In Retrospection

(Memories of A-Top, Hall I, IIT-Kanpur, batch of 1989)

by Chari - May 1989

Through examination
Or special application
We gained admission
To this institution.

Was the coordination
Of our habitation
An indication
Of predestination?

That was the inception of our association:

Dadiya's inquisition
Shulla's indisposition
Baap's vacillation
Lala's realization
Chari's dissipation
Pondy's illustration
Ganja's determination
Rusty's "wakeful" vision
Bulla's moderation - not in intoxication
Jebi's prohibition
Jani's desperation
Rick's economization
Sandy's imagination
Ramki's vociferation
Tondi's hibernation
CD's situation - and moralization
Shit's denudation
Raval's transformation
and Thulla's "action":
What a combination!

I recall with emotion:

Many a card session
The eternal commotion
Of our recreation
A Culfest inauguration
A New Year celebration
Every job refection (Ah! What consumption)
The democratization
Of taking a decision (Result: Consternation)
The mutual toleration
And cooperation.

From Orientation
to the cancellation of the Convocation
(From the initiation to the completion
Of our graduation - Oh! congratulation)
It's been "consolidation"
For our organization
But now it's separation
Each to his own vocation:
Be it administration
Or higher education
Industrial production
The teaching profession
Or the police station.
(The diversification
Of occupation
Again, a reflection
Of the variation
within this collection)

At point of embarkation, here's my valediction:

Not a lamentation
But an anticipation
Of future unification
On a sandy destination
On the west coast of the nation.

The Cast

In Order of Appearance:

R. Ravikumar
Kavish Bhatnagar
Raju Subramaniam
Alok Agrawal
Surajit Basu
Hansraj Sharma
Rajeev Kumar Sinha
Shantanu Rastogi
Amber Habib
Jacob Philips
Prashant K. Jain
Saurabh Goyal
Sandeepan Banerjee
B. Ramakrishnan
N. Kesavan
Pawan Dhamija
Dipen Sheth
Alpan Raval
Vinay Kathotia


Amber Habib 1