XAVERIAN CHRONICLES part 1

by Robin S. Joseph

How many people do you know would sacrifice even their left nut for u n u for them???

and the criteria is:
1) Its not ur girlfriend
2) not ur parents
3) not ur family
4) not ur pet dog

1 maybe 2,5 and if u r really lucky 10?
Well as 4 me i knew over a hundred such people
Hard to believe huh?
Well that was the magic of a boys school called SXD(St. Xaviers Doranda)

And when i look back now i realise the true value and extent of the friendship we shared.
Actually we shared more much more...
As any ex xaverian (at least of my batch) would tell u we shared not only our TIFFINS but also our
LIVES (WIVES also rhymes with LIVES and i know what u r thinkin and the ans is NO HELL NO)


Heck, now that i think of it we were each others lives.Each of us were an integral part of each others lives.
What do u expect when you spend upto 8 hrs a day with the same guys for 11 years straight???
They are as much part of ur life as u r of theirs.
I know 4 certain that these 100 fellows that i speak of have in some way helped make me (4 better or for worse) the
person that i am today. :)


here i will try to list down memories of my friends from those days:

(friends listed in no particular order jst the order in which they come to my mind)

1) Souvik Mitra:
We used to call him "Churan"/"Churu" n he used to call me "Vindoo" or "Windoo"
He is probably 1 of the most descent and well behaved human beings i ever met.
But strangely enough he had quite a reputation 4 inflicting pain on quite a few
hence earning him the nickname "Churan" (no pun intended)
But what he didnt know was we let him be churan only for 2 reasons:
1)otherwise he would go all jackie chan on us
2)bec we loved him so much

One day all his activities as Churan came to an end this was the day he got his as* kicked by
Bhushan.This is our lil secret.Dont worry Churu i wont tell a soul. :)

A fact that only a few ppl know about him is that he is one fine story teller!
He used to tell me stories of all hindi movies he had watched while we used to run on the track.
I still remember the expressions on his face while he qouted dialogues from "Munna Bhai MBBS"

As i mentioned earlier(Oh wait maybe i didn't) he was an absolute mama's boy n y not his mum is really loving :) i still
rmember how he had only a few hair strands that he could call a beard n that too were plucked off
from time to time by his mum. :)
I remember he always used to bring the same thing in tiffin paraathas(triangular shaped) n aloo
in a small rectangular container in his tiffin.

Oh Yeah most important fact about churu
he has really tiny fingers (and believe me when i say tiny i mean child like)




2)Shashank Shekhar Katyayan:
his name was shashank and we used to call him shashank but for some strange reason
he preferred Shekhar over Shashank but i think Shashank is how i shall always remember this
awesome friend of mine.

He was what u would call evenly balanced in all spheres.He among all of us had the most practical approach
towards life.He n i shared the same passion for (no not wat u r thinking) computers.
he is a rockstar now n i hope his band does well n i get back stage passes to their performances
when they get famous.

I remember many things about him but a few memories that stand out are:
1) the way we used to advocate the use of p3 processors over p4 bec both of us hadnt upgraded
2) he told me once "robin, it dosent matter how,lean thin,fragile or weak a guy is, if u mess
with his sister he will go all bruce lee on ur as*"
(P.S.--->Shashank if u r reading this i m paraphrasing)
3) birthday parties at his house
4) his huge dog (biggest german shepard ever like it was on steroids or sumthin)



3)Ishan Kumar Basu:
He was a man with a world of his own. He is one of the few if not the only guy who
wore braces with pride.Big wwe Brock Lesnar fan.Tried unsuccessful FUs and f5s on almost all of us.
He was and most probably still is one of the most laid back n tension free ppl i have ever met.
Nothing can rattle him.

He was such a big brock lesnar fan that i think he even dreamed of delivering FUs
He was one of those ppl that u absolutely know will turn out to be the guy who drinks the most beer at
any party.(n i mean that as a compliment)

wat i remember best about him is how while playing smackdown over at shashank's
i kicked his as* to kingdome come even after he delivered 29 stunners to me.
(A feat that can be acomplished only in the virtual world of wwe smackdown)

4)SUMO:
Its a shame i dont even remember his real name.
He was the biggest guy in our group at just under 6ft (then) n gigantic frame. He sure was a physical
specimen compared to us.
He had a unique way of walkin it was as if he knew that the rest of the world was smaller than him
and that he had all the time in the world
But he has changed almost as much as i have since those days.
Now He's believe it or not skinny!!!!
due to factors such as hard work and a few other vices(if u know wat i mean)


5) Rahul Singh:
A.K.A. JAVA or Javaman
i dont remember y we used to call him that (nebody who remembers is free to comment)
he was my bench mate 4 many years.
he n i were the laqnguage toppers of our class
while i held fort at English he was the champion of Hindi

He was the most determined n hardworking among us.
He always had aims both short and long term set for himself and he would work relentlesly to achieve them.

things i remember about him:
1)his fabulous tiffins
2)he was the only person i ever saw who ate maggi curry
3)he had an unlimited supply of hide n seek biscuits
4) the way he used to say "DOWN DOWN DOWN ....." which was generally his way of
saying that u had just been humiliated
He has a girlfriend now whom he loves very much n reffers to as his jaan.
They make a cute couple.
I wish em all the best in life.

6)Ankit Anant Seraphim:
now most of u r goin who????
are koi nai m talking about apna HOMO yaar
we used to call him HOMO. (u guess the reasons)
he is one of the most childish guys i have ever met (in a good sense though)
his activities always put a smile upon all our faces :)
in a group of hundred u can expect him to come up with the most bewildering n incredibly stupid comments
although he is a fun guy to hang out with certain things about him still remain a mystery like:
why he chose the name seraphim.fmachine for his email id (i mean does he really think he is an f machine ???)


few memories i have of him:
1)the way he went without bathing for a month (true story) untill finally his mum did us all
a favour and forced him to.

2)he once told me his father had all the sctatches on his car counted!!!!

3)The first time i got drunk in my life was at his birthday party.
(I bet Souvik remembers this)


all comments from ex xaverians are welcome..
Welll thats it for now ill continue writing about my friends in part 2 of this article..
m tired n sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

to be continued.....

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