On your demand and my desire, Mittali, this
one is for you.
Now that you have left for your MBA, I open my MS Word with
moist eyes and begin to write a little bit that I can for you. The very first
moment, I find myself unable to think. The next moment, I do not get words and in
the third second, I fail to frame sentences. Collision of thoughts fills my mind
and it gallops into umpteen magnificent memories which I owe to you and only
you.
It is not very often that one comes across a person like
you.
A merry-go-lucky by nature, you have the ability to
transform a dull environment lively. Doing the last moment revisions in the last compartment
of college library was worth the joy where we would laugh more and study less. Eating
rajma-chawal in our perennially dark college canteen was worth the time. Standing
by my side for continuous 120 minutes, under hot and humid GPO building at
Kashmere gate, only to let me post my envelope was worth our friendship. Encouraging
me all through my campus interview failures was worth the support. Facing
Sunila together was worth the courage!
You are gifted with an uncanny ability to make others
smile. It has
been five continuous years and you did never forget and never failed to wish me,
first amongst all, on my birthdays, at exactly twelve.
You have always been a good companion for all my ‘gtalks’,
my gossips, and my sad stories.
I sometimes wonder how do you correctly guess all the
times what I feel at the moment even when I write a simple ‘yaar!’ in my
messages. You were never sarcastic and always answered my queries even at odd
times of the day! You scolded me like a sister, and advised me as a friend. It
is only you who knows whom I hate and whom I do not. Most importantly, you were
there when I needed a friend the most. The fact that you are not only mine, but
my sister’s best friend too says you are family.
From our introductory day of college to eating pasta and
shahi-paneer at your home and enjoying at you becoming maasi of two super-cute twin babies, all the moments have been
filled with fun and frolic. Be it the moment of getting photocopies of Consumer
Electronics’ notes from Banti bhaiya’s photocopy shop at Kashmere gate or the
moment I got afraid of your pet dog Snowie when it started following me wherever
I went, the journey has been beautiful. The exam times are unforgettable, lunch
times undeletable, and gossip times un-disclose-able!
I never expected a best friend in my life, but when God
gifted me with one, it was a person with exactly my name! Now that’s a highly
uncanny coincidence!
