In Retrospection

Memories of A-Top, Hall I, IIT-Kanpur batch of 1989

With apologies to The Reformation

by Surajit Basu


Through examination
Or special application
We gained admission
To this institution.

Was the coordination
Of our habitation
An indication
Of predestination?

That was the inception
of our association:

Dadiya's inquisition
Shulla's indisposition
Baap's vacillation
Lala's realization
Chari's dissipation
Pondy's illustration
Ganja's determination
Rusty's "wakeful" vision
Bulla's moderation 
- NOT in intoxication
Jebi's prohibition
Jani's desperation
Rick's economization
Sandy's imagination
Ramki's vociferation
Tondi's hibernation
CD's situation 
- and moralization
Shit's denudation
Raval's transformation
and Thulla's "action": 
What a combination!		
I recall with emotion:
Many a card session,
The eternal commotion
Of our recreation,
A Culfest inauguration,
A New Year celebration,
Every job refection
(Ah! What consumption),
The democratization
Of taking a decision
(Result: consternation),
The mutual toleration
And cooperation.
From Orientation
to the cancellation
of the Convocation
(From the initiation
to the completion
Of our graduation
- Oh! congratulation)
It's been "consolidation"
For our organization;
But now it's separation
Each to his own vocation:
Be it administration
Or higher education
Industrial production
The teaching profession
Or the police station
( and now Security Protection ).
(The diversification
Of occupation
Again a reflection
Of the variation
within this collection)

At point of embarkation,
here's my valediction:
Not a lamentation
But an anticipation
Of future unification
On a sandy destination
On the west coast of the nation.
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