BHAAG BANKAR BHAG

BHAAG BANKAR BHAG… by Prashant SR

EMWT was one of the most challenging subjects in engineering according to me…neither did we (well most of us) understand anything conceptually nor could we solve the problems mathematically … now unlike other subjects emwt was a 2 pronged problem…we not only had the tests to worry about (i.e. copy in) but also had to survive the emwt assignment lectures in which we had to solve problems that were given before hand… now as future engineers we had to find a solution to this problem (at least till the prelims) and like most engineers we copied the idea of our seniors.. we used to take Xerox of the assignment sheet and copy it during the assignment lectures. things were going great until one day we were told that the next assignment will be a test and we wouldn’t be provided questions beforehand. it was no big deal to fail in test actually but the catch was that it was emwt assignment test and god knows if we would be provided questions for the retest too…so I and rao decided that we will split the portion among ourselves and then help each other during the test.. Naturally like always on the test day neither I nor rao had studied any thing. So we decided that we will bunk electronics lecture and at least try and memorize some formulas so that we have something to write other than our names and roll nos on the answer sheet. As always bankar too joined in with us and decided to bunk the lecture.

So after break there were 2 elex lectures we decided to bunk and study for the test.. After having a real heavy lunch at ramdev we made our way towards the library…just when we were going to enter we decided against getting inside coz we wouldn’t be allowed to have healthy discussions on the subject (actually off the subject ) inside and so sat on the steps just outside the library. I don’t really remember what happened for the rest of the first lecture..all I remember is we didn’t studying a word in emwt..we lost one of the two lectures just talking.. As soon as the second lecture started we saw Mr. Sainkar going down stairs from where we were sitting…he didn’t notice us..we thought that we were really lucky to have escaped his eyes this time and decided that it wasn’t the best place to sit and “study” and that we should move out from here before he returns back..i don’t know whether it was the hot weather or the heavy lunch we didn’t move from there. And then it happened.

I saw Mr. Sainkar coming upstairs right where we were sitting. Seeing him immediately I picked my bag and ran up. Bankar didn’t know what had happened but he followed me and picked up his bag and began to run up..i guess with a delay of about 3 seconds as compared to me(huh sorry for getting a lil technical here!!) ..but poor guy he hardly had climbed a few steps that Mr. Sainkar caught him running…it was amazingly funny…just imagine two 20 year old guys running on seeing their lecturer.!! I was very happy that at least I had had escaped ..but that happiness was short lived as the first question that he asked bankar was “where is the other one??”…naturally u don’t require hawk eyes to realize that a big guy like me had just ran away from the scene.. so I came down…he in his typical style started nodding his head….”go.. go and meet reddy sir” he yelled… I quietly nodded my head but bankar wouldn’t give up without a fight..”sir please!!” he pleaded…. “no…!!” was the response…while all this was happening suddenly I remembered that we were three of us.. …where is rao?? I thought … I looked back and saw rao studying Wali like I had never seem him study before…he wasn’t blinking his eyelids…my god is he dead or something or has he gone into some kind of coma… I am not exaggerating here….its rao remember we are talking about…anything is possible when rao gets tensed…finally when sir left we went to rao ..rao was still studying..we went and sat next to him and he burst out laughing…he was so proud of himself…he said that he had managed to escape due to his sheer quick thinking and presence of mind…this guy had nicely hid his face behind the book when we two fools were running away…

Suddenly I realized I had a test to give the next lecture …all this had certainly made one thing clear ..now that I have been caught running I couldn’t afford to be caught again copying ….so I didn’t copy in that emwt test…and of course I didn’t do that …in fact I think I only wrote my name and roll number in that test…

Our HOD had gone for some industrial visit so we were spared. Rao saala passed the test too ...probably due the feel good factor...he was so proud of himself..he felt that he had escaped unhurt due his presence of mind...nah I tell you the real reason...it was just that he was too scared to move and run and had kind of frozen when he saw us being caught...rao naturally disagrees..

till date I wonder why the hell did I run that day !!...ahhhhh wtf shit happens!!

Contributed by Prashant SR