alvida arun

the first time arun opened his mouth in class it was about how some people are centre left, centre right or extreme left and extreme right......at the end of it one knew arun was always right. politicially that is. he had this knack to provoke people, smile and watch the calmest of them go stark raving mad.

he made MJ utter the F#*# word when he was justifying Godhra and the carnage. he also had the soft spoken salman khan meets ajay devgan flatmate of ours furiously screaming at him because arun had the audacity to say that 'India Shining' included 92% of Indian households having access to a television.

now my first reaction was that we had a hardcore hindu fanatic in our midst. i realized soon that he was passionate about almost everything politics (he's a super psepologist in the making), sport (he was part of the sports quiz winning team), economics and numbers (a CA at 23), singing (he sucks) and off late fitness (he's seemingly in shape)

he hated sainath until sainath told him very sweetly that he's going to make a super journo, he'd almost blush whenever sainath was mentioned after that. though he kept saying that there were holes in his stories.

rahul and him shared a special relationship....arun loved irritating him... and their interactions almost bordered on violence.....it was good old bonhomie...
his favourite song went from 'hum doon soniyo re' to 'my love dont cost a thing'

us flatmates also had a mating ritual to demonstrate our closeness..it's been captured on camera...good fun that..the politics elective threw up some intense interactions between krishna ananth and giri. arun sifted through hazaar books to prove a point to krishna.

giri was a little boy at heart... a boy who could't heat water with the coffee maker....who could'nt iron a shirt , fold clothes or wash them.
before the CNBC interview arun was running a high temperature, his palms were cold and sweaty. he seemed quiet and subdued. he later explained that this was his idea of getting into a zone. he got the job and the biggest pay packet of the college.

the tam-bram is doing allright.
he will be missed sorely........maybe his singing wont.

goodbye arun giri (CA, PGDJ)