Food...

Kaushik was very fond of food like many of us are. I think hostelites become foodies because they are deprived of good food and consequently you start appreciating good food and miss your home food very much. Finally you start liking home food - period and normally do not have any strong choices left. So before you join a hostel bahut NAKHRE rehte hai but after having spent ages in a hostel you become an "ideal" person (as far as food is concerned ONLY) for your MOM and in future for the wives!!
We used to literally freak out on food. We always got up hungry (we had a very bad substandard mess attached to the hostel) and went to Pundlik's chai shop. There we used to have steaming samosas and cut chai. Oh man it used to feel so heavenly. So obviously we skipped lunch and went to college. And obviously we felt hungry again. So we went to Bandu's canteen and gorged on dahi kachoris and dahi samosa's AGAIN.
Our lunch and dinner bill was always LOWER than our samosa's and kachori's bill...medically not good but those were the days of gay abandon and this common LIKE brought us closer...
Many day scholars invited us to their homes Shyam, Ajit, Ravi Anna to name a few Many brought packed food for Kaushik - normally his class friends (girls mostly!! for he was a popular guy and more so amongst the fairer sex) and we both nomally shared the spoils...

Laughter

He had this habit of laughing very very HARD..so much so that it was uncontrollable and he used to be gasping for breath at the end of it and literally screamed to stop making him laugh.
And the effect was just the opposite - people around used to laugh madly, seeing him laugh with so much abandon.

It was our favorite passtime to make him laugh....and laugh with him....like mad guys!!

Kaushik's photography...

Our Kaushik was a damn good photographer I guess - never got to talk to him about it. But when I did a search on the web I came up with this site which I think contains photos taken by him. Real good ones.

http://kbimagez.com/

At Mulshi Pune 2007

May the memories of Kaushik never fade....

Where ever you are I am sure the place is resonating with your laughter

Not to mention the innumerable pranks which must be churning in your head thereafter

Entertain all with the strum of your guitar and your sudden bout of abandoned singing

Make sure that a huge stock of food keeps on coming

We had many a things left to do on this earth together

So WHY Kaushik Why did you leave us all alone in this grey weather?