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The hand that AHEM AHEM

The contents of this episode are of a highly sexual (?) nature ... reader discretion is advised ... The author is not responsible for any people not heeding the warning. The names are of people here and may not be recognized, it is better that way. And finally take it in good spirit and ENJOY! Another boring day of classes is how I started the day. Little was I to know that things were going to change dramatically during the course of the day. That a batch mate of ours would be raped and that also in the classroom. Well well well.... I will proceed to give details! After the first half during which nothing interesting happened. Well something interesting may have happened but I might have been too engrossed in my novel or asleep to realize it happened. Anyway the second half starts and everything goes well till tea time. After tea time things start to happen. Prem who was till now on the hot seat or should I say hot bed refuses to go back to his almighty altar, and so the next bak...

Building teamwork – of digging loos, climbing mountains

Someone rightly said – the only law in the jungle is 'survival of the fittest'. All the jungle talk is because the last 8 days I have been trying to ape Tarzan (the guy in the spotted loin cloth jumping from tree to tree) in his habits. The occasion – an offsite organized for us by ONGC Day 1: off to Uttarkashi, some place called Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. Run by the Indian Army the make Ranga seem a saint by comparison and of course timing by their standards would put even Timex to shame. Here am assuming Timex keeps decent time. Day 2: wake up at 5 (OH MY CRAZY GOD IN HEAVEN) and by 6 off to some place by foot - where we spend the rest of the day doing rock climbing. Decent stuff. Pi happy. But it was not to last. Pi realizes he has to sleep in sleeping bags, in tents 8 to a tent and do the second greatest job in the world (called shitting) by going into the dense jungle with a bottle all the while hoping the brushing sound nearby is someone else shitting and n...