Woh kaun thi !

After many days of procrastination and ultimately being rebuffed by my father,I finally went to Axis bank to sink Rs 2300 and purchase a form of XLRI/XAT.Its a big racket going on yaar... separate forms for xam and college ! Nevertheless,I queued up and came back with the pack.Before dumping it in closet,I decided to give it a look.Usually all such brochures look same.Same 'suited' students,with a 'perfect' confident smile in the backdrop of 'sprawling' campus.All set to become leaders of tomorrow making a positive 'social' impact.The thing which surprised me was the 'sameness' of all the faces in brochures of all colleges.They all appeared to be made from a single mould.I concluded that they can't be real students going about their routine stuff,just some people hired by brochure design agency.

This XLRI brochure seemed no exception; till I came across the face in above photograph.Of all the faces in the brochure,this one seemed to be 'more' familiar than others.I instinctively knew I had seen this face in flesh and blood,not in ink and paper and definitely not in pixels and LCD.The question was where?I scanned my volatile memory but couldn't come to a conclusion...But still...it wasn't a figment of my imagination.I had SEEN the person !

Could it be at office? No..How could somebody in office be on the brochure of XLRI?
Was she at IT-BHU? No...I hardly knew anyone from the fairer species there.....
Somebody at school...Come on...I was at a boy's school.

Ahh....now I remember....the concerned person was a FIITJee batchmate...a very smart student but for inexplicable reasons couldn't clear JEE(can't recall the name though).But she surely seemed to have made up for it now!
Well..along with the memory came pangs of guilt for not giving a genuine shot to anything for a while!

The conclusion....people in brochure are real students...my memory is not really that bad...and time has started when I'll look up in papers/magazines/brochures/TV/News websites/interviews/IPL/movie Item numbers/Election Speeches/Oscar Ceremonies/World Global Warming Summit/United Nations Convention etc and say.."Arrey main isko Jaanta hoon Yaar! Sach main... "