Love for losers Part 1

My last post was damn some serious and actually made no sense altogether to me when I read it again. So I decided let me get back to what I am best at.. Telling nonsense stories. And in the past one day I made this one up :P.

This is not a guide to love just a funny situation I thought of.

One or two characters are inspired from friends and family rest all is fictional.

I used the name malgudi from RK Narayn's Works. Though this malgudi seems to be a kind of city in northern India

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One last thing before you start reading this biotechnology has always seemed kind of strange to me. It is one thing that both medical and non-medical students can do and both complain about the syllabus not being of their interest (The medical people have problems with math and non-med people with bio).

Now read up

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Once upon a time not so long ago (it kind of gives the feel)

It was a normal summers day in malgudi. As normal as a day can be. The storm last night had left a few trees down and the all the cel phone networks had been down from midnight till four in the morning. Our story however begins at the very moment these networks came back to life. There were two beeps on Archana Singh's phone and the screen displayed "message delivered Ishan". The sound however did not disturb Archana who was sleeping at the time. Meanwhile some five miles away on the first floor of house number 651 shalimar estate another phone vibrated while on table it was kept face down so the screen was not visible. The sound made by the phone was hidden by the sound its owner Ishan's snoring. It was a special day for him because according to his friends he could now officially marry you-know-who (he had forbidden them to use the name). Meaning he had turned 21 on the very day. Birthday boy's snoring continued for two more hours until the door opened slowly and a girl n her nightdress her black hair tied loosely in a bun her eyes half shut from sleep but her mind fully alert walked in and picked the phone up. It was Priyanka, Ishan's baby (according to him) sister. She moved her head a bit closer to her slumbering brother's ear and yelled at the top of her voice "HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAAMCHOR." By the time Ishan got to his senses Priyanka had already read half the messages in his inbox and the first words he heard from her sister were "hmmmm happy birthday dear bless you. Sender Archana Received at 4 on five on may 18 hmmm aag dono taraf barabar lagi Hui hai subbah chaar baje messages he bhagwaan aajkal ke bachche to bilkul nhai padhte likhte." And by the time he could react Priyanka was far from his reach. "Being a national level gymnast is one thing and catching your sister while she is making fun of you another" he said to himself. At the same time he his mind drifted to the fact that Archana herself had sent that message. The girl who made him always nervous who had known him for 2 years as her friend's brother. Nothing more nothing less. But unlike Priyanka she used to call him by his name (which of course came as a relief). Priyanka somehow had sensed his nervousness and had had her pound of flesh for keeping her mouth shut. He had not been able to tell Archana anything for all the time he had liked her and was in no mood to do so(what if she thinks I am a flirt what if she stops talking to me? what if she tells mom? what if.....) Priyanka however understood his brother's feelings and also knew about the secrete admiration in her best friends heart for him. She just wanted to make sure that nothing went wrong at the time they confessed their feelings for each other. But to her annoyance her brother always stopped at an if." I will make sure that my best friend and my brother get the one they deserve this year."She made a mental note.

All these thoughts had caused a momentary silence which was broken by Priyanka."What day?" she asked "can be better for it? I will invite her for dinner; call Alok bhaiya as well so you don't freak out at the last moment. " Ishan as usual started "Priyanka come to your senses I can't propose her what if .." he never got to complete his sentence as the cel phone rang(Priyanka had turned the silent mode off). It was Alok his school time friend as well as near lookalike (according to Alok's parents people had confused them for twins). Priyanka answered and before Ishan could say anything she had told Alok her (their) plan and confided him in.

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Two hours later ACP Vijay Mehra was trying to understand the cause of the strange smile on his daughter's face. As far as his experience had told him this was a sure sign of approaching trouble. But Priyanka would not speak except for "Bhaiya has lost the bet and he will take me and Archana for movie tonight". Ishan meanwhile was quiet his face as if someone had hit it with a frying pan. "Alright" he "I will take you two but at least allow Alok to come." "Ok,but only Alok no one else I don't want anyone else, last year you had invited Raghuvanshi sir to dinner and we all had to behave as acche bachche" . came the reply .

