SANTHA

“ Sanji, mollu, mocha, shantha, chimproo, valli, , sheik P**** mutti khan, kanjan, ganjan, tauba, soda, pashu, aana, despu, don jabi, Mandan , johar madan, theetam thooti, karikalam kothesh, son of chandran& shekaran a.k.a maadu, paille, maapi, Julie, KK, China, Matta, Vava, amminni, harami, unda, gaaaru, SP, kunju, pookalam, jetti, aaandy, paandy, KC, mechan, mookan, cleo, ulatha, kozhi, kaapi, kochapi, flooji, solly, SK, kaaatu, sreekuty, pug, patti, PCP, KamD, Kunju, moopan,chaps,peru………..” the list goes one. Well any guesses to who these bizarre sounding creatures are? They are none other than the species of NSS College who made life merrier and worth cherishing. Who named these guys? And how these came into being? well, some of them are highly classified and any attempt to divulge more details on certain names will ultimately end up as a disaster for me, I might be shot at, and even if I survived by some sheer luck, then I will be shot again, so I wont disclose the entire names but yes, some are worth mentioning, including my nick name. Sigh! I guess it’s high time that I shared the secret; I have been carrying the pain and agony of that name for more than four years. Among the many blunders that I have committed, I guess that this one is arguably the worst. I should have never let my friend pookalam, read that letter, which I gave to him on that ill fated day. So with this let me introduce to you all ‘Shantha’.

Well, yes, that’s my nick name (the most prominent one). That name still sends a chill down my spine. What an ugly name! How did I get it? To cut a big story in short, there was a home nurse in my house to look after my aging grandmother, her name was shanthi, and well, yes, it happened that I got a letter in Malayalam, from her which was, well I did rather put it this way, it was a bit high on language, and its verses were quite difficult for me to fully comprehend. So in good faith, I took help of my dear friend pookalam, which turned out to be a disaster. The news traveled, and it happened to reach Mr. Unni’s and Sodas, ears. That was beginning of the end, I did rather say, that, because from then onwards, for a long time, I was at the receiving end. These two morons, made a totally fabricated story, and changed the name from shanthi, to shanthamma, and highly publicized that letter, they made up a different letter and posted it on the hostel notice board. Well that was the last straw. I became ‘Shantha’. Well, it’s almost four years since we are out from college, but that name still ricochets’ in my mind and might be through the corridors of hostel along with all the other names mentioned above. It is said that when you share things, you feel light, but I still feel awkward. Its not only me who has had trouble with the name, but people who call me also have encountered some humorous incidents, like for example, Harikrishan from A batch , was touring malampuzha dam along with the entire class, and all were pedal boating across the placid waters in the hot afternoon sun. He did not go boating ,as he along with a few others which includes me, had visited the place a couple of days ago, so when others from his class, especially the girls insisted that he take a boat ride, he retorted back by saying
“Illya njan illya, kazhinja aayecha njanum shanteyum ivide boatinginu vaanatha”.
Well can you imagine, what must have been the girls reaction, well first of all that name is very awkward, and besides that the next question was, who is shantha?( as most of the girls were not aware of that, at least that’s what I presume). Hari faced a tough time that day. So that’s my most prominent name.

Then lets see where else do I have the liberty to divulge more details, without treading on troubled waters, hmmmm aha got it, well I know that if he reads this, he will blast me. He is quite a witty chap, quick on humour, in fact he has a pleasant sense of humour, never sarcastic and neither does he give any scathing remarks, the stud of civil and the curator(The custodian of a collection) of NSS , ladies and gentlemen let me present to you ‘SANJI’ aka Vidyanath Vinay V (?). Once someone asked him what the last V stands for and he, just said ‘athu chummadha” so that's why I have the question mark. Well how he became ‘sanji’…… lets just say by pointing out one of the incident that happened way back, there was a power cut at hostel, and it was not the normal load shedding, so eventually soda found out that one of the transformer was missing. Later it was found that the transformer was lying in the ‘sanji’. Those who are smiling after reading this will surely understand, the others well I am sorry I can’t put forward any more details. On a finishing note, rumours are out that the tallest building in the world the ‘Burj Dubai’ is about make a disappearing act, well the reason, Sanji is roaming around there. God save Burj Dubai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now let me come to my favourite guy, any guesses, well yes that’s Unnikutan. I can go around telling things about him till the end of time. But for now lets stick to his names, the most popular being Unnikuttan, but as you know he too has a lot of names one amongst them is the ‘Sheikh al P****an mutti khan’ coined by shabbu. Details are highly classified so sorry, and the saddest part is all his nick names are highly classified so I will have to deviate from him, and he has also earned a lot more names recently in Dubai, like britolli unni etc…

‘Eda randum peerum ore alla’ that’s what shabbu said when we asked who chandran and shekaran were from his name sabarish chandrashekaran. So he is the son of chandran and shekaran. It also happens that once he sets off from his home, on his scooter to college, it’s similar to a cattle being let off to graze, so he is our ‘maadu’. He stops only to eat and talk. Well yes he had invented a quadruple omelet. While we were have single and double omelet at ikkas hotel, he suddenly ordered ikka to gve him a quadruple omelet, to which ikka said ‘moone naalu moota, vere vere tharaam athu maathiyoo’. He also ordered a milk shake from a milk shake joint at changanachery, while we were visiting unnikuttans home, for which the shake owner latter made a separate menu called supreme milkshake, that was because our dear shabbu custom made a shake for himself. Such is the capability of our dear friend.

Kanjan, well that’s anybodies guess, tries to remain aloof, quiet surrounded by a halo, not because of enlightenment but due to smokes emancipating form his cigarette. So he is called Kanjan. Alternatively we have ganjan, which is Nirmal, called so because of his looks which have a Stallone and a bit of a druggy kind of eye. He is also called tauba , because he has a very bold and masculine voice , filled with high bass with which he tried to sing a very melodious song called ‘tauba tumhare ye ishare’, and yes it was an utter disaster.



Then we have the widely known and esteemed Kozhi, why is he known by that name, well even I don’t know that, what I have deduced is that, he jumps around like that fowl, well he is also termed as a Godzilla, any guesses for that kozhi. I guess he too might have forgotten that name.

Then we have Chimproo, what does that mean, hmmmm sample this, the face of a chimpanzee and the lips of the old West Indian pace bowler Curtly Ambrose. Now try and mix it together and think of Ragesh R. well I guess now you might have figured out the name Chimproose. We used to send his ‘chundu’ to milli stores from hostel to buy cigarettes.
Then I can go on rattling out the names especially that of gireesh, dinesh, thotti, KK but I do have a factor called fear, and I fear for my life and also it will eventually get on the nerves of people like you who have spent some time reading this, so I did rather not go on babbling like a two bit squeezer. So I end this post right here, I am waiting for some very nice comments, hey guys , if in case you do post some comments, please be nice to your old pal ‘SANTHA’