Tuesday, December 20, 2011

A Semester In IISC (6) - Crows' blessings

(It has nothing to do with the crow that we saved in the previous incident) Its very difficult to stay in IISc for 2 years and not have crow's droppings fall on you even once..

So the seniors started a legend, saying that the crows in IISc are professors from the past and the droppings are their blessings.. If it falls directly on your head, then the legend goes that you are likely to publish a paper..

One day aliyaar and me were coming back from dept to hostel.. aliyaar was behind me .. suddenly i head a noise and stopped my cycle and looked back.. aliyaar was in the gutter holding his cycle.. now, aliyaar is an expert when it comes to cycling.. he has somehow managed not to fall off..it looked as if he was driving in the gutter.. What happened was, aliyaar when he got on the cycle had a suspicion that there were dropping on his seat.. and the expert that he is, he stood up.. and looked down on to his seat, all the while driving the cycle.. and next moment realised that there was no dropping on his seat and that he was in the gutter...

amby has largely been blessed by the crows in IISc.. Whenever he takes his bike and goes out, crows somehow find a way to drop em on to his shirts.. he tried taking different routes, but some how they'll find a way to not miss him.. He's guaranteed to publish 3-4 papers atleast, probably one journal too..

I somehow managed to stay away from all this for 2-3 months.. but for the past one month, i have been getting dropped at, at the most unlikeliest of places.. like in the pathway to mess.. our starry road(coz at night if you look at the road, its like looking at the sky with stars shining so bright..) even in front of the main building (but i still believe it was a fruit.. though anzu made it a point to let all the guys passing us, when they were cleaning my hair, that it was a crow's dropping and there's nothing to worry.. )

There's also this story, i dunno if its true.. it was told to us by navneeth chettan.. There was this guy, a friend of navneeth, who was making fun of his friends by telling how the crows shit on them but never on him.. he was animatedly pointing it out by pointing his finger.. Now the crows being past professors, were so precise that they dropped it right on to the finger he was pointing.. (Could be true.. coz navneeth was taking "vratham" to go to sabarimala.. so he couldn't lie..)


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