THE LONGEST WEEK OF MY LIFE

It was a week which changed my life or at least changed me. Each moment, each event I remember till now as if it happened yesterday.

My morning of 14th September started with a strange thing ! I wake up early in the morning at 5 o'clock. It was quite a unusual thing and not used to happen as of fen. But a more significant moment was about to come. I was taking drinking water from the chiller near the stairs as I saw Ansari coming from the gate of E hostel. OH GOD.....! his facial expression was so blank and straight, no emotion, no smile nothing. I thought its going to happen something today, I don't know good or bad.

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There are times in your life when you are so bold to face anyone without knowing where does this boldness comes from?

It was 4 o'clock of that Wednesday then and my classes were over. I just ran to the playground as I saw Verna and Sanjay going to the same, throwing my books to Kattu's room at ground floor. I left my ID card also there itself. Sanjay was bowling very fast to 'Bumsi' on that evening
'He is coming' Sanjay pointed out, as students started running here and there......!
"So what why should we fear about?" I replied.
"You don't know him, he catches 2-3 students everyday from this ground" he ran away saying these words
"So what I am not going to run away. I have done nothing wrong " I stayed there calm and cool.

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He came straight to me, caught my color "you bastard what are you doing here? ragging 1st yrs....??? give me your ID card".
"Sir, its not with me" I replied.
"You r from which state?" a single question from his side.
I answered. He took out my mobile and purse forcefully from my pocket.
I retaliated "sir, what are you doing? first of all leave my color. I am not a lay man , why are you behaving like this?"
Then he slapped me"I will see you. I wouldn't let you get a degree from this institute."
I also told him "you can't do any thing... if I have done nothing wrong." he left the ground frustrated. Entire ground was seeing all these things in disbelief. Then suddenly "HIP HIP HURRAY" sounded from all sides.
"You have done it man"
"What a courageous person?"
"He will never come to the ground again"
"I thought it was the fastest jog of his life" everyone had their own opinion.

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For next two days I was roaming in the hostel, on the road like a DON. Everyone asked me about that incident. I explained to each and every person in detail mixing some spice from my side also.
'A notice will definitely come.'said somebody.
'No, I think he is not going to tell this incident to anybody' pointed out another, as we were sitting in the mess.
And a notice came -- " All 2nd and 3rd yrs from Bihar and Jharkhand are ordered to assemble in front of Mech Power Lab at 9 p.m.". And we all were standing there just waiting, waiting and waiting.......
'Come one by one' words echoed from inside of the room as we started fighting to go first n see how the disciplinary committee acts. After all it was our first experience. First went Rajesh......
"what you did at that day?"
"why not you went to play?"
"what is your G.P.A?"
"why your G.P.A. is so low ?"
All kind of bullshits they could have they asked. After two, three, four they ordered c'mon all 3rd yrs come inside and the moment I entered the room he jumped from his chair and pointed out to me "yeah...! he is the man.....!"

Ok who else were there? Verma and Sanjay raised their hands. "Rest all just get lost from here" one of them barked. "So, I want to see who the brave person was?" he was facing me 'give me your occupancy card'. "Sir its not with me" I replied. "What ??, do you think we all are sitting fools over here???" the person sitting in middle of the table was about to be mad.

Then also I was praying Oh! God leave us fast we have to watch India vs Pak T-20 match from 9:30. "Nothing will happen now we have to hand over him to the police."words of wisdom echoed as final verdict."you all get lost , go to hell" as we happily departed.

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Then we came to the hostel and saw India beating Pakistan in a bowl out 3-0. Saturday Sunday passed in guessing what will happen and what will not happen??? Towards Sunday night all started to believe that it seems nothing will happen.

Meanwhile we watched T20 world cup whole day, played cards and did all the things that we can. Internet had just started to come in E hostel so we enjoyed chatting also from ours room.

And that was Monday's 4th hour when notice came I had been suspended from the class for indefinite period. I was sent back to hostel from Geotech class and a DISCO (Disciplinary Committee) had been formed to enquiry further. My longest week of life had been just started. Well , life is like that it screws you right when you think you have understood it.........!

I did not told anything to my parents. It was very hard to come out of my room. Everybody was seeing me with some questions in their eyes. My nights had became sleepless. OH....! GOD what happened??? how I came to all this? I was always a topper in my school. But what happened to me now? Here I was clueless sitting in my room @ 4a.m. suspended from the classes without knowing anything about my future. But after two sleepless night I decided to enjoy this unwanted holidays. I left all the things to the god or better say to the DISCO.

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Most of the time went in watching T20 world cup cricket. We cheered India beating Pakistan in final. M.S.Dhoni won the toss and the match straight in a row four times. What a leader he was? I have been a great fan of him that's also because he comes from the same place from where I am. After all T20 was a great success. I don't know T20 was arranged for me during that unemployment or I was given a holiday to just watch T20 world cup.

Between breaks we never missed playing cards. The greatest edict was Ansari. Actually he is used to become mad behind a particular thing for the whole semester. 2nd sem it was orkut, 3rd sem it was maths tutorial (he had solved each and every question at least 4 times)
and 5th sem it was playing cards. So some times we played from 7 o'clock evening (after dinner) to 7 o'clock morning (before breakfast) unstopped. Another great player was "Baba" who deserves his name to be mentioned here. Now the CASINO has been shifted to his room which was earlier Ansari's room.

Third most interesting thing we did was on net. Its a very usual story. Somebody firstly spends hours to search a good looking girl on orkut (if photo is there). Then the moment any hosteler notices that the girl is responding that guy as many friend request and as many scraps was sent to that girl that she was forced to delete her account. More of that it was a great fun that after spending hours behind a girl when anybody came to know that it was a hosteler (guy) who was talking to him as a girl (fake profile).here i want to tell something about Verma..... when he was trying very hard for Twinkel Verma but unfortunately it was Rohit....!!!

During the same week I went to Festember (cult. fest of NIT Trichy) also. No need to mention that Shashi Ranjan was with me. It was horrible to see notices everywhere that the name of a student had been removed from the roll list for a year because he had been caught ragging 1st yrs. I met my friend (civil 3rd yr) also there who has written AIEEE five times ( four times got good rank writing for others and fifth time got bad rank writing for himself).

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One side 'musical night' (during tathva) was there and another side 'DISCO' was there for me
I went to the DISCO having a bottle of vodka. They had presumed it that ' you are on wrong side, you are guilty and you have to accept it.' No clarification, no hearing, nothing
They are predetermined to give me punishment.

But i went on putting my strong points 'the teacher caught my color', 'he asked me a single question', 'he threatened me not to let me get a degree from this institute' , 'his behaviour was not like a teacher' and thanks to some of my strong witness that the next day director called me and told " All charges against you have been withdrawn".

well I think loosing 10 working days for the suspension of three weeks was not too bad. The first week remains longest week of my life, next two weeks a good holiday. Sometimes i wonder for the teacher who might be still waiting for me to come and say sorry to him......!!!
this is a fiction and it has nothing to do with any living or non living thing , if there are some similarities with any incident or person it should be assumed to be a mare coincidence. the next part of story will be released soon.....