My first

I went to see Dostana some days back. Its the story about two Guys who come to see an apartment for rent, they liked the apartment but came to know that since it was to be shared with a girl they can’t get it. So, they lied to be gays to the lanlord and the girl to get it. But later in the film they fell in love with the same girl, but she is in love with some other guy. So they do all funny and idiotic things to break there relationship. But finally the girl comes to know about there plans, when they plead for forgiveness, she asks the two guys to kiss each other in front of everybody for her to forgive them. They hesitate at first but finally kiss each other in the climax. At that time one thought came to my mind and I looked around and saw some people in shock, some people laughing with expression as “How can anybody do this”. Some just surprised. One guys has particularly no expression on his face which made me to think that may be he has done this many times beforeJ.

This reminded me of my good old college ragging days. We were made to do many things during our ragging period that many can't imagine of. Even when I think of it now I can’t believe that I did all those things in my college. But again I always want to go back to those days and live that life again. There was one particular incident during my ragging that I avoid discussing.

I joined my college and ragging started full time from the first day itself. Perhaps our senior believed too much in the saying of Kabir, ”kal karey so aaj kar , aaj karey so ab”. The seniors are so creative in finding new ways of ragging, Perhaps they exhaust all there ideas in the college days itself and leave nothing for the future. If they would have shown the same creativity in there job everybody must have been scientists by now. There were many things that we did as a part of Ragging or was done to us, but that I will discuss in some other blog. There was one incident which is worth mentioning separately.

It all happened late in the night one day when we just returned from a ragging session and were getting ready for sleep when a senior came to our room and shouted at us,”kya be tum log ko jyada neend aa raha hai kya, chal us room se baaki teen ko lekar mere room main aa jayo tum saare”. I thought another round of ragging now, but what will they do now? They have probably exhausted everything that can be done to a human being. Anyways thinking I went to the other room and told other three guy to come to the seniors room. One of them commented,”saalon ko bina ragging kiye neend nahin aata hai, khud to sota nahin aur apne ko bhi sone nahin deta, chal pata nahin aaj kya karega saala”.
I would like to mention here that before this incident I started kinda liking it, means ragging. It was sort of fun (only when done on somebody else :)). It was a good timepass, got slapped many times but it was ok. You only feel the first slap after that you think, just slap me and get over with it.

So we went to that seniors room took permission to enter and stood in front of him. There was one senior in that room who always asked me to sing in front of him and I always sang the same song. That day also he asked me to sing a song and I started singing the same song when he slapped me tight saying "saale main sunte sunte bore ho gaya lekin tu gaate gaate bore nahin hua, sui atak gaya hai kya tera, ja side main jakar chair ban ja"(This means you should sit on a chair only there will be no chair below you, very painful , if you ask me, if made to sit for more than 1 min).
The second guy came and was asked to name five condoms brand. The guy was able to say only two and was slapped three times and the senior shouted "saale condom ka brand bhi nahin pata family planning kya khak karega, ja tu bhi chair ban ja". The senior looked around for some answers and I thought shit, even I don’t know more than two and looked at the other side. He looked at me and said,”abe muuh kya ghuma raha hai nahin aata hai to, tujhe baad main dekhta huun”. I need to admin that these seniors become damn smart when they are doing ragging. Perhaps the power brings smartness. Everybody came one by one and got slapped depending on the 'sins' he committed at that time.