“ Ladki boli toh maan gaya. Bhai samjhaya
toh nahi mana. Sahi hain’’. That’s what
he told one of the boys when we wanted a common mess for all the first year
students.
Tanuj Gautam. It is the same CB-8
building, the same fourth floor and the same place where you spent some of the
best days of your life. Today as your birthday is near, I look at your old room
and think ‘How different it would have been if you were still here’. Maybe if you were still there, we would have
had your birthday party in the mess with a huge chocolate cake, balloons, gifts
and all your friends. Maybe if you were still here, you would have finally
given me the biryani that you once promised. But sigh. If only you were there.
It’s indeed another year. Another
beginning. But we have not forgotten you especially when it’s your birthday. Maybe
there are no balloons, no gifts, no chocolate cake. It has been three years
since you left but all of us surely remember you and miss you in our own ways. It
would have been different if you were still present with us be it in the B.A
LL.B classes or the moot court competitions or the new campus. After all it is
said that “Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed and very dear.”
Unseen, unheard, but always near; still loved, still missed and very dear.”
Happy Birthday Tanuj. May you be
happy wherever you are. We miss you.
