The Resplendent Life And Times of GAYtam Dambekodi - I

It was just another dog day morning, and one of my first days of college. I was more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. This dude comes upto me from nowhere, and says, "Hey, Vinita, right? I'm Gautam. Deeksha's friend".

That, ladies and gentlemen, was where it all started. Little did I know, that this prosaic character would play such a paramount part in setting the tone for the class. He's one looker, I must say. He is distinguised by his short wiry hair (on which he spends 200 rupees per hair cut), tall lanky adidas donned figure, and his oh-so-sweet-better-than-Asha-Bhonsle's high pitched voice.

Distinguished by his strikingly impressive goatee in the earliest days of college, the dude had many females dancing to his tunes, our Miss Toad being one of them. Yours truly was one of the luckiest souls alive to see the scratch marks toad gave him. It was a moment of beatitude and exalted happiness for unimaginative souls like us, to have witnessed a consecrated event like that. Ah well, enough said about this.

In a class where nerdiness is rampant, he has the potential to steal everyone else's thunder and be termed as the 'nerdiest nerd' of the lot. And let me tell you, dear gyor*, that much coveted title didn't come for free. Only a select few of us privileged enough to be around him know how hard he actually worked towards attaining it.

He took an almost religious incubus upon himself so as to always be seen with one text book or the other. Whenever you attempt to make a social interaction with him, he's only too ready to comply, provided you discuss your marks and/or your study schedule. Not to say he enlightens us on the exigent topics like test dates, portions and online resources.

And when people as jaded as me fail to take such ethereal hints and refined connotations, he actually has the audacity to tell it downright to our faces, that he likes being called a nerd. You heard me, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, you heard me right. I was perplexed at first, but after a esoteric theory about how and why people like being called nerds, I have to say, I was left tongue-tied. That, dear gyor* is the effect this aberrant person has on you.

Oh, how I would like to be the sacrosanct soul to chronicle his atypical life and the unconventional events in it. But though it is extremely compelling to chronicle his enchanted life, I fear it cannot be done all at one go. So lets have a brief cessation here, but I promise I'll come back with more later.

We shall discuss his romantic life and intrepid doings and the GAY references in the next post. So long for now.

* Gentle Yet Omnipotent Reader


Author's Note:
I have gone unashamedly overboard as far as language goes, and also exaggerated slightly. For example, the Toad part was not what it sounded like. They were playing and she hit him. I exaggerated partly because I wanted this to be engrossing, and mostly because it was great fun.
Clarification: Before you condemn me, let me say, I'm not judging, criticizing, abhorring or anything like that. I'm simply describing him as the person that he is. Well, what can I say, it is much easier to be critical than to be correct.