Thursday, October 09, 2008

Balewadi and Akashwani.

Somewhere I read 2 words- Balewadi and Akashwani. Nostalgia took me to my Engg days. Every morning, Aai listens Aakashwani. Though it is a big panic for my sister, who takes a conscious sleep, small programs of 5 minutes help Aai to keep track of time. Also they broadcast good information about various things.

I, usually in deep sleep, take periodic triggers for at least 30 mins to wake up. Aai used to start shouting at 6:30 maybe. After sleepy “aai-please-2-min.” for about half an hour, I used to hear 1st line on Akashwani.

Pune station, they air Sanskrit news. I am on time if I wake up between
“Eeyam Akashwani samprati vartaha shruyantam Pravachakaha Baladevananda Sagara ” and “Iti vartaha ”.

If it is “Aata aaikuya Nata Nisargashi ya sadarat Maruti Chitamapalli yanni dileli mahiti” and I am still brushing, I must skip bath.

If I hear “Bhalchandra Joshi pradeshik batamya det ahet.”, I could see my bus passing without me!

If the woman is saying “… apale aarogya ya sadarat Dr. Rajeev Sharangpani yanni dileli mahiti …”, I need to play different cards:

My college was near Balewadi. Oh no, even far from Balewadi- total dist. more than 30 KM. And prompt PMT used to provide buses to reach there with a great frequency of one for every 2 hrs. I must walk 1.5 km to catch the lal dabba. So, if I miss morning college bus, instead of taking next PMT after 3 hrs, I used to skip the college. HOD was Hitlar. In fact one can ridicule Hitlar with his name. So the rule was to inform him with reason, if you are taking off.
Well, he called a couple of times to enquire about my bunk to my mom. The phone was requested one. I gave this reason and asked him not to call :P.
So I used to write a quick application, and hand it over to Patil (a lecturer—yes he is not a Prof., (though he says so) who used to catch bus from my stop). Patil did this kabutarbaaji for some days. Markande then dared me to do so again.
Anyway there was no escape from his scolding, even if I reach the college. C teacher used to send me to him for not completing assignments. Patil would complain for not being attentive in class. Jaadi (don’t remember her name) would complain for misguiding other students while solving problems. Sheetal Kapde-Maths had complained for laughing (at her??) in the class. Many teachers noticed attitude problem, arrogance and complained to HOD. He also used to keep track of all my bunks. I still challenged him by announcing a mass bunk in the college. (Which was followed by disasters. I managed to end the story quite diplomatically :) or maybe he allowed me to do so!!)

He punished me by all various means; still I enjoyed those days … like most of us did.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kudos!! to Koustubh for this factual piece of information...Every word is true and nothing but true :P and dude Jaddi was Ingawale...People generally learn Kirchoff's law of current But we learned Koustubh's Law of current :D The Law goes like this and I quote "Arre current kuthunahi ghal result sarakha asto"....On hearing this that huge piece of pure meat stormed at me and our scientist koustubh and jooked us out of class...to which "Marco the Hitler" Said tumhala singga futle aahet....now just imagine how this brat a koustubh would look with horns...cheers mate old memories revived!! and Itti varthaha ;)

Unknown said...

Damm.....that was really fun...now that I am in UK for MBA,I miss those days badly!
Thanks 2 koukya for bringing those old memories back :)
Love u guys....keep rocking!!!

-Anand.

Unknown said...

tukya ... many a times i used to get into the trap coz of u ... who used to mimic girls in bus ? -case went to Vice Principal!! who used to mimic teachers ... and who derived reason for Sheetal Kapde's frustrations - ithe sangitala tar mahila mukti sanghacha morcha yeil tuzyavar :) and still u managed to keep ur sincere image ... and i was all screwed !! Seema Kedar (C teacher) was almost in love with you believing u used to complete all ur assignments ...

Unknown said...

andeee thanks a lot !! :)
all the best for ur MBA and njoy.

... said...

I made a sincere attempt to visualize what you went through!

:)

koustubh kulkarni said...

@ ...

thanks .. well it was a sincere attempt to show u the picture :)

Unknown said...

Well I still remember the comment that I made on nishu...."tera femine behaviour thoda change kar"....and he went boom on me!!!

Also the incident when he came to my place midnight and directly asked me "where is tukya?"...courtesy tanya :)
nishu was really different from d others,wasn't he?I guess tukya will knw it better...lol!

Anonymous said...

Ohh Andy so you do remember Nishu ;) I thut hes a figment of your imagination :P

koustubh kulkarni said...

haha ...
well nishu did have "special" relationship with many of us ... andya, me, tukya. And oh... Tanya incidence was hilarious :).

Vaniki said...

cool
mast likha hai sir
waise do remember the time wen we used to hear aakashwaani and esp vividh bharti ;) while sitting in bus and often moving from jhalwa to C.L :P

Nitin Khairatkar said...
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Nitin Khairatkar said...

koukya navacha prani ashakya shot det hota...mi aani tukya tyamule khupda suffer zalot college chya safar madhe....Kapade che first yr che ek lecture mala aathavatay..i hope tukya ani koukya la lagech strike hoil kuthle te...aani akshay patil navachya mahapurushacha tiffin..kapade ni "hyacha tar mi nadach sodlay" asha shabdat maza uddhaar kela hota..prathamdarshi jo artha nighto tasa artha gheun ghodchuk karu naye ;) .. bus stop var dekhil mi aani koukya ne barech pratap kele hote je ajunahi prakashit zale nahit... bus chya return trip madhe mi,koukya aani tukya eka seat var basun nirarthak hasyaprayog karat hoto....tyaveles jar laughter shows aste tar i think aamhich winners aani audience che kam chokh bajawale aste...mala hyachyavar tukya aani koukya chi pratikriya vachayla aavadel...

koustubh kulkarni said...

@vaniki

Thanks a lot ...

@Nitya

Sheetal la khadoo koni marla hota ?
baki chahale tuze itake ashlaghya ahet ki ithe sangu shakat nahi.
ani tu, tukya ani sankya acharat jokes karayacha .. tyamule me pakadla jayacho .. he satya ahe !!! tu kitihi nahi mhan !!

aso, vachalyabadal ani pratikriyebaddal dhanyavaad !!

culpavan said...

Hi Kaukya.. First time visited ur blog.. Ani manapasun lihtoy.. Khup chan lihtos tu. Ayla amhala ka suchat nahi he sagal.
"Bhalchandra Joshi Aaplyala Pradeshik Batmya Det Ahe" hya panktichi wat mi roz bhagat hote. karan Aai ne zopetun uthawlyaar( kadhi kadhi premane) Bhalchandra Joshi punha mala nidrista avastet pathwat hote. Tyanchya shri mukhatun nighalele shabdan madhe bhatmya kami ani angai geet jast asaych.
Dhanyawad.. Lahanpanichya tya anandachi and khodkar panachipunha athawan karun dilis tu.

koustubh kulkarni said...

thanks a lot pavan ...

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Anonymous said...

Sahi re Mitra,sagalya junya aathvani tajya kelyas....Akashwani...Baldevanand Sagar....Maruti Chittampalli....Bhalchandra Joshi....kityek varsh aikat hoto..tyanna....
Although,I am not from your college,your blog refreshed all my beautiful memories about Akashwani (my father used to listen to) and college days ani tithe kelelya tawalakya.Good.Keep it up.Mast lihitos.....Subhash

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