"Dude you indeed have guts !!! "
I had sighed right on our second meeting. He was standing bang outside the auditoruim of my college and ...yeah...smoking!!! . Back then he dint care much, and replied back." What man Rax, why should one bother at all?" till unexpectedly a couple of our professors gave him dirty glances as they were passing by.
And indeed like a super training to his reflex or something, in less than a jiffy that ciggarrate was below his feet and he was smiling back at them and had the marketing case open in his hand as well !!!. ( I still wonder how he digested all the smoke !!)
Otherwise Vinay has been very gutsy and brave. (Again, except once when he was shit scared as i took his car out for a drive with him seated on the backseat .It was reasonable , as back then, I did not know how to drive a car - or even to stop a running car.)
Opinions about him used to vary widely among us friends – he was very responsible to some, utterly irresponsible to many- many other , a chain smoker, a wonderful dancer, had a tongue for Japnese food, in-your-face sense of humor. And, oh boy, he was as smart as the devil himself.
On a lighter note heads used to turn (away) when he used to sing. It is even, roumoured, that dogs used to run helter-skelter to cover their ears, and residents in the raidus of 5 kilometers used to shut their windows and doors as if some alien invasion was unleashed.
Right from his school days he was a good friend, philosopher and guide for most of the girls , and then this continued right till his education was completed. He renewed this ability to a professional level, even as he entered his corporate life. But he never pursued anyone further (or is it the other way round?).
I explain it away that girls don’t like their boyfriends to be as smart. Of course, the antithesis would be that smart guys are rarely interested or find time in lesser things like girls.
Whatever it was, the effect was that , we both were usually free during college days (and post that too) and used to continue our discussion on unimportant things in life like "the demand supply curve, Case discussions, financial analysis etc to vital life changing discussions on which hotel to have dinner at or how to improve the bad and falling class attendance or the movie to be seen over the weekend, or strategy to continue with our pending badminton game.
Vinay, as he constantly said, lived to enjoy each moment in his life and would do anything to retain his independence and happiness.
Come this 28th this quintessential bachelor will be no more. And he will be missed. Happy wedding my dear friend and have a wonderful married life.
(Hope your future wife never reads this blog, as she will understand that you were a bloody chain smoker once , with an unshaved face most of the time, who later quit smoking when someone funnily told, you would go bald if you continued smoking - i know you are brave otherwise)
Most of us, especially myself, will miss you a lot when it is time to pay the dinner bill and we realize, the bill is to be shared with one person less now on.
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