I too had a Love Story
#Ravinder Singh
I remember the date well: 4 March 2006. I was in Kolkata and about to reach Happy’s home. I had
been very excited all morning as I was going to see our gang of four after three years. After our
engineering, this was the first time when all of us—Manpreet, Amardeep, Happy and I—were going
to be together. During our first year in the hostel, Happy and I were in different rooms on the fourth
floor of the Block-A building. Being on the same floor, we were acquaintances but I never wanted to
interact with him. I didn’t think him to be ‘a good guy’ because of his fondness for fights and the red
on his mark sheet. But, unfortunately, I was late in getting back to the hostel at the beginning of the
second year and almost all the rooms were already allotted by then. I was not left with any choice
other than becoming Happy’s roommate. And because life is weird, things changed dramatically and,
soon, we became the best of buddies. The day our reunion was scheduled, he had been working with
TCS for two years and was enjoying his onsite project in London. Happy was blessed with a height
of 6’1”, a good physique and stunning looks.
And Happy was always happy. Manpreet, or MP as we called him, is short-statured, fair and
healthy.