The year 2000 was very eventful in many aspects----I topped my undergraduate exams with 57% marks....got myself admitted for my masters in Calcutta University...and lastly Shubho left me.............
It was 2nd february if I am not mistaken---Shubho's birthday.I had ransacked almost every music store to buy a collector's item for him..after a lot of rejections I finally settled with Suchitra Mitra andAmjad Ali Khan's Gems from Tagore...I could see him right from the college entrance gate..he was in a check blue shirt and faded blue denim,looking erudite as always! As i ran upto him he came and embraced me with a peck on my cheeks..he was excited as he unwrapped the gift and shouted in joy....Before I could begin my next sentence,he yelled-''kaustav,i'm so happy today!! I have something to share with you,only you''I kind of blushed and thought probably he would bend like an Elizabethan lover and say,''accept me dear''...but what followed was something which altered my life altogether....
he was in love with a girl.....and never before had he ever told me that he was bisexual! I knew the girl,infact we all knew her..she was Oindrilla,an iuncumbent from Auxillium Convent who had quite successfully lured him with her intellectual pursuits....all that I didn't have---Kafka,Freud,Camus(remember my previous blog?)
Anyways,I had made a complete mess of myself on that day with my sentimentalism,and realised how futile one's whims and fancies were! My castles were already built not in the air though,but they collapsed with one damn declaration....I needed a lap to hide myself and Priyanka was there as if echoing the lines...''Jibono Moroner Seemana Charaye,Bondhu Hey Amar Royecho Dnaraye ''.....i spent the entire evening at GD-282,salt lake reddening my eyes....
Shubho left Kolkata...after failing his exams....don't know what happened to his new love story!I was a stoic guy who only seem to know the bus route to Calcutta University....walking down Bidhan Sarani,Vivekananda Road to Maniktala.....
It was 2nd february if I am not mistaken---Shubho's birthday.I had ransacked almost every music store to buy a collector's item for him..after a lot of rejections I finally settled with Suchitra Mitra andAmjad Ali Khan's Gems from Tagore...I could see him right from the college entrance gate..he was in a check blue shirt and faded blue denim,looking erudite as always! As i ran upto him he came and embraced me with a peck on my cheeks..he was excited as he unwrapped the gift and shouted in joy....Before I could begin my next sentence,he yelled-''kaustav,i'm so happy today!! I have something to share with you,only you''I kind of blushed and thought probably he would bend like an Elizabethan lover and say,''accept me dear''...but what followed was something which altered my life altogether....
he was in love with a girl.....and never before had he ever told me that he was bisexual! I knew the girl,infact we all knew her..she was Oindrilla,an iuncumbent from Auxillium Convent who had quite successfully lured him with her intellectual pursuits....all that I didn't have---Kafka,Freud,Camus(remember my previous blog?)
Anyways,I had made a complete mess of myself on that day with my sentimentalism,and realised how futile one's whims and fancies were! My castles were already built not in the air though,but they collapsed with one damn declaration....I needed a lap to hide myself and Priyanka was there as if echoing the lines...''Jibono Moroner Seemana Charaye,Bondhu Hey Amar Royecho Dnaraye ''.....i spent the entire evening at GD-282,salt lake reddening my eyes....
Shubho left Kolkata...after failing his exams....don't know what happened to his new love story!I was a stoic guy who only seem to know the bus route to Calcutta University....walking down Bidhan Sarani,Vivekananda Road to Maniktala.....
