Rishi

Statutory Warning :- Its not at all simple to write about Rishi.

Long days back, when Rishi left C-31, after becoming an intern, it did feel always odd for me to see someone else coming out of the green painted room, everytime the doors of that room would open with a creaking sound. Same was on 6th march, 5 pm, I returned from my internship training program, all the way thinking - 'Yeah, Rishi has gone. So what. Some or the other day he had to go.' The feelings weren't that upsurged until I entered D block, turned right, to see the door locked with the warden lock. & the white apron wasn't visible either, which Rishi used to hang to cover the transom. It did take some time to digest the fact.

But as usual, Rishi got to study harder now. & I too have to study. Leave the nostalgic friendship days with memories, & better focus on where to find the vein, or the Psychiatry ward patients drive me crazy everyday.

Referring the orkut testimonial, Rishi - he is the ghostly geek, a sincere bastard, a studious saint.
sincerity is filled in him, rite frm heads 2heels. he is damn studious guy. and he is studious mentally physically spiritually. hellya dats rite
his room is like a den. absolutely air tight, clothes hanging, bed flooded wit books and there u wil find him on d bed wit uncomed hair, dressed like an old man and his laptop, no movies, wallpapers, always playing sad hindi classical songs
and yaa, his collge is no less dan a school boy's bag, loaded wit tonnes on books.
and undoubtedfully no1 can forget his famous mimicry
neway
rishi is great guy, a good friend, always there 2hear ur problems, absolutely straightforward, damn socialising character, softspoken. he can never b hardcore.
Predicted these lines for him back in 2nd year. The guy was actually like that. Changes - he started taking care of his hairs, tried that Mafia hair style of Al Pacino from the movie Godfather, somewhat like the hairstyle of the WWF Razor Ramone.
Always trying hard to reduce weight.

Some great lines from Rishi -

"Remember, some people will always complete us... Remember the blue polythene story... Thanks for completing me friend."
Well, he did complete me. I don't know if I have completed him.

Best line about rishi, from rishi – I win as a habit, & loose for a change.

What a line. Wonderful.. this is written on his old room wall.

Tag line from rishi – arey… tu genius hai… manta hoon yaar tujhe.

Most controversial line from rishi – she wasn’t meant for you. You were not made to be with her.

The most frustating line he wrote for me – ‘this stuffs might look interesting, without wondering whether they are true or not.’ Hmmm. This was the very one liner which ruined the whole article of mine in sushruta. Doesn’t matter. The guy says he fought a lot to get my that article printed, after constant changes & drop outs in the matter of the article. Surely. After this, we conclude to the same funda – ‘sevagram sucks. The lecturers & professors here suck even more. Only one thing rocks here – we, the students.’

Rishi’s style. He won’t call someone chutiya in just a casual manner. He will give full stress on the word, saying – ‘chuuuuuuuutiiiyaaaa… chuuutiyaa hai tuuu…’

As if he really is very desperately trying to make the person, to whom he is referring as a chutiya, the meaning of word chutiya, & moreover, as if he has done grading of chutiyas, & he is telling the person, which grade of chutiya that person is.

Another catch up moment with him. Ask him – whats ACP?

Rishi – I will write ACP arnab on your door.

I was just looking at him blankly. Suddenly both of us smiled at each other.

Again rishi – arey nahi. Then you will also write ACP rishi on my door. Shit.

With ‘shit’, comes the way rishi emulates steve – sheikh sir says, steve cleans his room with his broom & keeps saying – shit man! I am gonna fail. Shit man. Shit.

Once upon a time, he used to come shouting at my door calling - "Wiloopt Praani."

& his antics of making his entry into my room, kicking hard my door, playing with the Hit spray, for cockroaches. 

Sit with him. & he will start like, with a twist in his head & brink of smile – "ek baar kya hua ki…"

Best ever way he defended me. That was when Kawalkar rushed into my room saying, not saying, shouting –  "abe… Ankita ki shaadi fix ho gayi…"

I just rose up… wondering what to do now. I was like on the brink of crying again, that Rishi entered, with the very expression of thinking hard – what way can I get this asshole Kawalkar out of my friend Arnab’s room.

& then Rishi strikes – "pata hai, nikita ki bhi shaadi fix ho gayi maine suna…"

& Kawalkar with his mixed expressions face, runs out of my room. & behind him we all are shouting – "Nikita ki bhi shaadi fix ho gayi." & Kawalkar doesn’t look back.

Best comfort that Rishi gives, is by saying nothing. No rude expression on his face. He can never be sarcastic, that’s for sure, though he sometimes tries to be one, but a failure always. So the best way he tries to comfort me, is the way he enters my room, saying nothing, will sit & will start like – "dekh….."

The guy is one year younger to me by age. Surely he doesn’t have more experience than me. Still with his ample amount of knowledge, that he mostly accumulated in a scholar pattern, he goes advising me & counseling me. Well. Half of what he says, gets the very one reaction from my mind – what the hell does he think of himself?

