There cannot be a better time than the wee hours of morning to retrospect ones life. Leaning over the parapet wall of my cushy balcony, I couldn’t help but notice the distant sounds of dogs barking, a confident early morning flight's take off, soothing fresh breeze and a flickering yet undying attempt of the night lamp to illuminate the corner of my street.
What a perfect milieu to crawl through my memory lane. Silence so serene that I could hear my hearts beat. Jumbled scenes from my yesteryears brought involuntary expressions in my face – enigmatic grins altering with inexplicably cold resentment.
An unsuccessful attempt to run away from home at 13, kneeling down at the doors of the head master, the slanderous first kiss, my vespa scooter, dodging cops, my playboy collection being burnt, my first computer, my first pair of football boots, capping my school’s soccer team, my first part time job, my first salary of Rs.750, first time that I bunked my class, first time that I flunked, sneak outs at nights, my quiz conquests, kicking hard on my senior’s crotch for ragging my best friend (eventually got beaten black and blue)…. An unending list of evergreen flashes from my past!!
Here I’m, this is me… Srikrishnan Ananthanarayanan! An absolute Palki (Palakkad Iyer). Contrary to the universal Palki ideology where (IITs, IIMs. BITS and ICAI’s) are the only four schools in the world – you finish out of any other instis
a) You are not an Iyer.
b) You are certainly not a Palakkad Iyer.
c) You are a faux pa
From now on… this blog is about ME, a non IIT/IIM/CA Iyer (call me a pseudo Iyer if u want)! This will be about my life, my fights against time and resources. My wins ( countable few) and shit loads of loser stories. I think that’s where I win.
Well…I have planned to pen down my (mis)adventures in detail in the days to come. I’ll try to cover incidents in reverse chronology! Not sure if it would interest you but it would be more of revelations. People concerned might get offended (bound to) and I might give me death threats… ;-) . Who cares…
I might reveal my ex girls, my crime (rhyme) partners, may be even reveal my ex-boss’s ( a typical HARI SADU) clandestine affair too!! But… but…. but … I do regard them in one way or other so I might use pseudonyms.
So watch out this space!!
srikrish
