of the guys who fell for her. And some ppl told me that I was known as Chadda-something… Eh? As for Gadre, have heard A LOT abt him from Shahi and Chahal. A Lot. Classic personality, apparently.
And I was Serious???????????? Ha ha ha ha ha.
Though I am very fond of Devanshu as such, he never struck me as that very confident. I mean pretty confident, but not THAT confident.
Personally have never known anyone as confident as Chahal.
No offence, but I didnt really got to know about you till the last day… When I saw you being called on the stage for the top 20.
yup, chahal WAS quite confident, but then, i dint catch much of him.
about devanshu, when we were discussing the paramecia Q after test, deva’s arguments were on the spot and profound, at least to him, as i dint agree with him…………well, u know better of course.
and……about me, (:-\) i always tend to have low profiles in all such large occasions somehow !!