When I can’t think of anything to blog about it…I have to just look back at my past…I always find some embarrassing story to narrate!
I studied in a college where the crowd was considerably primitive. I have heard that it has vastly improved now…but back when I was a student …all it took a girl to get noticed was to have short hair or wear some western clothes!
Well, I did wear jeans and I also wore my hair extra short. So, thanks to my hairstyle, I was a “noted” girl in my college.
Sadly it wasn’t anything fancy. No guy ever wrote me a poem…or compared me to the moon. What it meant was that…I was well known among the “huDuguru” by which I mean the Mechanical engineering students. Since they had very few girls in their class (2 girls)….they had elevated all the gals in the E&E dept to “mAAL item” status!
In Hindi movies it is Aamir Khan or Akshay Kumar who sings droll songs and teases a girl. But in real life and particularly in my college…most guys who teased me looked like…let me be polite here and say they didn’t look like any bolywood hero…but they did look like some of the comedians!
Anyways, there was a dedicated bunch of hoodlums who concentrated their whistling, rude comments, jeering, tailing, saluting …etc on me.
I somehow found it in me to avoid giving any reaction to their taunts…though my two friends would get pretty mad. My friend, Adlin even threatened to stone a guy if he continued teasing me! But the more I ignored them…the more they tried to break me…
So one fine day…we finish our class…and pass these guys by. One very dark guy goes-
“chaNNagavle…ChaNNagaVle…anta yaako saaytheeya…oLLe sooorpanakee thara avLLe!”
(Loose translation- “why the hell do you think she is pretty? She looks like a she-demon!”)
Most self respecting gals would have choked that dark guy to death or cried their hearts out at this cruel attack to their vanity. But I just couldn’t stop laughing…the way he said “sooorpananki” instead “sHoorpanaki”-I found it hilarious!
When a guy calls you a she-demon and you kind of agree with him-you know you have hit new levels of rock bottom!
After the effect of the powder wanes away and the kajal gets all smudged…I can give any she-demon a run for her money! For those who need further proof check out my pic in “kya style hai”.
Sometimes…after waking up…when I look at my reflection in the mirror…I can still hear that guy go-
“SooooooooorPanakee!!!”
PS: After many years some guy sent me a message in Orkut apologizing for all the pestering they did back in college! But my self-image has been wrecked forever 
Funny how other people nostalgic post reminds us of some incidents we were involved in…. This post reminds me of my school days when I had a bet with a guy asking me to go and talk to a girl….and so I walk up to her and tell her that I like her and she says in a very hindi filmy style “have you seen yourself in the mirror” and I replied “The idea is not to scare myself but to scare you and that’s why I am standing in front of you” she burst out laughing and we ended up being good friends……and I also won the bet…..:D
Your college was full of lunatics and perverts. Was it the reason you chose to join there instead of my college?
- V
hahaha! good one…Sadly the guys who came up to were alien to the concept of sarcasm/humor..
One guy had tried a very filmi line-”your face looks so familiar to me..its as if I have known you from a long time!”
I asked “and you are still not bored?”…and the guy went on to explain to me how I wasn’t boring at all!
What nonsense! Your college was full of them too. The stories Vijay used to tell me!!!