Rum-Ion (ramayan) Saga
I was not a part of this saga. But came to know about it from different sources & using my creative imagination penning down the story. Story of our Ion aka Lodu. As his name shows Lodu was/is/will be always full of load (mostly unnecessary) & with a face like he suffering from the worst case of acute constipation. A Presi Graduate, SFI comrade, a computer geek, & a few pounds of extra fat.
One sunday after returning from home I found out that something had happened. Kamal told “hey do you know what Lodu had done yesterday?” . “No” I replied.
“How come I would know what happened out here when I was 150 kms away @ home? ” I thought & asked him “hey what happened? .”
“Ask him what he did yesterday? There he is coming now. Go and ask.” Kamal said.
I did exactly what Kamal told to do but got a serious look & later a smile which looked more a grin from Lodu. “It’s not the right time to ask this sort of question” I thought & so went to my most reliable informer in the hostel , Baccha.
Baccha was doing quantum mechanics assignment when I entered his room. “What’s the matter with Lodu? Why he is looking so depressed(a few extra degrees more than usual)? What happened?”
Then Baccha told me this.(later verified from other sources too).
Yesterday there was ‘Daroo Party’ as usual in the hostel & this time it was decided that Vodka has become too much repetitive & now its time for change. Change to Rum(a man’s drink). So the old monk was called for to join the party.
As for most of them it was the first exposure they decided to play safe. Well, almost everyone except Lodu. Don’t know what went in his mind as he decided to take his pegs count to a new height on that day. May be he wanted to prove how much a man he is or may be the “free” drink intensified his thirst. The after effect was literally catastrophic.
After 3 pegs Lodu started to announce his love for Prateek in front of the whole hostel(it was the first act of such kind, so everyone watched that eagerly). Prateek who was not that much drunk could not reciprocate the same love for Lodu. Rather than holding Lodu into his arms & giving him a kiss which everyone suggested , he decided to go to the safest place at that time, his hostel room. But Lodu was determined , nothing can stop him on that day. So after 2-3 more pegs he decided now its time, time to rescue his love from W1-205 (the dungeon) & rode back to E2-312 (his castle). Next was the search for his noble steed. But luck was not on his side on that day. He searched & searched in the cycle stand but his noble steed(2nd hand or may be a few hands more bought for Rs 500) did not turn up.
So Lodu decided to cover that distance on foot & in order to minimize the wait of his beloved he started to run.
But as we have seen in hindi movies , true love has many roadblocks , here too lodu faced one such roadblock. It came in form of a brick lying in the hostel lawn. He tumbled over it & fell down on the lawn. But no one came to his rescue (they were afraid as helping Lodu might trigger some sort of dormant love for them in Lodu’s heart). Prateek too did not show up. So Lodu decided to take a few minutes nap out there (love can be so tiring sometimes). After a short nap of 30 minutes lodu again woke up. But neither he could not find any living creature near his range nor the way to Prateek’s room, so he decided to express his emotions to a hostel pillar (I later wend to see the poor pillar). He clung to the pillar & uttered these two lines a few thousand times at least before deciding to spend the rest of the night out there beside it . “Prateek, please don’t leave me.” “I cannot live without you“.
The poor hostel pillar which could not run away since it was doing his duty of supporting the roof, stayed there & listened patiently to Lodu till he was exhausted.
That day everyone came to know another side of Lodu, the soft, the romantic, the brave prince & finally the heart broken one.
Rum surely had a deep impact on Ion creating the saga of a lifetime. I call it the Rum-Ion (pronounced as ramayan) Saga.
I was not a part of this saga. But came to know about it from different sources & using my creative imagination penning down the story. Story of our Ion aka Lodu. As his name shows Lodu was/is/will be always full of load (mostly unnecessary) & with a face like he suffering from the worst case of acute constipation. A Presi Graduate, SFI comrade, a computer geek, & a few pounds of extra fat.
One sunday after returning from home I found out that something had happened. Kamal told “hey do you know what Lodu had done yesterday?” . “No” I replied.
“How come I would know what happened out here when I was 150 kms away @ home? ” I thought & asked him “hey what happened? .”
“Ask him what he did yesterday? There he is coming now. Go and ask.” Kamal said.
I did exactly what Kamal told to do but got a serious look & later a smile which looked more a grin from Lodu. “It’s not the right time to ask this sort of question” I thought & so went to my most reliable informer in the hostel , Baccha.
Baccha was doing quantum mechanics assignment when I entered his room. “What’s the matter with Lodu? Why he is looking so depressed(a few extra degrees more than usual)? What happened?”
Then Baccha told me this.(later verified from other sources too).
Yesterday there was ‘Daroo Party’ as usual in the hostel & this time it was decided that Vodka has become too much repetitive & now its time for change. Change to Rum(a man’s drink). So the old monk was called for to join the party.
As for most of them it was the first exposure they decided to play safe. Well, almost everyone except Lodu. Don’t know what went in his mind as he decided to take his pegs count to a new height on that day. May be he wanted to prove how much a man he is or may be the “free” drink intensified his thirst. The after effect was literally catastrophic.
After 3 pegs Lodu started to announce his love for Prateek in front of the whole hostel(it was the first act of such kind, so everyone watched that eagerly). Prateek who was not that much drunk could not reciprocate the same love for Lodu. Rather than holding Lodu into his arms & giving him a kiss which everyone suggested , he decided to go to the safest place at that time, his hostel room. But Lodu was determined , nothing can stop him on that day. So after 2-3 more pegs he decided now its time, time to rescue his love from W1-205 (the dungeon) & rode back to E2-312 (his castle). Next was the search for his noble steed. But luck was not on his side on that day. He searched & searched in the cycle stand but his noble steed(2nd hand or may be a few hands more bought for Rs 500) did not turn up.
So Lodu decided to cover that distance on foot & in order to minimize the wait of his beloved he started to run.
But as we have seen in hindi movies , true love has many roadblocks , here too lodu faced one such roadblock. It came in form of a brick lying in the hostel lawn. He tumbled over it & fell down on the lawn. But no one came to his rescue (they were afraid as helping Lodu might trigger some sort of dormant love for them in Lodu’s heart). Prateek too did not show up. So Lodu decided to take a few minutes nap out there (love can be so tiring sometimes). After a short nap of 30 minutes lodu again woke up. But neither he could not find any living creature near his range nor the way to Prateek’s room, so he decided to express his emotions to a hostel pillar (I later wend to see the poor pillar). He clung to the pillar & uttered these two lines a few thousand times at least before deciding to spend the rest of the night out there beside it . “Prateek, please don’t leave me.” “I cannot live without you“.
The poor hostel pillar which could not run away since it was doing his duty of supporting the roof, stayed there & listened patiently to Lodu till he was exhausted.
That day everyone came to know another side of Lodu, the soft, the romantic, the brave prince & finally the heart broken one.
Rum surely had a deep impact on Ion creating the saga of a lifetime. I call it the Rum-Ion (pronounced as ramayan) Saga.
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