"he's my Coach by the way and why are you calling that friend of yours for the movie".

"I won the bet loser and I can invite anyone whom I want to."

The argument could have taken a diabolical form had not ACP Vijay interrupted "Cut it out you two you still fight like 10 year olds. Rajni am leaving and if these two start a commotion again inform me the riot control vehicle has not been out on roads for some months now. "With those words he left the room not realizing that his son had just given a big thumbs up to his daughter who eyes were filled with tears of stopped laughter.

"… and how am involved in it?" Archana asked Priyanka in a semi interested tone.

"Because aaj hi ke manhoos din bhagwaan ne mere bhai ko is duniya mein bheja tha and aaj wo mujhe aur meri ek friend ko pizza party de raha hai. "

"but Priyanka I thought you didn't like pizza's ? And why only me?"

"Because you like pizzas and because you are my bestest best friend. Come by 7 in the evening "

 

Just 10 feet above this conversation Alok Sharma was sitting on the bed while his friend Ishan was moving from one side of the room to the other.

"Ishan relax if you are so tense now how will you handle it in the evening. Don't worry she can't say no."

" the thing that worries me more is that Priyanka has told movie at home and she has asked Archana for pizza. Idont know what she's up to. You know how she loves causing trouble."

"Chill yaar she's a genius. With that plan nothing can go wrong Archana will be left speechless when the pizza arrives."

"I hope she does not make her hand do the talking. Leave it. Have you started reading newspaper daily? My coaching guy repeated his affection for the edit page again. Why do I have to take CAT and can't be an IPS like dad."

"Because he thinks that the job is too rotten for a guy with morals. And you are talking all nonsense because of tension. The papers these days are filled with India's space mission. Nothing more. Just give him some crap from that and he'll be happy."

Time seems to fly when you are too happy or too tense because before Ishan could have anticipated it the clock had struck seven in the evening and he was sitting in Pizza Haven with the three he wanted to be with but also he wanted to postpone meeting all three of them for such a purpose indefiantly. Priyanka and Archana had given him star shaped a belt buckle which he was wearing with a yellow tee and a pair of blue jeans (Priyanka said Archana's favorite color was yellow.)

Coming back to pizza haven the order had been placed and Priyanka's chatterbox was on (as usual). "Bhaiya you know I told dad that we were going for a movie. But here we are… " . "But you said he promised a pizza" Archana interrupted. "yeah he did but papa se jhooth to nahi bol sakti hai na bhaiya. BHAIYA ..".. "Huh" Ishan was startled out of his his daze.

"What happened Ishan, you look worried everything alright na? how's CAT going?" Archana got a chance to speak again.

"Ah nothing am ok. The coaching is going fine just I have to start reading the newspaper more. How's your Medical going? "

"Good though I still don't understand why do we have to learn all Math and please try to remember its Biotechnology and not Medical. Waise I didn't mind."

Keeping quiet for such a long period of time was just too much for Priyanka "hello padhaakoo log main movie ki baat kar rahi thi. So I was saying that Mr. Ishan Mehra here was going to show us a romantic movie but because we are here so I think that he will have to act himself."

She was interrupted by Alok who upon seeing the self-service number change actually ran to get the pizza.

"He's hungry that friend of yours??" Archana giggled to Ishan who again was looking lost.

 

And when Alok did return with the pizza Archana was the first one to notice "hey Alok why is it shaped like a heart you sure that was our order and notr of someone love struck."

Alok simply replied "both the options are correct Ishan will explain."

Ishan started " um Archana actually this pizza … what actually … Priyanka movie no actually Alok no Archana its like this that actually I I I …"

" Bhaiya chup karo aap bilkul nikamme ho. Moti sun this brother of mine wants to say "I love you" to you but I think that god has decided to take his power of speech just at the right moment so I will have to propose you." And before Archana could have made the sense out of anything Priyanka had stood up and forced Ishan out of his chair on his knees and continued "Archana he loves you from the depth of his heart and will you be my sister in law. And yes that pizza was for you two."

