ADIES STORY-I

(The writer graduated from Silchar Medical College in 1986-87 & now practising in a reknowned hospital in USA.He sent us the following story of his time in SMCH, which will be subsequently followed by more interesting ,exciting relevations of his days in SMCH & will be published in SCINTILLANS in coming days.He chooses to be annonymous and he is posting his story under the pen name"ADIE" -Editor

"Hi, Partha, took your advice created a gmail account just to add some bytes to the SMC blog. This is indeed a very useful endeavour and I must congratulate you for your hard work to pull SMC up to the 21st century. As you could probbly tell that I graduated out of SMC in 1986-87 and since then moved on with life. I am currently in the US and in the best medical institution of the world. Have achieved whatever I wished for in life. However, one aspect bothers me a lot- could not do much for our Alma mater. So may be we could share some old stories, some fun amd and also, some probably unnecessary advice for you guys who has a full life ahead. A story that probably does not need to be told. But who cares so long the bliss of anonymity exists!
I will tell my story in parts and pieces: put that in the blog; May be with a title 'Adies story"-Adie)



1981 was a hot summer. I passed out of the local college with good marks but was very frustrated and discredited in my own image for not being able to secure a position in the pre-university exams. Although my innate weakness in Math contributed a lot to that I squarely blamed it on the Assam agitation which devoured one year of my life without any achievement. So many of us gave to the leaders of AASU and AGP one year of our valuable life but achieved so little. So I was frustrated, looking for a career but not sure what to do. I enrolled in a REC in West Bengal but that did not work out - was about to board a train to Dhanbad to get in to the Indian school of Mines but my omniscient uncle deflated the urge - he did predict way out at that time the Petroleum engineering is a dying science and i could not envision myself hunting for black gold in the recess of deep mine.. So after all the options of going to a technical college gradually went away - I realized with much dismay that I am stuck to SMC, the local medical college that did not even count in my top 20 career choices. I remember the day of the interview - I gave the interview at GMC and the panel asked why do I want to go to SMC. Although I wanted to answer them that I really do not want to go to SMC, the Principal of SMC volunteered saying that that was because Silchar was my hometown.

So there I was in SMC. I remember walking off the city bus in a maroon bell-bottom pant and check shirt on a warm October day morning and walking in to the SMC campus with the newly stitched white apron tucked under my elbow - very uncertain and quite reluctant. Eventually we were led on to meet the famed Laskarda who did a give a small introductory speech and eventually we were led in to the library. A gr op of girls and boys were all huddled there , doing their paperwork. There was a dominant group of few girls from Shillong with their westernized English accent that made rest of us a little nervous. I did find few local boys from the GC college and stuck to them mostly. Later we went to the Anatomy department in hostel II with all the inmates leering at us and making some stupid comments. Although girls were their main target many of them did not have the courage to really do anything to the girls so we rapidly became the innocent by-standers. I was pulled in to a room in hostel I where one long-standing dada was becoming a little virulent. So when I casually mentioned that I am a local boy and have my own 'adda' in Prem Tola he immediately backed off and started asking me about girl contacts in the city. I had none but pretended to be the exact opposite way and we someway became friends. By the third day, I was evolving to be the local group leader and started ragging our own batch-mates in not so subtle way and by the fifth day was bold enough to approach the girls from Shillong........ contd.