Bikash Choudhury
After graduation passing out ceremony enthusiasm and
excitement was over from the recesses of mind; it hunted all our friends then,
what next? Before, taking up post graduation studies; we decided to form a self
help group for personality development in the grab of a debating society at
Human Life Centre in Bhubaneswar .
We would meet in the after noon on
Sundays to discuss about National and International affairs and also about
socio-economic issues. The debates were as passionate as it was electrifying
some times with inputs from members from diverse fields stormed the venue of
our meeting and kept us waiting for this confabulation next week end. With word
of mouth of publicity, our group membership grew in leaps and bounds in
following months and years. A couple of beauty with brains also joined our
group which was by then aptly named ‘Quality Circle’. Some of our
adventurous and dynamic members planed to organize a Quiz Competition in the
foot steps of infamous Quiz Master Mr. Sidhartha Basu who much later
conceptualized and broadcasted “Kon Banega Karod Pati”. Soon our
group was able to rope in “Sun Times” the popular English news
paper to sponsor the event and rest became history as this event caught the
imagination of young students of Bhubaneswar
city and also to an extent entire State of Orissa ,
as it was called then. Tides always followed by a lull; that did not escape our
group as many of us could not keep up the tempo and temperament of organizing a
State level event for long; though, some time later we were able to publish a
magazine “Quality Reporter”. As luck would have it cupid struck
our secretary and he could not resist the temptation of entering into matrimony
at a very tender age; which was a grand spoiler for our group Quality Circle.
If that was not bad enough, I was also taken in by a young and erudite member
of our group from the opposite sex and able to drop a hint here and a glance
there, to keep it discreet from the public eye. It is often said ‘isq and
muska chupa ne se nehi chuupta’. Little later it occurred to some of our
members that I am up to some thing in the sly; however, unfortunately by the
time my efforts were bearing fruits at the other end; my mind was seized up
with the concerns of career and future economic stability and prevented me from
responding to a green field opportunity. This was not only one encounter that I
lost; though it was the most memorable one to remember and even joyfully recall
over a cup of cappuccino among friends and family. The other two were also
equally interesting events in life of a man when he was ‘desired’—a lovely
feeling to savor with Kebabs and a green dip. I was then working in Chennai
with a educational consulting firm as its marketing manager and I was very
impressed with the work of a young, dynamic and hard working instructor little
less than half of my age from opposite sex; and, it is always hard for me to
keep off my admiration for sterling qualities of this young girl in her early
twenties. I later gifted her book ‘Algorithm of Enterprise’ in
appreciation of her good work; which, she took it otherwise literally and send
me a sms on a rainy day to enjoy nature with her. Unfortunately, my wife first
saw that message and shown it to me for clarification; where none was needed or
offered. But, even a secret desire or a fling if any for an adventure was
terminated on that rainy morning in its bud. One more sms followed the next day
“one must have some body to live and die for” which I responded with a
curt message to terminate any scent of liaison like this “Mathematicians
should better remain Mathematicians than turning a poet”. The message got
across appropriately and she asked for a transfer to another location soon
after bringing curtains to the second prospective liaison. And, third one was a
chance encounter with a beautiful and wealthy architect in her office at
Chennai and it could be termed as ‘love at first sight’. Those who have
experienced could understand the feeling of such an encounter between two
adults from opposite sex; none the less the feeling was great that would take
your body, mind and soul in a trance; but, the situations in life remain
unpredictable and at times melancholy. Again, unfortunately in a week’s time of
such a sweet encounter; I had to take a flight back to Bhubaneswar
for good to respond to an emergency of a sad and accidental demise in the
family inking a final blow to love-ly encounters.
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