A pic, A thousand words, Bonds for life,

And a sucky senti title for a blog

The pic that you see on your left is legendary,( not the least because of me trying to reach Dutta's shoulder to rest my arm)…some random day, some random guy decided that all of us in T batch (well that was my first year batch in VIT, with guys from all branches except Biotech and Bioinfo , alas!! The poor gender ratio) will wear kurtas to college and pose, and the result is the photo that u see on top…

 

Now something about the guys in the pic, starting from left,

 

OMG, are we talking about one of the most popular guys in the college, Jayant Narayan, a name very quickly discarded by inmates at VIT, popularly known as Bh***a in the first year by everyone, the name bears a testament to his networking skills :P.   Seen him through various shades in VIT, just like his hairline…but what really stood the test of time was his pessimism to anything and everything in life, I don’t know why but he always thought that he had been singled out by fate for the worst of things,  and the best part was his approach to exams, used to study his back side off for exams, (Man!! Can I forget those power walks that me, daddu and charul used to go on during exams, remind me to talk more about it later) and then after every exam he used to give this gesture, and say that this was the worst exam that he had attempted in his life and he was screwed and his happyness was screwed and god knows what else was screwed, but somehow and I repeat somehow his marks never reflected the anatomical torture that he mentioned that he had undergone during the exam.  Well daddu is too interesting a character to describe completely in one post, he will be back but lets move on to the others.

 

Second from left, Vaidyanathan Subramanium, too long a name so someone decided to shorten it up and so he came to be known as 'Baldy' no prizes for guessing why…used to obsess about his hairline in the first year but then gave up the struggle against the 'Silicon Carbide' hardened water of Vellore.  Well what about Baldy, the guy claimed to know as many as 5 languages but trust me he couldn’t ask for directions to the loo without offending the other person, in anything other than english.  Had a knack of coming up with lots of catch phrases in Hindi/English, like 'Naked Dance of Inhumanity (Haiwaniyat ka Nanga Naach) and what not…an awesome sketcher…was part responsible for putting up my caricature across campus, but more about that later…

 

And now we come to Dams!! Or Damani Abhishek Shantikumar as he was called by more civilized people…At the time of clicking this photo, Damani was head over heels in love with a girl…no big deal, happens everyday in an Engg college, but as with all love stories there was a competitor, needless to say none of them ended up doing anything about it, what a bunch of loosers :P…

 

( I am sure damani is gonna let loose a flurry of counter attacks/ abuses )

 

Coming on to Dutta, or Arnab Da as we called him, a gizmo freak to the core, being with dutta guaranteed that you will have a peak at the latest cell phone in the market within a month of its release or even earlier… and how can a mention of datta be complete without mentioning all those super awesome sweets that he got for us….

 

So there it is, the four guys who were among my first friends at VIT, the guys who called themselves the 'Kanda Club' (the origin of this is pretty disputed, while Dams!! Says it is entirely a figment of my imagination, my version is that we named ourselves 'Kanda Club' with the sole objective of furthering Damani's romantic interests, against his competitor…

 

Let Truth Prevail!!

 

 

P.S. well I remember that before I stopped writing last year, I had plans of writing a Life@VIT kind of series, well this is entirely different from what I had in mind, was feeling pretty nostalgic about the college days (bole to VIT) so uploaded a few pics on orkut, and with the kinda comments that I got I realised I wasn’t alone, and from there this idea of a photo blog for vit originated,

 

@guys from VIT--keep pouring with ur expert comments and more interesting tidbits and scandals, would love to get a few scandalous pics if u wanna share

 

@others--- I realise that you wont be able to relate to it as such, but I am sure you will find a taste of your college life in here too

 

 

P.P.S. why did I write the above part, why do I even have to justify myself, guess I take this blog a bit too seriously :P