अक्षय भिडे !!

That I would ever express so much about a person with such an affection, love, mixed feelings.......is what only अक्षय भिडे can expect from me, and had already given consent to express whatever I wish to.....

अक्षय भिडे , a guy I first saw probably in Nov-Dec 2011. भिडे , as I heard his surname, and saw in his grey eyes, at Yogesh Fulpagare's room, first thought that must be an introvert. We sat next to each other, but he didn't speak anything. That was how I first saw him. In following months, Dr. M. S. Tandale introduced us, and he asked, in a typical पुणेरी  style, आपण या आधी कुठेतरी भेटलोय का ?

Yes, I said, and narrated the above incident. This is how we started meeting, loving, living, spending time, eating together, roaming around.........

Had it not been him, it would have been difficult to complete B.Tech, for he provided an immense moral support, which I probably lacked. After Jan 2012, we never spent a day without talking to each other, until May 2013.

We met everyday, worked together in Annual Social Gathering 2012, at Dr. BATU, and this ASG brought us so close that we never parted. I don't remember a single conversation wherein we had a difference in opinion.

This person, whom I should rather be calling sir, was a idealist. But, somehow, didn't pay much attention towards some things which I would better keep undisclosed. अक्षय could play keyboard, guitar, some side instruments quite well I would say, managing good with his M.Tech curriculum. During ASC preparations, we spent time from 8.30am to 12.30am together most of the days. Even after ASC, we kept meeting. We were so sentimental and like thinking, that the day proceedinf ASC, we went to NSS room and said, what next? It feels odd that the program's over. Somehow, we became so close friends, that apart from the days he was out of station, we met daily, that too multiple times. Our mornings started with greeting at EXTC department or canteen. We used to meet again during lunch, then after lectures/practicals. Home became a place to dump my bag, change clothes, so that we could meet again. In the evenings, we ate snacks at वसु , walked several miles, went home, talked and kept talking, we had so much to share, just two of us, so many things to speak, knowing multiple point of views, thinking about how future would be, talking about each others' subjects......Many a times, he left for dinner, had it at Lonere,  and returned back, so that we could spend some more time together.

As time passed, we had actually got addicted to thoughts...I never met a guy who could think like me, with me, predict what I felt unpredictable..Even what I'm writing now, before I wrote,  अक्षय predicted.

In final year, I stayed away from all ASC activities, and अक्षय respected my decision, also, didn't leave. We remained the same. When two dreamers meet, the world looks so beautiful, that no one can ever imagine....We had dinner together several times during our last semester. Even in dinner, we had same taste. We loved sweet dishes. And I doubt if even once our order was changed. We ordered same foods each time we ate- Malai Kofta and two naans or 4 rotis.

Whenever I think why I did engineering at Dr. BATU, I think of अक्षय. May be, it was just a place for us to meet. That we were supposed to meet, destiny got us. In May 2013, अक्षय fell sick, went home. By the time he returned, I got too busy with final year activities like projects and final exams. I left Lonere, we didn't meet, but stayed in contact over phone, till June '13, after which, अक्षय disappeared. 

But finally, 8th March, I got a call, and I felt alive. We decided to meet, no matter how busy we were. I didn't care how taxing it would be, I was prepared to pay anything, any amount of time, money anything......We met on 11th March. It was peaceful sitting on his white TVS Wego, wondering for sometime, watching his new room, spending 2-3 hrs at CCD, and having a dinner with same menu- Malai Kofta and 4 rotis!!

 अक्षय भिडे is probably the best guy I ever met.........That we would continue meeting for the rest of our lives, is what he has promised. And I hope, we keep meeting.........Our lives changed, circumstances changed, our plans failed badly, we changed ourselves to a great extent in an year, but one thing remains same.....our friendship!!

Tuzhi mazhi यारी , भोकात गेली दुन्यादारी !!

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and to add to his skillset, नवाब सध्या violin शिकत आहेत !!