Lets Chat...

Almost towards the end of the day i receive a call from M. He says, lets plan a group chat tomorrow as there's no college ( probably he assumed we would have nothing better to do on this forced holiday ). As most maverick things do, even this thing did spread pretty fast and gained momentum. I told L and V ( he never turned up, guess we don't intellectually stimulate him ) and left it at that for the day and retired...

Next morning i did take the lead of implementing the idea, a decision that dint take much time to get questioned later on by my intellect. I informed L and so charged he was that he invited the rest of them ( i dint expect that wide a variety of guests ). So we had L to begin with, R joined us, then T than S the two surprise elements R2 and N came along even as L cordially invited everyone. I felt like his only daughter was getting married. Somewhere amidst all this chaos M the creator of this highly "successful" plan stepped on to the red carpet accompanied by some really abominable sounds that were perceived by different people in different ways... a few not fit to state before a family audience.

What followed next were some pale and lackluster attempts by the two men who had taken charge to enliven the morning for everyone ( a good coffee would have sufficed someone felt ).
But i fully applaud the efforts of M and L who thought if getting the group together. As the conversation slowly moved from one pointless banter to another, in a desperate search for some "spicing it up" our budding journalists much to my aghast did the obvious. They began to probe into the personal relationships of others and the only thing missing were the tags of "Breaking News" or Exclusive... only on this channel". At this point one of the more busy body members finally decided to take leave and started a parallel conversation with me at the futility of the on going conversation.

Kudos to M as he tried everything in his kitty to keep the conversation buoyant but the interest of the members was slowly waning away and there began a series of personal digs at various members of the group. S kept silent all through this hungama, she never liked words uttered in futility. I knew what she was going through and finally as was expected, she begged to excuse herself and left. The act caught like influenza and slowly T wanted to leave too which meant that R2 would follow suit soon. I think i rejoined the chat room at this point and saw that this effort by M was really going nowhere. I felt bad for him, but he sure needs no one's sympathies. I felt no one was really listening to L and all people wanted to do was snub him... The chat turned into personal digs embarrassing R and this time she went into hiding for sometime... T left, R2 ditto, not able to see the pile of cards fall away like this M too left uttering something that meant we were all supposed to make it up to him. i was once again left with L and R. the conversation for the first time moved to something concrete . About how to beat the bandh and get L's dad home ( i hope everything works out well ). An abrupt break from L caused me to fret...

Mobile buzzed. L : Hey power cut... I got disconnected man...

I signed off...