Best reaction that he caught of me, was while we were chatting on facebook, & he refers about her & - why did you press the backspace button? No you did. You were typing something, & then almost nothing.

Same while we were talking in the balcony, & he refers about her again, & - kya hua? Tu achaanak se itna shaant kyon ho jata hai…

& finally, the boss of all incidences with Rishi – the blue polythene bag story…

Polythene bag... last time Rishi asked about my opinion on his incidences, I simply replied - "An unfortunate event." A stuff what Baghel referred to as - HITTING AGAINST THE BOULDER. 

Whatever. 'Completing as a friend'. Maybe... we complete each other as friends. I don't know. I completed Rishi!!! ?????????? God knows. I don't know how I completed him. For me, I needed someone to help me out. Different people helped me in different ways. Rishi also helped. & as per the exam thing. If I passed final year mbbs, then that is because of him. MARK THESE WORDS STRAIGHTLY. 

Well. Presently, am not sure, tomorrow is Holi. & really am in bad need of studying. So properly speaking, not in the real mood of writing, like sometimes am used to, in late nights. I just wanted to atleast start with with one article about the best dude I had here in sevagram.

With that, again going back to how I met him, sevagram bapu kuti ashram, my arm was bandaged, cycle accident before coming to college, & my father gone to some distant shop to buy a cup, am furious with my mom, bugging in bengali, when Rishi's father comes over & starts a conversation in bengali. Getting with what his father described him as, a fresher, I thought must some fair looking spec wearing thing fellow, typical studious bengali guy, but what turned to be was different, Rishi turns out to be some big gorilla like fellow, with moustaches, My God. I went like - 'what a guy. Hardly matters. Fresher. Will surely beat him up someday.' & see what turned out now. 

I hope Rishi remembers the incidence, at the boys dormitory, when he woke up one morning, disoriented about the directions, & hit the wall. I kept shouting, throwing the torch light at him - "udhar deewar hai." But who cares. 

Today. Called him back to know that the guy is unpacking his books. Definitely, don't know about the future results, cause, frankly, I didn't get much of what he kept explaining to me about his future plans. So I don't know much about his prospects. But what I know is - RISHI WILL STUDY HARD, HARDER, HARDEST. May the Lord save the world around him from exploding. 

587. Those were his grand total in final year mbbs. If Rishi ever asked - 'how do you remember that?'

My reply, simple - 'Ankita also got the same total.' Rishi shaking head - 'tera kuch nahi ho sakta.'

What else remarkable things about Rishi - his concept of the creation of thick environment on room for studying. He claimed to have attained that concept from Sherlock Holmes. Bugsy guy would carry the big room coller also into his room.

Rishi would try hard to understand everything, in deep.

Its better for me not to talk about his love interests in college. For me, they were pathetic, even though he may had discovered a nightingale sitting on his shoulders, or something like that. For sometime there was a confusion about the nightingale. Then he got that tag of 'chinka'. Then. Then. Then move on to present times. I told him to burn the card. But sardar left it torn. Then he made some promises with a dream of Mumbai. But again something happened. Then I don't know. Now if a guy keeps on pressing on saying - 'there is nothing.', what can I do.

Hmmmm.... Probably the best lines from Rishi -

THE CONCEPT OF LIFE IS, SOMEDAY WE WILL ATTAIN TOTAL CONTROL OVER IT.

He was telling those holy lines to Rohit, & I was sleeping in my room, after which he came shouting my door - "abe ye aajkal ganja charas lene lagaa hai kya, jab dekho sota rehta hai."

Rishi always told not to write about anything soon, to wait, to see how the story ends.

I will say, its a pathetic ending. We knew how the ending would be, atleast, I knew how the ending would be, still, the truth is, we love to fly, even if we don't have wings.

THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS SIMPLE. THE TRUTH LAYS RIGHT INFRONT OF US ALWAYS. BUT WHAT WE LIKE IS, COMPLICATIONS. WE DON'T LIKE TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH IN A SIMPLE MANNER. WE LIKE TO ADD SPICES TO IT. MAKE IT AS MUCH COMPLICATED AS IT CAN EVER BECOME. THEN STARTS THE FUN. 

Whats life without fun! Huh!!! Sometimes I used to tell Rishi - "thrill, enjoy it. take chances."

Then saw the highway milestone saying - "thrill kills." Indeed it does. 

& then we need someone, to help us rise back again. In my case, it was Rishi. He tried his best to help me out. 

Packing lugages, at Wardha station, Rishi said to me - "I have done some wrong things here."

I replied - "If you do all the things right, you won't have any nice memories to laugh about when you will grow old."

Presently, brutally, its better, if Rishi keeps studying, & myself try to study, as much as I can. Because, I am caught up in a loathsome position, right now.

I will try to end up here. There, ofcourse is a lot more to write bout Rishi. Will keep on writing. 

Just the first article for him.

Dedicated these lines from Lord Tennyson, for Rishi :-

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more.