Condonation

“Ente Moone Politicsil Bhayangaraamayiite involved aaano teacher atho avan adi pidi gusthi aaano?” These were the words that my parents asked my group tutor and I was sitting blushing next to them head bowed down and fully ashamed of what I had done. The teacher retorted back “ennikyum atha manasilavathe Raghu ithilum onnum illya ennitum avan attendance shortage aanu, Entha ivan cheyuune?”
What was I doing or rather what were we doing???????? Condonation!!!! That’s what we all earned, opps sorry I usually refer to us all as we and who are the ‘we’? Let’s be clear on this “we”, the “we” here refers to a group of individuals who despite of their diverse backgrounds came together under a single blanket of friendship and stayed put through the many thick and thin of college life. If I start to name them then it would be a big bore as you would be spending half your time going through the list. So instead of that what I will do is just introduce each character as the NSS kathakal unfolds in each of my posts.
So why this Condonation just when we started our course? Lack of insight, irresponsible, idiots well whatever we just didn’t care and we were so hell bent on enjoying that we lost track of the reality that we would have to confront pretty soon!
So leaving the reality behind lets come back to those days where we were in a different world altogether. After the initial first year where we discovered news ways of enjoying and finally ended up in a big mess, I still remember the day when our first year results were out, a very few (well if my memory is correct 17 from electrical and almost the same numbers in others disciplines) had managed to pass in all their subject and the others among us were quite content with their supplies and were comparing on who had more supplies, chanted “ hum honge kaamiyaab , hum hoonge kaaamiyaab ek din” all along the main entrance. Hmmmm a false sense of elevation. The story was no different the other semesters also. So while we were battling this situation we also managed to get into many notorious incidents (which again I will make a different post) which eventually led to a point where in all our tutors lost their patience and this compounded with the condonation that we all had the tutors took the decision onto their hands and decided to call-in our parents.
So the D-day arrived where the college had witnessed the largest gathering of Parents from a single batch and boy it was a sight. A big line of cars parked in an around the main college gate. It is obvious that most of them were from Royal Mechs department then electrical the rest trailed behind these two departments. My parents had also come.
During the meeting our tutor’s blabbered a lot of not so good stuff about us all to our parents. Some of the incidents during this rendezvous which might seem funny are worth mentioning; again the credibility of these incidents can be verified at any point of time and don’t think that I made up these.
Jim our dear ‘ana’ the elephant was seen trotting behind his mother like a tamed elephant (that’s a very different Jim, coz he at 5’10 and weighing almost a quintal was a very fearsome character; p.s.: to those who don’t know him he is quite a fearsome person but in actual he’s just ana ) but right now he was waltzing behind his mother like a two year old who was being led to school for the first time. After all the melodious tunes that our tutor had sung into his mothers ears he was getting more tamed by the minute, finally when aunty was going back home walking along the second floor corridor with our ana behind her, she politely asked “ moone ithu etramathe nelyaaa” .
To which Jim said “ithu second floor aanu mummy, entha mummy choodiche”, and she snapped back “alla moone ividinnu chaadiyal chaavooo”. Well any one can guess the amount of despair that both were in.
Gireesh was seen entering smiling along with his father and was seen leaving smiling and well his smiling attitude had one funny twist. We all know that mocha’s father is a very straight forward person the only mistake from his part was his son, (da mocha no hard feelings) and it is no surprise that he was visibly upset with his son having a condonation along with back papers.

So we all kept a good distance from his father fearing the worst, but our ever smiling Gireesh decided that nothing was wrong in meeting his friend’s father despite warnings from mocha himself. So when Gireesh met mochas father he smiled and introduced himself as “Hello Uncle Njan Gireesh shajeaninte classmate aanu”, he was smiling his best. To this Uncle replied “Gireeshine supply undo” the same smiling Gireesh relied back with all his enthusiasm “undu Uncle first year naal aaanum” without even losing that smile on his face. Now to this his father replied “hmmm thanikyo okke engane chirrkyan thonnunu ithreyam supply vechu”. Like a flash that smile vanished and Gireesh wondered whether he would be able to smile again ever (well actually he smiles more now, he is here in Bangalore working as a project engineer in
Wipro, also that smile broadens at the sight of all gals).

The guys in mech had a very tough time as their parents really bore the brunt coz we all did things that was against the very fundamentals. As a result of this meeting our dear Achu moon (Vava, ashok, Mandan call him whatever you like) had to discontinue his semester and join in a semester that he had already taken. After this all thought that we would change and become subdued well they were wrong this did not clip our wings, till the final year we were pretty much the same enjoying each and every moment in that college “aaaaaaaaa mala mootile college”, believe me even though most of us had to face a bit of difficulties coz we did things that we were not supposed to do while studying in a professional college we managed to come out of our hardships and all of us are doing good and well settled.
Now in order for our fourth sem results to be published it was necessary that all the condonation dues had been paid and send to the university. I had paid the amount due and given the challan to mocha who said “onnum paedikenda ellam njan eetu” and that idiot lost my challan and also forgot to inform me (there was a lot of challan it was a bulk application from all of us) as we had all gone home for study holiday. When I came back and found that my dues were still pending I was visibly upset since I was the only person remaining to send that form. I didn’t know what to do as the results would not be released from the university, so I came back to my room to see my dear friend Madhu lying in his bed and smoking as usual. I told him of my situation and he started to scold me saying “ninakku oru ullupum illya alle rascal, chommadhalabodham venam, enne kaandu paddikyo njam ellam aayichu athu koondu njan ippol safe annu”. I felt dejected, even Madhu had done his part that is “eee kothara adakkam condonation dues proper aayi cheythallo eeshwara”. So I dragged myself to college office to sort this out with help from administration. When I asked the concerned person he told me to fill in forms pay special fees and get a form signed from the principal and with all this I had to go to university and do the rest there. While I was filling in the form carefully (this form must be filled without any mistakes and there must be no scratches in short it should be error free) the person from office asked me “thannikyo ithu ara aanu ennu arriyamo” and he showed me a form. Upon seeing that my eyes lit up like a 1000 W bulb, he then said “ thanteyum eee alludeyam form maathrame eee coolegil niinu poovan ullu, igane aaano oru form fill cheyyya, ithil fuul vettum kutthum aaanu, oru informationum illya, thaanikyo aaariyoo eee MADHU .T.C ara ennu.”

The next day me and Madhu got up early in the morning and took a bus from olavakkode to university to clear our condonation dues. I was all smiling and Madhu was sleeping next to me with a small frown on his face. We were off too get our fourth semester results with high expectations.