Love story of Chibil continued……….

Khambao a girl living in the outskirts of Gopal was um……… let’s just say not a normal girl and why not, does our hero deserve a petty earthling as his mate? No way! A normal silly girl child would like irrelevant things such as Barbie or stuffed toys but Khambao being so special had special choices. She would prefer an ape over an apple (still the doctor would remain away from her, for her might be it was an ape a day keeps the doctor away). Anyhow moving to less illogical contexts, she had a special liking for animals and consequently she ended up in a zoo I mean as a guide in a zoo.

She belonged to a middle class family of Gopal and was the second child of her parents. Her father was an archeologist and mother, curator at the city museum. Maybe it was this ‘historical’ background that Khambao had somehow played a role in deciding the destiny of her’s and our hero after all its history that Chibil is all about. As a child Khambao would go to the museum with her mother and  would carefully listen to all the free guided tour which was offered and would enjoy all the folk-lores and legends. It was then when she first came across the name Chibil, according to many historical records of ancient civilizations such as Aztec, Zulu and the Greeks, there existed a great legend who was born sometime back in three lakh B.C.  who possessed all the talents and that he discovered and invented uncountable things, that he graces earth with his incarnations and also that his powers had gone asleep due to some reason which no one knew. It was during this time that Khambao had an arisen intrest in the legend but had no idea as such that the same would come in her life sometime in future.

So, after college due to her keen interst in archeology and mathematics she applied for the post of guide at the local zoo. What……!! Does everything need to be logical, it’s about Chibil after all. So, quietly keep on reading. Having joined the zoo as a guide Khambao made a very special friend there,`Kansi’ was the name of the ape that she had befriended. Each day after her shift at zoo, she and Kansi used to hang on, `obviously’ they could not hang out on branches of tress. For hours they used to discuss astrology and anatomy. But this was not to be for very long, for his ‘unapely’ behavior and excess violence with fellow, Kansi was moved out of the zoo and was exiled into the forest in the outskirts of Gopal. Khambao did not like this separation and therefore moved on but Kansi had taken those hours seriously so much that he started to search for her everywhere in the forest and even in the town(don’t ask me why in forests!!...).

The search proved to be very exhausting and long for Kansi. During this he had been shot at seven times, beaten numerous times whenever either he got in someone’s home, bathroom, and even bedroom looking for his Khambao.  It had been four months now and poor Kansi was starting to loose hope but as it was meant to be, he happened to be standing just below the house where Chibil had knocked on Valentine’s morning and heard Chibil’s  proposal. Yes, finally Kansi had found Khambao but not in the most of pleasant ways. 

I LOVE HERE @ COLLEGE

Bright heads lying on the desk remembering the good old days when they used to solve deadly problems of mechanics from ‘Irodov’ or the vicious questions of calculus. Not too long ago the same minds had conviction to change the world, to explore the aglow world of knowledge and to study when they would go to college. College that too an IIT meant and still means for those who are entirely secluded from it, a sort of a knowledge shrine where one could pursue all his scientific temperaments through research. The clueless faces occupying seats in class at college are the same that used to be in perfect synergy when they were taught much deeper and tougher concepts at their coaching classes during JEE preparations. Surely it can’t be that their IQ disappeared in thin air. Keeping track of what is being ‘taught’ suddenly appears to be a challenge worth great deal for those who came off their schools in flying colours. And exams!, they are differently perceived now. More than knowledge its management skill that one performs in two days before the exams to get fair grades. Arranging Xerox of the notes, books and more importantly the syllabus are the tasks of utmost importance before any exam. Surely there are some questions that why an IIT undergrad might say “MAA  C****** MID-SEM END-SEM PHODENGE” ? Are we accomplishing what we wanted to when we entered the gates of JEE centers? Or rather are we inspired to accomplish anything like that?But wait..! did you think this was going all dark shady?? And that someone experiencing this might some day call it off by scripting “I QUIT” on the walls of his room then I would say you are ummm…….?? a bit judgemental .  College my dear is that Pandora box where you get all the shortcuts to success, an exhilarating ride into the world of fun and adventure. Fun that teaches a lot, funny isn’t it? A maze with only two ends, “You get in somehow and get out somehow”!