Priyanka's plan had not worked exactly but with some interference from her Archana actually stood speechless. Her eyes darting from Priyanka to Ishan. She didn't know whom to address. She had liked Ishan from the moment she saw him. And this was the strangest way in which Ishan could have proposed her. The moment she found her speech back she managed to say just one word.

"Yes."

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Well that's all I was able to think of. ("The sicko he left the story incomplete.")

I actually intended to stop here because this post was titled "love for losers" and not "highly mushy college romance." I wanted to conclude nothing with this except that having an overconfident chatterbox for a sister actually helps sometimes (I personally have none). As for the characters in the story all I can say is that they lived happily ever after J

 

Again if you think that this was a total waste of space and time(yours) then feel free the comments box is waiting.

Otherwise if you feel that it actually was my my magnificent octopus(magnum opus) then also feel free. And in case you feel nothing then **** *** (fill it with your choice of a four letter word followed by a 3 letter word. Good bye seems like a good option to fill in the blank, but we may differ)

Take care

O Draconian Devil…

For those who have read Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci code" this line would point to an anagram. But before you form any opinions in your mind about this post being about Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa I would say well no. Neither is it in anyway related to Anagrams. And for those who have not read the abovementioned work ignore the above lines but do spare some hours for the book (they won't be wasted).

Am actually going to talk about what are known as draconian regimes. The word Draconian has its origins in the name of an Athenian(Greek) law giver.(Though Draco is the Latin word for dragon as well. ) And a draconian regime is a one with really tough laws( Death penalty for almost everything just because Draco could not think of something worse for people who had committed greater crimes.) Now you might be thinking that the concept of such things is barbaric or rather unfit for any civilized society. But don't we ourselves advocate the tougher laws. "Corrupt babus should be hanged from electricity poles. "(A Supreme Court judge) "Drunk drivers should be executed on the spot"(Freakonomics). "Those who don't bunk classes should be slapped in public"(A classmate whose identity I would like to withhold).

The reason for us advocating such harsh(and hardly human) laws might lie in the fact that the acts for which we seek these punishments lie well outside the boundary of our prescribed code of ethics("ok bunking classes is not included in ethics ;) ) . But however what we do forget is that many times in our life we do land up on what might be "worth-a-capital-punishment" according to someone. Maybe even us. For example just remember the last time when you cursed the politicians for misuse of government facilities while leaving the lights of your own office/room etc. switched on over the weekend. We do often complain about the corrupt cops but when caught while violating some traffic laws we are the ones to offer the cops some "chai paani" to let us off. So it's a paradox that we have in here. For others we want stricter laws and harsh punishments. We want others to be the ideal citizens for us (actually we don't want that either because that way we won't be able to satisfy our egos by criticizing them.) While on our turn of being ideal we want all the laws set aside. Another quote that comes to my mind at this instant is "When others are involved we want justice but when we are involved we want a compromise. " Now it's time to write something that might(no that will) be viewed as stupid idealism but is none the less a fact. The change must start from ourselves and we are the only ones we can only change. Stricter punishments only mean a forced peace. Its just like supressing the symptoms and not the solution. We must be the change the we want in this world and that only is a way to change it.

Apart from this we should not expect that the world to be as virtuous as us. And imposing our virtues on others is actually being the start of following Draco. As an example consider this , "A decorated solider of the first world war, a dedicated patriot, great orator, charismatic leader who wanted his people to hold supremacy in the world.(Sounds like someone with great ideas na.) was actually the person who is viewed as one of the greatest villains of the 20^th century. And for those who have not recognised him, am talking about Hitler. Adolf Hitler he wanted his country and race the be the supreme on earth so he started eradicating competition. And what resulted was the greatest war that man has ever seen.

Drawing to a conclusion all I would say is that be the change that you want in this world but don't expct the world to change with you. Be the forerunner, the foundation stone in what you believe can be a revolution. Because your actions might even make the world a better place to be for the genrations to come.

And if you feel that this was too much non-sense even by Ribhu standards just comment in one word. Stop.

Take care J