Magnificent Obsessions

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My list of queer IIT KGP citizenry:

1. 'B' couldn't sleep for one whole month in the night time because he said: 'As soon as I hit the bed and try to fall asleep, this thought used to come to me: "It will be daylight by the time I get up";' he had to be on heavy tranquillizers

2. 'R' could never go to matinee cinema shows because: "I will miss the dusk, and it is dark by the time I come out"

3. 'gps' can't sleep in a house that has a single guava fruit in it.

4. 'Rk' can sleep soundly during the course of a roaring thunderstorm with fork, ball and sheet lightnings; but gets up and jumps out of bed when a mouse squeaks, during the course of the thunder storm

5. 'J' could never face a teacher in his class room but had to look out the window, because he can't 'see him' and 'hear him' at the same time

6. 'L' can never be a 'passenger' on a push-bike, scooter, mobike or a car; he has got to be in the driver seat. He makes unwilling exceptions in boats, trains and aircraft

7. 'SDM' would lock his room, pull the huge Godrej lock 3 times up and down, walk till the collapsible gate, return to his room to check the lock at least once without exception; even when I was ecsorting and locking his room; because he was lost in thought if alone or in talk if I was with him

8. 'DB' never could hold on to the frame of his rickshaw; he would rather take a tumble in corners, breaking his collar bone once, because one hand was busy smoking and the other holding his bag in his lap

9. 'DKA' has to clear his throat before the start and stop of every sentence in conversation

10. 'S' would always laugh 'hey..hey...hey' before every joke he narrates

11. 'K' needed an RS to launch him on his scooter from his Qrs and another one to 'receive' him in the stand and park it; he always had at least two RSes

12. 'SB', the professional typist, would at last come into his chamber, start typing one sentence, and invariably has to leave for his adjacent Qrs to pick up his nossyi (snuff) box

13. 'P' would park his push-bike right across 4 parked bikes at right angles; he says it is his habit; invariably his cycle would be on the ground when he returns

This list is typical but not exhaustive, by no means

IIT KGP was (maybe still is) a mini-madhouse ============================================================