Raju ban gaya lecturer !

Yes, you heard it right! I am now a lecturer at SJCE. Sounds funny? Well, a lot of my buddies feel so. They cannot imagine me teaching. Nor could I before. 

Spiderman's uncle(am poor at remembering phirangi names)  says "With great power comes great responsibility". An obvious corollary is "Responsibility takes away thy freedom". I cannot sit on the steps of Yampa, the milk parlour where I spent most part of my student life at college. I cannot put on a cool T-shirt. I cannot speak my mind. I cannot wear a bata hawai chapli. I cannot bunk classes. I cannot enter the class late, and if I make that mistake, I will be entering an empty class room . The list of cant's goes on and on. :(

But I have changed. I have a soft corner for all my Gurujis who are my colleagues now. Especially the ones who were liberal in giving mark and during internal assessments as well. During the internals, I can see myself in the last benchers who keep looking at me every now and then, and their wide, tense eyes says it all! I seem to have learnt a bit of the art of telepathy, and I can read them telling me "sir, please don't look at us, show mercy, do not disturb us in this knowledge transfer!". A while later, the last few minutes, and they seem to be cursing me for my persistence. 

This is not all. Every student  wishes me every time I meet him/her. This frequency and the benevolence on their faces increases after every internals, because they hope against hopes that this will influence my evaluation of their blue books and offset the damage that I have already caused before. 

The theme of discussions with colleagues always revolves around one single topic, politics. No, they are not bothered about predicting the Kashmir polls or the problems with coalition politics. It is all about campus politics. About who does what, who is close to who etc.  And I give a patient hearing, nodding my head at all times in all directions to make them happy. 

An interesting phase of my second profession. Enjoying every bit of it. Except for the thin pay slip at the month end!!