I asked the driver to park the car. Then I noticed it he had taken a right turn much ahead. I saw a new building and teenage students in uniform. There was a college bus. This must be the new engineering college. I told the driver to come out and go further and take a right turn.
There it was, the two sheds and the road in between. There was something like a parking area between the two sheds. I got out.
There was a stillness in the area, it was around 4.15 PM. I glanced both sides. One side was the same old shed where the first PDC students and also the first DC students used to study. I turned. Then saw that the second shed is no more. A new building was coming up, construction workers were seen on the half constructed two storeyed building.
Again memories. Some of the B.Com classes were there in that shed. Sreekumar S. Pillai was canvassing for winning the Chairmanship post telling some story of Vaikom Muhammed Basheer. Hmmm……
Another incident in the now demolished shed. There was some alteration once between B.A. and B. Com students. It seems that when B.A people tried to conduct a strike in one B. Com class there were some arguments. It became serious and resulted in some skirmishes. All B.A. students in Sankara took a procession and there was some passionate slogan shouting. After some time, B.Com students could not simply watch. They assembled all their batch mates and had a counter procession with slogan shouting. There were some tense moments. Even respective teachers looked like they were taking sides, from their expressions. There was a lot of drama with B.A and B. Com tension gripping the college.
It was then that I got an idea. Why these two people alone are shining? I called my class people on the first floor of the main building. There were a few juniors including my brother and his classmates. I started
B.Sc B. Sc….. B. Sc Zindabad
B A kkare B Com kare thammil thalli chatholu
B Sc kkaru padicholaam…..
Isac Newton Zindabad
Albert Einstein Zindabad
a,b,c,d zindabad…..
x-um y-um zindabad
alpaha beta zindabad…..
gamma delta zindabad….
The crowd swelled more and more when we entered the sheds. The science and maths teachers were smiling at us when we were passing. Why, all were smiling at us. It relaxed the college atmosphere in a span of half an hour.
Now one of the sheds is no more. By the time I come next, the second one also will not be there……?
