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V 2003, A Spotlight on the Archetypical Love Bite
Ashima Goyal, fondly called Ashi by her friends, was the most jumpy (read ‘enthu’) punter of her batch in H-10. From Soc Secy for H10 in her 2nd year to MoodI CG for Informals in her 3rd year to IITB Athletics team at inter-IITs and participating in PAFs, this girl was unstoppable. Not to mention, she was a ‘9 pointer’ in Elec, no mean feat either. No surprise then, put mildly, that non-trivial number of guys across several batches heaved self-confessed love for this damsel from Jaipur. The one to succeed was none other than her close friend from Bansal classes in Kota, Sikander. Sikander, or “Sikki” to his friends was a happy-go-lucky stud from Udaipur, Least known as a sincere academic and best known to his peers as an ace swimmer, an exceptional dancer and a troublemaker-inchief. Thanks to a heady mix of good looks and an impish charm, the strapping Sikander could swim and dance his way into many a girl’s heart - a talent that he faithfully exercised both on and off-campus, throughout his four-year tryst with Chemical Engineering. The sincerity, will and heart then, with which he pursued Ashima amidst these numerous distractions, almost belies his “bad boy” reputation. It stays true though, both to Sikander’s habit of cloaking his predominantly romantic side with a less favourable one and to the paradoxical beauty of Sikander
and Ashima’s romance. If it is true that opposites attract, it has never held truer than for this couple. An out-of control, bold brat who, quite inexplicably, managed to charm the sincere and lady-like Ashima into asking HIM out. No surprise though, as Sikander was known to have an uncanny ability to get work done without being the one actually doing it! Sikki and Ashi’s love story was right out of a Bollywood movie and you got to read on to find out more… Noseybee I know this is supposed to be a campus love story, but mine actually has a short prelude to it. Personally, I think that phase had more masala than anything else. Hence, I’ll start from the start. It all began a year before we took the JEE. Sikander and I met for the first time at Anshul’s birthday party and, somehow, ended up talking a lot that night. To-date, Sikander claims that he’s been in love with me ever since. That’s something I still find incredulous, but he insists that he’s been trying to ‘patao’ me then onwards. Whew… Guys, I tell you! They never stop trying (<evil grin>and lying </evil grin>)! I still remember the letter that he wrote to me for New Year’s then, dripping with honey and coated in butter. And the incredible fact is that, just so it doesn’t seem odd, he wrote a similar letter to my best friend as well! We, being girls, obviously read each other’s letter and nearly cried laughing. In the pre-JEE days, Neha and I used to go jogging at 6am. For almost a month, Sikander joined us. I learnt later from his roommate that he would get up early to join us and then, as soon as he was back, he’d sleep like a log! Despite all of this, there were no real fireworks in the 12th standard. We gave the
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