Friday, March 6, 2009

Amartyajit Mukherjee (Telu, Kerosene, Lama and all variants thereof)

Subidit Nandy (in his blog)

This guy successfully managed to irritate almost everyone from our batch, senior batch, junior batch, teachers, monks, hospital staffs, bhandar staffs and even barbar and TUNU RAM by his not so flattering words atleast for once within his long span of vidyapith life. He is titled kerosene oil because most of the times his flattering words were enough to fire your temper rather to ameliorate.

Amartyajit, (on himself in his orkut profile)

i am who i am

My take

I have met numerous people by now. A simple case study would reveal that I have known more than a thousand people easily. And I can say this with full conviction that I am yet to meet anyone even remotely as irritating as him.
While I hated him no end during my Vidyapith days, I must laud him for actually maintaining this reputation of his throughout.
He had this amazing ability to always look engaged in some work or the other, and would claim responsibility in whatever manner he could to be in the good books of authorities. That the authorities were no less irritated is a different matter altogether.
A typical conversation with Amartyajit would be:
AM: "ki re .., ki kosrchhish" (Hey .., what are you doing?)
U: "aamake irritate korbi na, maar khabi" (Don't irritate me, you'll be beaten)
AM: (after a pause, and a terrified look that would make you think that the battle's won, and you can now proceed peacefully with whatever you were doing) "thik aache" (OK)
(Another pause, sounds of footsteps behind you thereafter. If you are quick enough to react, this is the end of Amartya. If not, you shall make sure that this is done after a few moments.)
AM: (catching you totally off-guard, with his curling fingers in front of your nose, his own, if you were luckier) "Llama, Llama" (No translation)
U: (Do you think you would actually say anything thereafter? A slap or a fist or a public beating if there are others nearby).

Amartyajit would be typically happy after singing bhajans as the music group leader, and would have threatened you a zillion number of times of going to the authorities straightaway. Among his other chief traits, I really don't think I remember any of them!

2 comments:

Subidit Nandy said...

Man even negative publicity is publicity after all. I never imagined telu to make place in so many blogs!!!

Tarun Goyal said...

interesting... ;)