Their Forest of Burden! 🙃
#memoriesfromdiaries 💛
06 July 1997
The very first week of our hostel life had a great deal of ragging in store for all of us, freshers, more especially for those of us who sat back the weekend in the hostel.
Indeed, our pranksterish seniors always had some ingenious tricks up their sleeve, meticulously plotted out for each passing day, more so, if it was a Saturday or a Sunday!
Sunday being a holiday, it was raining cats and dogs in their Forest of Burden, as usual!
After having had our lunch in the Dining Hall, we [freshers] used to take the path beside the cricket ground, that led to our ‘A’ Hostel.
Much to their delight, (and much to our chagrin), this was the very chance, that they all had been longing for! Nay, drooling for…!
And when a pavapetta junior happened to pass them by, their excitement and joy was of a sort, that had no parallels ever in the annals of academia! 😋
In a jiffy, thence, the junior was bundled up to their ‘august’ presence, kickstarting their baptism by fire!
In like fashion, on this particular day, they spotted pavapetta me walking all alone to my room, after a sumptuous Sunday lunch, and yes… you guessed it right…! their laddu for the day was made! 😋
Interestingly, just over a few minutes before me flying swainggg into their frying pan, two of my batchmates were already being roasted bigtime on the pan!
Those two - of my kind and ilk (first years) – had just then been given instructions to fight a duel with two little twigs (twigs the size of a little fountain pen!)
And the deal of the duel?
Whoever wins [the duel] [yes! on single combat mode], gets to garland the queen (pavapetta me)! 🥴
For heaven’s sake, don’t ask me who won! 😅
After this or‘duel’ of sorts, we were next asked to dance to yet another beat - of an entirely different order!
This time - to play katcheri, seated in a neat formation!
I was asked to play on the violin, while my friend was asked to play on the mridangam!
So far so good! Then came the embarrassing ‘catch!’
We were asked to use some not-so-good words while playing on the instruments!
Hence the symbolic ‘greening’ of those words! 🙈
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