Life just like that - IV

If you are really free with nothing to do, if you are alone at your home, if you do not have electricity at home, if it's raining and you too feel nostalgic at home like I do, if you have a data card with you, if you still remember the password of your first email account, then do check that account and recollect those old emails. I am sure it would make you feel warm at heart after a very long time. I just had one of those magical experiences today

    A few years ago there used to be a portal called rediff.com and every mortal Indian used to have an account with it. But slowly with the advent of the gmails , orkut and facebooks of the e-world rediff somehow effaced out of context. Interestingly if one compared the UI of the yesteryear's Rediff and the current one one could markedly see that the login box which was so prominent is replaced by a sign in button on the extreme right corner. Probably they too realized that they could not compete with the googles of the world and emails went out of context.

So today out of nowhere I suddenly realized that I had a rediff account too , I enthusiastically explored my old account. And hoping across the emails I found mails written by me to my father and his reply to those emails. I have just copy pasted the emails in this forum. While reading them just remember that I was 18 , had an absolutely shit writing speed and I wrote those emails in the comp of the person who brought the first computer in our batch and there was always 10 people on queue to jump over to his computer.

 

hello baba,

 i am very well over here . i did not need so much of money but any way i will any way need it in the next semester for paying the mess dues . any way baba i have made my reservations done . the price of tickets have increased , it has gone to rs 421 from rs 383 . i have my reservations for 4 th of may . i will reach there by the 5 th . yesterday i had chatted with dada , felt good , and i longed to return back to jsr , but any way i will be reaching back only after 1 month . my mid sem brk ends today . from tomorrow i will be having my regular classes  starting . most of the students are returning after their hloidays , subba has also returned back . i do not think that i have any thing more to say ........

bye........

i spend holi well

bubai

If you smugly smiled at the last email read the mail below .

hello  baba,
i have submitted the form for booking the guest house for 2 rd and 24 th..   i could do fopr more days as we can book for 2 days only..   any way the room costs rs 260…..   and i made single room 2 b le b ed  any way they were saying that we   may not get also… as sopme professors are abt to visit iit…..   any way tell me when are u returning so that i ur way back also…. i can book the guest house…   topmorrow is saptami   and guess what i dint know it also…   actually saptami here has no special significance..   any bye….  i dont think that i have more to say
  bubai

I really do not understand why I committed so many spelling mistakes in this email or this was the only way I knew to write emails.

Baba had a classic reply to this email

Hello beta
Here's wishing you and  your friends a very Happy and Blissful Vijayadashami. May Goddess Durga bless  you with Peace & Prosperity in life and fulfil all your  wishes.I received your e-mail but i could not understand what you have written, you should check spelling etc., before mailing.book the guest house for 23rd oct and 29 oct positively.
rest is ok
Baba

Reading those email I longed to be 18 again and spend my first year at IIT back again. If you look back now, those illogical emails sound so much more logical now. And life would not have been bad if we had not turned so web savvy or perhaps life had just remained like that !!