LOCATION: MY COLLEGE'S ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING
TIME: 12:30 hrs
CURRENT ACTIVITY: RUNNING
OMG!!!
The clock warningly showed 12:30pm. I ran as fast as I could through the corridor hoping that I make it to the office before it closed down for the weekend. Actually I had an hour more to finish my work at the office, but since it was Saturday, so it was half day & moreover people in India have the habit of leaving office half an hour early before closing time, specially on weekends(CONSIDER 1 hr for GOVT OFFICES). It was the last day for me to deposit my yearly tuition fees at the college office, failing which I would have to pay a fine of 500 bucks for everyday I delayed in paying the sum.
I reached my battleground & checked my watch...it didn't offer me any comfort or mercy, rather showed me that I had 15 more minutes to finish my battle...Neither did the shabby office welcome its visitors with proper seating and fans. But what I saw after that washed away my remaining enthusiasm for the job at hand....A LINE OF 7 UNFORTUNATE STUDENTS LIKE ME TRYING TO SAVE THEIR BUCKS!!
I calculated...12 minutes and 7 guys...Shit I don't even know what the result to that math would be or rather my mind didn't want to do math...it wanted back the comfort of the bed it was lying on, but was woken up brutally by its owner to SAVE HIS OWN *SS....SELFISH F**KING *SS!!
I joined the queue of the students lined up in front of the counter and noticed a Marathi guy from my own class standing before me....he clicked and tapped his iPhone hard as it begged him for mercy, but somehow he was too RICH to care about that...Yess, guys he was the son of an MLA in the city and was one of the hotshots in our class…we never talked much in class, just formal hi's n hello's was all that we knew of each other. We greeted each other with our customary "Hi" and he went back to cursing somebody he was with, on the phone. After sometime Mr. MLA's turn came up with two minutes to spare on the clock. I noticed that he grumbled about fees hike in college. Actually our college fees had gone up that year by a few hundred bucks and now it amounted close to 53000 p.a.
53000 p.a. meant 2,12000 for four years besides other expenses for books, training costs, fooding, lodging etc. My father is a teacher in a state owned high school in Assam and sending his son to study engineering in Nagpur was something that invited increased expenses and so he took a bank loan for my education, as did the parents of many other students. Well due to the fee hike many people were complaining and students took out rallies in Nagpur protesting the fee hike.
Anyway back at the fee counter, I found out the reason why Mr. MLA was upset...
To be Continued
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