After having successfully introduced ya'll to Kottaram's first classmate, its time to introduce you to the rest of his classmates ... :-))
Kottaram hails from one of the most affluent families in trivandram. He belonged to the house of Kowdiar. He had the royal blood in him. Along with the blood, came the gift of the gab - which we can't stop raving about, but that's a story for another post!!
Kottaram spent most of his formative years in Delhi - where he spent time with his family members and went to school and college.
School happened to be very traumatic experience considering that he was a person of royal lineage and there were security risks associated with sending a royal kid to school along with mere mortals.
So thus came a gentle admission from Kottaram that most of his schooling was done in THE DOON School!
Just to give you everyone a small brief regarding the doon school - it still continues to be the favourite destination for all the politicos, army men, coporate bigwigs to send their kids to Doon school to give a gentle formation to their years ahead in life.
Kottaram as modest as he was gently reminded us that he studies with the likes of Rahul Gandhi, Sachin Pilot and Jyothiradtiya Scindia.
Sachin and Scindia happened to be very close to Kottaram and to this day also stay in touch with them .....
So while more people were getting added to the now-famous Illichavayans list, a lot more tales of friendship and brotherhood were being spawned out by Kottaram.
With the list of celebrities and personalities growing at a steady pace, keep watching this space for more tales .... the more the merrier!!
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Classmates!!!!
Welcome back!
Just recalled another interesting occurance from the "tales of Kottaram" repository! :-)
This one dates back to the good 'ol 80's and requires as much patience as the ability to keep a straight face while reading this.
Ok. where do I start?
It was around 2 months after Kottaram joined the workplace and spent around the first few months in an unassuming and nondescript existance till one day we got the first peek into Kottaram's colorful life.
Kottaram started his day with replying to a lot of emails and loud conversations on the cell phone.
One conversation went on like this (you might think that there was eavesdropping going on but Kottaram was just plain loud and that's the only truth).
Kottaram [after dispensing with the regular hi and hello's, gets on with ...]: Oh! you're coming down to bangalore?
Kottaram [brief pause..]: good man .. it would be great to meet up ... after a long time.
Kottaram [a very brief pause..]: of course.. I don't know where the tv channel office is .. but we can find out. Call me when you get here. take care.
..And he settled down in his seat to continue with his perusal of his daily emails.
as a very brief time passes by he gets up and pointedly asks his neighbor the question ..
Kottaram: do you know where the Star office is?
Good 'ol Neighbor: No - I don't know.
Nosey Parker Neighbor: Hey - I know where it is. the Star office right, they have something on lavelle road.
Kottaram: can you tell me how to get there? I'll need to drive someone down there in the next few days.
Nosey Parker Neighbor: Sure!! [taking a sheet of pen and paper, proceeds to draw a detailed path of getting to lavelle road]
Kottaram: thanks man .. I'm sure I won't have a problem finding the place.
Nosey Parker Neighbor [turns around... pauses briefly ... and then jumps up to enquire]: why are you going to the Star office? You can't get a job there :-)) [desperatly trying to get some information out of Kottaram..].
Kottaram: oh .. nothing .. my friend is coming down and she wanted to go to the star office. you know ... barkha expects me to take her there and I don't want to tell her .. i don't know where the place is ...
Nosey Parker Neighbor [catches on to the obviously emphasised word and ... ]: Barkha? Barkha who?
Kottaram [in a matter-of-fact way] : Barkha Dutt! Who else?
Nosey Parker Neighbor [doesn't believe the guy but what the heck..? ]: who is barkka dutt ...?
Kottaram [ jaw dropping moment .. ]: man .. you don't know her ... she is the ace tv reporter .. blah blah blah ... kargil .... more blah ... and blah .... yea.. she is awesome..
Nosey Parker Neighbor [not to be outdone ... ]: sure I know barkha Dutt!! I just wasn't sure if we were talking about the same person. [yea right ... like we all don't know .... what you are up to].
Nosey Parker Neigher [Not one to give up and wanting to deflect attention from the fauz paus ventures out with .. ]: how do you know barkha? [we're on first name .. reference aren't we? ]
Kottaram [ with the confidence of a 1000 elephants]: she was my classmate and a good friend ... we all studied at St. stephans - barkha, my wife and I.... all best buddies. she was there for my wedding too..
Nosey Parker Neighbor[ Stunned... momentarily .. but recovers to ask .. ]: umm .. so how come she is your classmate .. you guys don't seem to be of the same age group ..
Kottaram [ not one to be bothered by details .. ]: well .. she was my wife's classmate ... and I got to know her quite well .. during the time i was going around with my wife.
