Flashbacks: A Year To Remember (Part VII): How I Met Pritam

How I Met Pritam is the shortest one. It was that famous Wednesday, the special one too coz I became a part of the group we called PAPANDAS.

Pritam is a short thin guy everyone likes to pick on for fun. Laughs at his own jokes and mostly remains pissed and annoyed. You will never know what he takes seriously and what he doesn’t. Neither do you know when he is sensitive and when he is not. He is the one who almost always funds our outings and he is the one who will get all the different items each for everyone and finally cannot finish his own. Sometimes he is awkward, sometimes, he is stiff, sometimes kind, other times jumping off a cliff. I think whoever named him, he made a mistake, he should have named him Sometimes Das.

That Wednesday, I went with the guys to the spot for the first time, and just along the curve, there was a gate that guarded the entrance to out college playground, and as we were walking the street towards the gate, I could see at a distance, a small fellow, in white and brown combination, with some other people around him looking for something. As we got nearer, that boy looked at our direction and smiled, and I also noticed that he was wearing white shirt and shorts of some color I dont know coz the brown I mentioned earlier was mud which hid the color of his shorts. He was covered with mud to his chest lenght and he was smiling all over his face with all the teeth he had and his eyes almost shut. The guys I was with introduced me to him. It was Pritam’s first introduction to me.

However, this was not the first time I saw Pritam. When I used to sit in class, and the classroom door used to be in a good view from where my bench was, I saw sometimes, something dark wearing white, scutter past the door which would be Pritam when he bunked his classes and roamed aimlessly throughout the college. Several months later, we actually came to know that he was playing football (soccer) that day I met him for the first time, he was sent to get the ball from the mud which was why he was brown. And Pritam is also credited to be the first ever benchwarmer Captain of any football team, and he was of CSE Football team.


There are numerous incidents on which our name is written all over in the past year, and in the most important ones', Prtiam's name is always written. He was supposedly the first "P" of  PAPANDAS, and one of my best friends, and as for times to come, he always will be...


Next One: How I Met Nirmalya... Hang On... Won't Be Long...

To Be Continued...