Pushers

Yesterday we had dinner at Ragesh’s house; Minu was doing all the cooking while my better half Anjana was serving mangoes to us. I was busy playing some car racing game at his playstation along with Gireesh who was miserably losing. Ragesh used to take a break from making chapattis and run along to play a game while a totally disgruntled Jojy was scorning at us all the while coz he did not like Video games, playstation and all such things and as far as he is concerned he always states that he is an agricultural person and will pursue that profession in near future. This claim of his till this day, I regard as a cock-and-bull story, highly implausible and he also goes to the extent of watching some dumb karshaka programme on Saturdays and Sundays which annoy us even more. In between Gireesh mentioned about his recent trip, with his sister Greeshma and her husband, the newly wed couple of the block who were honeymooning, and also took Gireesh along with them to Bandhipur forest and some falls nearby. Gireesh was mentioning that they were traveling in a small circular boat called kotta vanchi and the rower took them to the edge of the falls very near to the precipice and blocked the boat with the row and made them have a view of the falls, well at that moment I chuckled and when I looked around I saw Jojy too was smiling that’s when I thought that ‘Pushing’s are a style of NSSians’. So this is all about some famous pushing’s (boasting or rather speaking of ones accomplishments in superlatives) that have been scripted and etched into our memories. So ladies and gentlemen kindly meet the biggest pushers who have been an integral part of our college ta da ta da………..

“Oru kayil Cigarum matte kaayil Benzinte streeingum aaayi njan oootyiude roadil poovayirunnu” well there are no prizes for the people who have guessed correct ,as to who made this up. I won’t name him and if the person who said this happens to read my posts please don’t take it in a bad sense coz I must say that you have the greatest imagination and of course you were a great entertainer. Well that’s not all he was the greatest conjurer of all time with tales such as research activity of VSSC going on in his shed, of him saving a kid while he was driving his twin suspension (it’s the engine that’s suspended) bike, of his childhood friend sobhana (film actress), of his V- shaped body and so on, these are some of the classic example which I am sure will be a Herculean task to forget.

Then we have our ever green hero the ubiquitous Unni who is arguably one of the greatest storytellers of all times. After a series of fisticuffs, strikes and other issues plaguing the campus due to the ongoing election campaign pressure, we were trying to rope in on votes of the first year students, now who else would be a better candidate than Unni to talk and bring in a major number of first year students with his amazing capability of storytelling. Just visualize this scenario, first hostel, room number 45; we have at least 20 prominent first year students sitting and listening to campaign strategies, and then we have unni sitting on the desk in a tantric pose and a wills on his lips, he was listing out the things to do with his usual diplomatic style when one guy from the crowd asked what if someone tries to indulge in fights with them if they campaign for us in their hostel?, I though that the kid is smart and it was a good question! To this the unfazed unni replied “agane vellathum undayal onnum nookenda thatti kalanjere, atha ente reethi! Than ivide poothi ye tha alle, ivide choodichal maathi kaaryam ellam avar paranjoolum”
Well I was really amused and taken aback ,coz when I thought of him as a terminator and all, but I kept my amusement to myself and we all piped in and said “ athe athe atha athinte reethi”. Now Unni is also famous for his other stories like his great grandfather was the only person in Kerala, back in those pre independence days who had a car apart from the erstwhile Cochin maharaja. He also mentioned that when his great grandfather used to smoke cigarettes (it seems that cigarettes was not known to the locals at that time!) ,people mainly the servants and other lesser privileged would wait in nearby bushes, and trees hiding. As soon as his great grandfather was done with the cigarette, he would throw it away. Then at this very moment all these people would jump to have a puff of that cigarette. He is also stated to have said stories of him playing tennis with Sheikhs in the Arabian Desert, also going desert hunting on camel top and enjoying drinks with Lebanese waitress at his uncle’s bar in Dubai. Well apart from all this there is a famous dialogue by him which is something like this “hoooo ithu entha ithu? Puttu kuutiyo!!!!!!” Well if you want an insight into this kindly contact him.

We have had vivek saying that his great grandfather used to roam around on horsebacks and used to chop off robbers head as he was a big zamindar.

Then we have Chimproo who is reported to have got a praise from the film actress Abhi Rami, well the story is somewhat like this, after a workout at the gym chimproo was showing off his muscles when the actress walked up to him and told him “ ooooo ragesh waaaaat a baaady!!!!” (He said this in Trivandrum slang).

Then we have Kozhi mentioning that the same actress is his classmates and she does everything only after consulting him. The same kozhi also used to say that his usual past time is to study codes for windows operating system and also that he is developing some thing in multitasking, threads in windows, kernel and what not…… well i must admit that he is doing something similar in his present company although not for Microsoft but some firm in the US.

Lijith was also no exception, once while we were having a walk we happened to see a plane flying with its hazard lights on. Upon seeing this Lijith retorted that it is a satellite and when we ridiculed him he said that it was told to him by Paaputy sir his physics lecturer!!!!

Sabarish was no exception with stories of his school days, high school days, kinder garden days, nursery days and during all these stories he is the protagonist and the hero with lots and lots of girls all who love him and he was always in a fix as what to do.

Then we have push pai whose pushing’s are famous all throughout the campus. So these are some of the great Pushers whom I can recollect at this moment. So let’s keep the pushing’s alive by honoring the pushers and until the next post its cheers to all of you……