Jairam's Jives

This is my first attempt at a short-story. All readers are requested to be forthcoming with their views, good or bad.

There he was on his wheelchair, sitting in the park right under the Gulmohar tree reminiscing the good old times he had enjoyed there. With Rafiq, Umar and his childhood sweetheart Gul, Amin had made the most of his war-torn childhood. Although there was conflict all around him, he had always found happiness and joy in the company of his friends, and more so with Gul. She always seemed to bring out the beauty in the nature around him. With her, the roses seemed redder, the sky bluer, the grass greener, the birds chirpier.

Looking back at those days, Amin felt that Gul probably was the only person he was living for.

Trust : firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.

Now, if you've been with a person or persons for a good portion of 22 odd months, done everything (eat, sleep, laugh, cry, play, share secrets, drink, dance, fight) with a select few bunch of people, trust is invariably bound to be built up with these guys. However, on the flipside, you just might get to know these other guys a little too well to trust them in crunch situations.

At first sight it looks like a nondescript hole-in-the-wall and when you walk into the place, you are anything but tempted to sit down and start eating. But then, once the food arrives and you put in the first few morsels into your mouth, you realise you've arrived at a place which is more than just going to fill your stomach. Now, that is the Kerala Mess at Mhow for you.

Now that is the one single word that pretty much encapsulates what I'm feeling right now having finished my last academic session here at IIM Indore.

I still remember the first session I attended here at this glorious campus on the hill, and man, have I come a long way since that session.

It's been a wonderful two years both academically and otherwise at this hill resort, that we call IIM Indore. And these memories are truly going to last a lifetime.