“So you guys know each other from IIT days?”, a new person in the group asks my friend and me. It is Sunday evening, and four of us are doing what young working people of our country usually do on weekends — nothing.
“We are from the same year,yes, but we never spoke during college, in fact I don’t remember seeing him in college”, I reply.
It’s true. Perhaps I did share a couple of courses with him, but then I didn’t remember seeing him around. It happens. Especially when there are so many people around you.
“He definitely must remember seeing you in college though, there are just a handful of girls in IIT”, another old person in the group comments.
They all laugh, and my IIT friend starts telling his side of the view, mostly reminiscing the innocent perverseness of those days — “yes I remember her, we never spoke but I had seen her around. You are right, all of us guys did know all the girls. Those were crazy days, back then in the hostel, the guys would open up Facebook and tell me — oh you know this girl from your department, she is from Lucknow, and this other girl from Comp Sci is into dancing…we knew everything virtual about every girl real.”
Facebook has been very helpful that way, helping people stalk people.
My friend continues, “these days you have Mark Zuckerberg saying — we want to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together, when in all honesty it was started to answer the fundamental question — kitni hot hai be ?”
If you are from the country and this made you laugh, please clap.