Nosey Parker Neighbor [ gives up now ... ]: wow! nice. would it be possible for me to meet her too .. ?
Kottaram [ comes up with a nice and final touch .. ]: sure ... let her get here ... i'll invite you over for some drinks ...
and there started one of the first few invites and promises for meeting up for drinks with a personality cum classmate.
To this day, no one knows if Kottaram knew Barkha Dutt or Barkha knew his wife, but the confidence with which it was presented laid the foundation for more stories to come .... on the classmates track.
Sure its great to meet a celebrity, its even great to meet someone who knows a celebrity and its even more condescending if you know someone who knows the celebrity's email address!!
:-))
Just recalled another interesting occurance from the "tales of Kottaram" repository! :-)
This one dates back to the good 'ol 80's and requires as much patience as the ability to keep a straight face while reading this.
Ok. where do I start?
It was around 2 months after Kottaram joined the workplace and spent around the first few months in an unassuming and nondescript existance till one day we got the first peek into Kottaram's colorful life.
Kottaram started his day with replying to a lot of emails and loud conversations on the cell phone.
One conversation went on like this (you might think that there was eavesdropping going on but Kottaram was just plain loud and that's the only truth).
Kottaram [after dispensing with the regular hi and hello's, gets on with ...]: Oh! you're coming down to bangalore?
Kottaram [brief pause..]: good man .. it would be great to meet up ... after a long time.
Kottaram [a very brief pause..]: of course.. I don't know where the tv channel office is .. but we can find out. Call me when you get here. take care.
..And he settled down in his seat to continue with his perusal of his daily emails.
as a very brief time passes by he gets up and pointedly asks his neighbor the question ..
Kottaram: do you know where the Star office is?
Good 'ol Neighbor: No - I don't know.
Nosey Parker Neighbor: Hey - I know where it is. the Star office right, they have something on lavelle road.
Kottaram: can you tell me how to get there? I'll need to drive someone down there in the next few days.
Nosey Parker Neighbor: Sure!! [taking a sheet of pen and paper, proceeds to draw a detailed path of getting to lavelle road]
Kottaram: thanks man .. I'm sure I won't have a problem finding the place.
Nosey Parker Neighbor [turns around... pauses briefly ... and then jumps up to enquire]: why are you going to the Star office? You can't get a job there :-)) [desperatly trying to get some information out of Kottaram..].
Kottaram: oh .. nothing .. my friend is coming down and she wanted to go to the star office. you know ... barkha expects me to take her there and I don't want to tell her .. i don't know where the place is ...
Nosey Parker Neighbor [catches on to the obviously emphasised word and ... ]: Barkha? Barkha who?
Kottaram [in a matter-of-fact way] : Barkha Dutt! Who else?
Nosey Parker Neighbor [doesn't believe the guy but what the heck..? ]: who is barkka dutt ...?
Kottaram [ jaw dropping moment .. ]: man .. you don't know her ... she is the ace tv reporter .. blah blah blah ... kargil .... more blah ... and blah .... yea.. she is awesome..
Nosey Parker Neighbor [not to be outdone ... ]: sure I know barkha Dutt!! I just wasn't sure if we were talking about the same person. [yea right ... like we all don't know .... what you are up to].
Nosey Parker Neigher [Not one to give up and wanting to deflect attention from the fauz paus ventures out with .. ]: how do you know barkha? [we're on first name .. reference aren't we? ]
Kottaram [ with the confidence of a 1000 elephants]: she was my classmate and a good friend ... we all studied at St. stephans - barkha, my wife and I.... all best buddies. she was there for my wedding too..
Nosey Parker Neighbor[ Stunned... momentarily .. but recovers to ask .. ]: umm .. so how come she is your classmate .. you guys don't seem to be of the same age group ..
Kottaram [ not one to be bothered by details .. ]: well .. she was my wife's classmate ... and I got to know her quite well .. during the time i was going around with my wife.
Nosey Parker Neighbor [ gives up now ... ]: wow! nice. would it be possible for me to meet her too .. ?
Kottaram [ comes up with a nice and final touch .. ]: sure ... let her get here ... i'll invite you over for some drinks ...
and there started one of the first few invites and promises for meeting up for drinks with a personality cum classmate.
To this day, no one knows if Kottaram knew Barkha Dutt or Barkha knew his wife, but the confidence with which it was presented laid the foundation for more stories to come .... on the classmates track.
Sure its great to meet a celebrity, its even great to meet someone who knows a celebrity and its even more condescending if you know someone who knows the celebrity's email address!!
:-))
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