It had to happen to him too...

It had to happen. It happened to me, so it had to happen to him too. “After all the Nakshatras are the same mama” ;)

LOL… I reminisce those days when I first met Keshav…he came across as a very soft-spoken-kiddish-charm-chocolate-hero type of a character. We instantly hit it off together…but then that’s where the story begins.

I had carried too many “backs” (read as backlogs) into my odd semester in Ramaiah (MSRIT). I knew it would be happy days for the next one year even while I was writing those useless exams. I had to dunk.
Previous year, Keshav…a brilliant guy that he is…decided that he was not exercising enough and that he needed to log more number of laps (his version of Sleep) in his everyday (also night) schedule. Conveniently sleeps through the most dreadful (S.o.M) exam, and as he was hardly ever seen attending classes, it was but natural for Dr. Muthu to take a call and dunk him.

Keshav & I meet up to form an India Light Music (ILM) band with Chinmayee, Muin and Nachiketh. And then the most famous “Arundathi” happens.

Keshav’s obsession for sleep is better explained in this anecdote:

We had newly started this band we called RASP (Ramaiah Akhil Sangeet Parishad) and we were supposed to start jamming. With my tooth extracted in the morning, and the blood still refusing to clot in my mouth, I rushed to Keshav’s place only to find that he was blissfully sleeping. When asked, he casually replied “Oh! That? Aaah! Nobody told you kya? Our jamming program was cancelled…Chinmayee called and asked me to inform you about it…thought I will inform you later!” (I am still amazed as to how I could control my anger when he said…“Oh! That? Nobody told you kya?”

Our mutual interest in music, movies, Ayn Rand’s philosophy, Physics (Astro Physics) etc. only brought us together, just as our alternate year dunking, which kept at least one of us free to concentrate on music ;))

And then, like always, good things had to come to an end. Time flew…we’re still great friends. I got hitched…he fell in love…and life goes on…

But good thing’s that…we are going to be classmates once again…@ NLS, Bangalore…yeah! F@*#! believe it…