By Tushar Shekhar
Out of every five people that passes you on road, three are engineers, out of these three, two are unemployed and one who is employed is either employed in Bank/Mfi/Nbfc or I mean any other field than engineering. But in spite of these if you will ask an engineer what he has enjoyed most till now, he will say engineering life. The story narrates about Pankaj Kumar, a native of a small village in singrauli town of Madhya Pradesh, he was the only one from his village who got a chance to complete diploma from govt polytechnic in Jabalpur, after that he moved to Bhopal for taking admission by lateral entry in LNCT college. The college in those days had two hostels namely ratanpur and tripuri. Since ratanpur was a hostel with accommodation of 186 students and tripuri has only 70 beds, he thought “Chhota Pariwar will be sukhi pariwar” and took a room in tripuri, Since it was the very first day, many boys were coming with their guardians so he greeted one guardian and came to know that he was not a guardian but a student himself, the next day he dressed up well and went to classroom with perfumes all around where he came to know that civil mechanical and electrical branches have no girls, in the evening when he came to hostel, he came to know that his room mate is Shyam Prakash Tomar, a student of CSE branch belonging from Gwalior, as night passed on tomar started talking to a girl, and the talk went on till 1:00 AM in night, to ignore these talks and divert his mind Pankaj downloaded some shah rukh khan videos and with blanket on started watching it. The next day he went to mall for buying some clothes and while returning noticed that the city is full of engineering colleges at every hook and corner, again night carried by and tomar started talking to same girl, Pankaj asked his room mate, “O bhai hame v number dila”,
and got a reply “tere bas ki nahi hai, tum mechanical walo se na ho payega”. Now as time passed on Pankaj also started believing that getting a gf is not for core branch, and heared his branch mates telling one day “Apne ko chahiye bhi nahi”, he started enjoying core branch gossips, developed interest in trump cards, commenting on others, and breaking college rules, meanwhile college result announced and he got 3 backs out of five subject and his room mate got 80%. Shyam came to Pankaj and told that his gf alisha wants to talk to him, he picked the phone and she said Pankaj don’t be sad, next sem you will get good marks, mechanical students are very brave you will overcome these result soon, Pankaj started getting confidence and thought that he will clear paper in next sem and started getting involved in on college and off college fights till next sem when he got two more backs, with a warning letter that if any more back comes he will be terminated, now he changed his circle left the hostel and shifted with three intelligent boys, they taught him and till fourth sem his all paper were cleared, fifth sem was a time when students started preparing for gate and cat exam, his all three room mates enrolled for made easy coaching for gate preparation, since Pankaj don’t have interest in engg subjects, he went for TIME coaching of cat, There he found beautiful girls all around in coaching and fall in love with one, she loved going to pub so the boy started developing interest in wine beer and cigarette, his room mates warned him that passing semester is not only your priority, you have to get job also and clear CAT paper, and he naming his gf told them “Reshu” hai to sab sambhaw h. Finally placement season started and a bunch of company started coming for campus selection, his gf reshu who was from oriental college got selected in TCS while this man was rejected by almost every company, when he became sad reshu told him that lets go to pub, something else job has been made for you, then came CAT paper and she got 41 out of 66 correct while he got 13 correct, that day pankaj mind got open, after spending almost 60,000 on gf and wasting 1.5 years of his life with her he found that she was reading while enjoying, and he was doing everything except studying, he had only one semester left to prove himself as cat was over for him and his engineering result was just crossing first division also the campus placement season of college was almost over. He started going to nearby cities and colleges for off campus jobs and as time passed by last sem also got over. Now was the time to depart, everyone was packing their bags for different destination, Pankaj’s maximum colleagues and room mates were from Bihar so they shared the same train till Jabalpur, from where their routes were different, When the train was getting announced his all three room mates who were from bihar came to him and said “touch me rehna aur job apply krte rehna”, if something good happens don’t hesitate to inform us. Pankaj hugged them and named a very famous mechatronics company, and said agle mahine joining hai meri esme, they were stunned, Pankaj told them you have seen me going to different places in search of job, I had got this opportunity two months ago at medi caps college indore, listening this his room mates showed different type of expression on their face and started running over pankaj and he started running on platform saying “Bhai Maaf Kar de Dubara Aisa Nahi Karunga”.
By Tushar Shekhar
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