He knew that I knew that he didn’t :)

I met Raj because of Saumya. A few days before Saumya left the campus we went on a roller coaster night trip that took us to Dhaba, an obscure tea shop at Rawatpur (A Kanpur suburb) Station serving excellent tea in Laloo’s kulhads and numerous alleys in search of a special Pan shop (which we never found) before we ended up at Ganga Ghat thinking it was Massacre Ghat (which is also a ghat of the Ganges). We returned to campus at around 6 am. Driving full speed on Grand Trunk in the morning has a charm of its own.

Anyway, Saumya left the campus. One day, after a brief Google talk with him, I left for library and on my way I met Raj.

Me: Hi Raj! How are you doing.
Raj: (caught unawares) Uh-oh! I am fine. How are you?
Me: I am fine too. Going to library.
Raj: I am just returning from my lab. So what’s up these days.
Me: Nothing much since Saumya left. In fact I was just chatting with him. So what’s up at your end?
Raj: Same old. So Saumya is fine?
Me: Yeah, he is fine.
Raj: Good, good. So, I will catch up with you later.
Me: Sure. See you around.
Raj: Yeah. Bye
Me: Bye.

He knew that I knew that he didn’t recognize me and didn’t have an inkling of who I was. But he engaged in conversation anyway. It’s funny how such things happen and how accommodating people can be just so that the others are at ease and they themselves are at ease too.

Anyway, this is the 100th post on this blog which derives from several blogs I created and destroyed ever since I began blogging in August 2005. That way, my blogging habit is now three years old. The readership at my blogs has been minimal as almost everything else has been in the past three years. Not that it hasn’t been good. It’s been great but we know the human mind – nothing is enough!

Adios,
Onion