A few days ago, Gaddam, an REC junior dropped in to my office. He runs a software company in B’lore and was in Chennai on business.
He used to stay in Anand Apartments when Chacko, Puthu and the two Bijus shared a flat there. I was in Anna hostel then, but was a near-permanent fixture at Anand. Yet, when I reconnected with Gaddam on FB, my mind was embarrassingly blank about a lot of things that he excitedly recounted.
But when I saw him, it all came back to me…
At Anand the credo was Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Anandam (that is, Happiness, not the neighbour’s VK). ‘Getting wasted and acting like an idiot’ was the main thing, and soon the news reached our landlord. He landed up to investigate on a sell-bottles-buy-beer Sunday, made some weak joke about the 100 bottles in the living room, informed us that his sister is moving in to Chennai, and asked us to vacate (Call it a coincidence, any house I stay for 6 months, the landlord’s sister would get a transfer to Chennai).
Alumni: TK stayed in Anand during his first month in Chennai and Samy, during his last month (in Chennai, that is).
OK, back to Gaddam. We had a rollicking bull session, which Gaddam, with an acute sense of history, summed up as NON-POLitically Correct.
Babu Kuriakose 
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December 16, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Gaddam
I have nothing to chase in life ever since the noble peace prize lost its sheen this year. Imagine the gush of fulfillment now by getting featured in a D hostelite’s blog. (It looked as if only you lived in D whenever we would pass from B/C through D towards MC).
Despite getting the bottle centurions vacated, the landlord could not vacate the legacies. His attention was on a continuous look out with torch lights during later nights for some other “useless and dirty fellows” (as quoted in a Palghat Iyer accent by the secretary). Little did we realize then that years later “getting wasted” and “being useless” can bring out the most valuable and useful moments of youth.
Thanks for bring out the can of Anand from our yesteryears.
Gaddam
December 17, 2009 at 2:26 pm
babukuriakose
Thanks Gaddam