1 and 1/2 bottles of beer

I really need a mug full of beer to pen down my experience with divine liquid. Those were the days when sharing 3 bottles of beer were good reason to celebrate without any reason. IIT is a place where carrying colored liquid inside the campus is always considered as an offence. But we hardly cared about the same, and this was never our constraint..!!! We normally had no reason to celebrate; it was just to spend time together after grueling days with seminars, classes, assignments and hell lot of other happenings.

The time was usually early in the evening. The menu used to be almost fixed. Before venturing out to get the bottles, we ordered 1 plate maggi (universal bachelor cuisine) and one pack of “kurkure” at hostel canteen. My bike was tattooed with “Tere Naam” and it looked like fragile piece of 3^rd handed vehicle. I am talking about my cycle which is a norm in IIT, infact all IITs. The campus gate was almost a kilometer from our hostel, so we decided to take our turn to ride the bike. The liquor shop was located just outside our campus gate followed with a small road-side cart (“thela”) of eggs, omlette and boiled eggs. After we purchase 3 bottle of beer, we used to visit this “thela” and had 2 plates of boiled eggs that seem awesome at that moment. We had to wrap the bottles with newspapers to avoid any noise that could hold us in suspicion in front of campus guards. Our next objective was to reach our room as soon as possible to have our drinks as chilled as possible. Since Vivek was strongest between us, he took the charge to ride the cycle. As we reach our room, our recipes were already ready in the canteen. Second room in ‘D’ block was our “adda”. Vivek had good collection of songs and movies (which doesn’t matter after two sips of drinks). Three bottles of beer was good enough for us. We shared half of these, always. We never complained, never regretted about the quantity and quality. It was always the same; one and the half bottle each…!!! We discuss all sorts of issues, right from latest movie to low GDP of our country. Sometimes we were accompanied with Supriya who had no relation with beer but acted as a chorus for two of us. We had our share of troubled life with us, and this was the best time to share. This was the time when everything seems to be the best.

It’s been 3 years that we haven’t met over the beer party, but I still cherish those glorious moments at IITK. We had our share of successes and failures but these moments can never be re-created unless we meet. Now we have been married and comfortably settled, but still the magic of this divine liquid remain the same.

As I gulp my last sip of beer, I could still remember the old days with my friend, the only moment I still miss now-a-days. We might have grown our life to new dimensions, but the beer party remains the same…

Ultimate divine..!!!