Batuta

Oh My God! That was the first thought that crossed my mind, when i heard the news that our dear Batuta had joined LBS College of Engineering Kasaragod as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, the very same college from where we completed our graduation. I think it is necessary to describe him, one of my very close buddies. His real name is Rafeek TP, hailing from Malayamma near NITC campus. According to myths, his idol Vineesh Kumar sir of applied science department gave him the nicknamed after Ibn Batuta a great Moroccan traveler. Bathu, as we fondly call him, is a real miser (a modern day Ebenezer Scrooge) and an ardent cricket fan. We lucidly remember his reaction in one of the classes when he jumped in excitement after knowing that Sehwag had scored a ton. He was sitting in the 1st row then. He is typical, yet a dexterous fellow. A man of 5 feet 5 inches with a wonderful mathematical brain. A puzzlemaniac who shouts during midnight after solving puzzles! A man who set a record for sleeping continuously for 26 hours! An incarnation of bakasura, as he can eat twice his own weight!  Now he has to share the staff room with Mary Reena madam (the HOD), Sheeba madam and others. One man whom he would dearly miss in the staff room will be Mr. Pachalam Bhasi, the inventor of the second set of navarasas. I desperately wanna see him sitting in the staff room with those titans & students around him, asking to sign records. One thing is for sure he will thrill both the classroom and staffroom with his knowledge in cricket and puzzles.

All the best dear bathu!