Monday, October 31, 2005

zondya



My last friend in the Campus. Zondya. Nitin. A good feller.

Time has come to leave. Leave the childhood behind. We are shifting out of the place we have been staying for the past 20 years. The years of fun and frolic. School. College. My teens. The chor-poolice whole day. The football in the middle of the night. The fights. The parties. The night-outs. The TT mania. The "she is not for you". The place where I first fell in love. The place of my first heartbreak. The place where I used to take lots of walks in the rain with her.

One time, when I had finished my Std IV exams we visited a strange place in Kalina. We travelled from Tarkhad Village via Vasai. The occasion was the visit of the Haeley's comet. A large telescope had been put up on top of a large mysterious building. In the darkness I could see lots of mysterious people and children. The feller with the telescope showed us the comet. He also explained how to find it (it was not visible to the naked eye) with a pair of binoculars. I have memories of tracking it down and finding it. That hazy fluffy patch of sky seen through a 20x50 Zenith. I had always been interested in the heavens.

That place was the University of Mumbai Campus. That building was the LN Library building. Those children were to be my friends. That was the place we were to shift to, flat no.4, bldg. A, my father's newly acquired quarters, and to my new school before it started... That was March 1986.

One part of my life comes to an end.
Adios.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

When are you moving? Where?

Who was 'she'?





- Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Anonymous said...

Can I have my prism back?





- Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

quasi said...

grandfather? from yonder? because the only prism I remember having was my grandfathers ...

quasi said...

moving soon. moving away. she was my first love.

Anonymous said...

HINT:

School recess - prism exchange



- Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Anonymous said...

were 'HER' initals S.K. ?

and is she in the queen's land?





- Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Anonymous said...

nope. :) S.K. was my first crush. She is in queesn's land (last I heard) .. My first love was P.P. hehe ... and I still dont remember the prism exchange...