Noida 12-22

Part 1

Summer was ruling that time of the year in 2006 the prickly heat and unavoidable power cuts in Noida had transformed all negis, kotiyals , dhyanis to dull boys. NCR literally turned into an oven that year, believe me. But life goes on , it was the time when my college friend Jagat Negi and I were thinking to make a matrimonial ads consulting site, something like a free online consulting page , the objective was to help prospective bride and grooms. Helping them in writing their SOPs, we thought we will provide words to their expressions; we’ll help them in rephrasing their matrimonial advertisements well in English. So they can mark a very good first impression through their ad in popular matrimonial web sites. It was Jagat’s brilliant idea, philanthropy has never been my cup of tea, but he wanted to return something good, back to the society. The seed germinated in Jagat’s ever fertile brain probably because, he could not find any single impressive write-up of any girl in any of the matrimonial site that year; he initially used to laugh. But seeing so many grammatical mistakes, improper punctuation usages , big expectations bluntly mentioned in those advertisements he sometimes felt like leaving India for ever. 

Not to forget internet browsing was still expensive , around 30Rs/hour. Anyways we discussed about this online consulting firm for few days or may be few hours, felt attached to our beloved state, but then as if Jagat found one impressive write-up and hence wilted the consulting firm seed in that prickly summer which we thought will be a big tree one day.  It is true that “need” is the mother of inventions.

In one such hot noon, Rumit reached at Jagat’ Sec 57 room and the 3 dulls decided to go to Atta market  Centerstage mall, a way to escape heat in the centrally AC mall ,biggest of its type those days in NCR, some greenery for Rumit’s always thirsty eyes too.  Rumit actually needs no introduction, a friend of friends and dushmano ka dushman ,he passed engineering from the same college with distinction in all subjects, wildly famous for his jaw breaking punch, he always threatened innocent opponents ,participants even in tame group discussions to break their teeth if anyone doesn’t agree, it is believed that his roommates in college years used to wear hidden boxing like jaw guards. By this time however no such jaw breaking incident ever took place, Rumit is also famous for styling his hair with minimal availability. Gone are the past days now…. what happened in the evening?...To be continued.

~bd