Relation with Behala...

Kya yehi pyaar hain

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Haan yehi pyaar hain

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O dil tere bin

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Kahin laagta nahin,

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Waqt guzarta nahin

Is This what is called love?

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Yes, This is love

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Without you, my heart

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Doesn’t feel good anywhere

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And time doesn’t pass

Yes, this song from the film Rocky can very well depict my relationship with Behala and my friends over there…

For the first time I tasted the feeling of

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friendship and it stayed with me

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forever. We were eight and I was the

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leader…we experienced all

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adolescence ups and downs. We were

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inseparables. As if we could do

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anything for each other. Somehow,

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they always pampered me like there’s

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no tomorrow till date I always think why

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I was given this “royal” treatment by

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some complete strangers of same age.

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They gave me the opportunity to lead

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a team.

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And later when I started leading

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Prayasam it helped immensely. I was

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always chosen as their “guardian

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angel” – their first date, first crush,

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everything until and unless they

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confided with me it was not

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“sanctified”. What I said was always

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the gospel truth and nothing but the

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truth. It was dizzy and a bit unsettling

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at times. As they never showed any

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resistance towards my actions or

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behavior, I could have become

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a narcissist. 

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Thank God, better senses prevailed, it

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gave me an opportunity to review my

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actions every time I thought I was

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pushing the envelope a bit too further

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being a leader I thought I have to

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conduct myself in such a way that

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I don’t give them a scope for

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complaints. I never did. And this

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leadership trait stayed with me

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forever…Fevicol Ka Jor….and thus in

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Prayasam I could not become an

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Office BOSS ever…

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In Behala we started RAZZMATAZZ, a socio-cultural club

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and did many out of the box things, like publishing paper in

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French, L'Ami du people (the friend of the people)

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obviously it didn’t have any takers apart from some

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members. But that didn’t deter us to something new

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whenever we got an opportunity. That’s why I never felt the

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urge to go anywhere leaving them behind and the feeling

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was reciprocal. 

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I stayed there from my adolescence to my youth and when

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my mind was just trying to spread its wings a little wide, my

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family decided to move from Behala. It was like cutting my

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heart into two halves. At first I thought it would be

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impossible to live a life without them and vice versa. It was

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a mixed feeling altogether. I won’t lie that I was feeling

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enthusiastic to start a new adventure with a new place but

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at the same time having the pangs of separation.

 

 

Is there a

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definite definition of Love…I don’t know…but till today if

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anyone asks me about my Love I revert back to Behala and

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only Behala.

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