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The carefree college days, where all that mattered was bunking
classes, the hours spent in canteen, going to movies, shopping… Shankar and I
drifted close. Soon we drifted away from others, I a shadow of him, he leading
me to new worlds.
One world he led me into was that of college elections. He
campaigned for Pratyush, our senior. We were sophomores and Pratyush was doing
his first year post graduation. Pratyush and I rarely spoke to each other,
except when he wanted to give me some instruction. But he never failed to greet
me, even after he won the elections and became the president. Shankar, though,
became Pratyush’s understudy and spent much time with the ‘men in power’. I
complained, but it fell on deaf ears.
