A forest named IIT!

One Friday morning just as we girls settled in the class reading some newspapers, my friend suddenly asked, “Hey guys! Come let’s go attend SHAASTRA! ” (I had totally no idea what it was!) Owing to the fact that our classmates had been there the previous day, we wanted to visit that as well. I then learnt that it was the name of the TECH FEST at the INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Chennai.. IIT being our neighbouring campus we didn’t want to miss it! Our classes got over at 12.05 pm…. And we started. I went in my bike whereas two of my other friends preferred walking. They waited at the exit gate when I entered through the entry gate….here started the confusion! I kept on driving driving driving! Didn't know where the roads were leading to! I didn’t even notice the missed calls by my two other friends (mobile phone being inside my bag). I asked a person whether they knew the way to SHAASTRA; he gave such a weird reaction as if I was an alien. At once I realized that I owned a mobile phone and responded to the missed calls to my two other friends. I have always had thought that all my friends knew something more than me when it comes to remembering the way or, knowing the map of a particular area. I was stupefied when I understood that I had my friends also inquiring the way. So I felt I had to take up this responsibility (as a motorist) of “finding the way” in that thick forest! Somehow I made up my mind to ask another student however weird his reaction would be. We have always been taught the traits of an effective communicator  that made me do this. So when inquired, he pointed his hand straight to a ground where the food stalls of SHAASTRA had been. (It is always embarrassing when one almost having reached the place and asks the way to go there!) . I waited at the entrance of the ground near a famous landmark inside the campus called the GAJENDRA CIRCLE (GC). I directed my friends over the phone to ask for that place and find me. I was doing something that any other person bored of waiting would do- tuning into some of melodious tunes in the mobile phone. My friends, tired of walking, made a call asking me to pick them up… I thought of nothing but started my bike. Sometime later I realized that my dearly bike had to carry three girls of weights (55+45+50) summing up to a whooping 150 kilograms! Oh my God! But with all those thoughts running in my mind, I went about searching for my friends exactly in the direction opposite in which they were approaching. This time after driving about for two minutes I got a call that they were already there at the GC! We three were really glad to see each other as if we have been in separation for longtime (half an hour)! First thing that we did was; we went to a sandwich stall and ordered for some nice sandwiches and omelets. Other delicacies like ice creams and chocolates were out of our reach, owing to our “ever empty” wallets! We emptied our pockets and went towards the actual area where the SHAASTRA was taking place but seriously we never reached there! Our legs started to ache, the Mighty sun was really throwing his anger and fury upon us and humidity was at its best! All the three of us then agreed on one final decision- that was to return back home. Now again I felt deep in my mind that I ought to drop my friends near the exit gate but deeper was the sad plight of my bike! (Remember 150 kilograms)! After many fuzzy decisions taken by the three of us, finally we landed on the idea of going for a triples ride (with one of my friend referring to herself as a BROKEN ARROW between us)! I could hear my bike cry but I kept saying to myself that EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! After a 20 minute drive we landed near the exit gate of the IIT! I realized three things today! First one to carry a sum more than 50 bucks in my wallet, second to know the geographical map of the area to visit and third, that my bike could actually carry a load thrice of that of mine!!!

THAT MONDAY MORNING…..

NEWSLETTER!