COLORS OF LIFE-6. LOVE IS BLIND
This also relates to MDSIC and my final year of Intermediate
commerce. Bade Bhai Saheb, as you all know was my class and roommate. I think I
have told you that though he was two
years senior to me but we were in the same class from 6th class
onwards not because he was anyway less of a good student but because I took the
advantage of skipping 5th
class to be with him in the same school.
Now let me come to the subject. Ravindra and we lived in the
same neighborhood. He was the brother –in law of our Commerce Teacher to whom
his elder sister was married. As always happens a teacher can teach anybody on
earth but when it comes to teaching his ‘saala’, it is an impossible job mainly
because he cannot twist the ears of his wife’s younger brother. So very often
he would send him to our place for help and since he was one year junior to us
we were happy to help because it gave us some sadistic pleasure. He was a below
average student and was pursuing his Intermediate Arts.
Final exams were on and he came to us for advice how best to
secure good marks in Essay writing. We told him there were good chances of
pleasing the examiner if the essay started with some quotation in English by a
great person. We gave him some examples as which quotation could be used for
what subject and so on.
He took our advice for good. Next day he came to our room
and was looking in best of spirits. We asked him how he did in his Essay. He
very joyfully announced that he started essay with a very popular quote. And
what it was, we asked. “Love is blind” was his reply. And whose quote is it, we
asked. “Pandit Nehru”. And what was
subject of the Essay, we asked. “Bharat Me Badhati Jansankhya Ki Samasya”
(Problem of increasing population in India).
We laughed to our hearts’ content. Don’t you think he had
given the best quote?