Simple Math

Ya..a….ksss!!     Any guesses what this could be friends?

A reaction of yours when you start jogging one fine morning and suddenly see a man clearing his nose indecently? Or a reaction of your friend who is a vegetarian and suddenly sees a non veg dish served to him by mistake? A joyful excitement in mind of a two days hungry Eskimo or a puma when suddenly seen a group of yaks? A reaction of sixteen years of boy or a girl who suddenly sees a father of her or his on spot on first date? Or a reaction from beautiful girls of our college when they had to dissect a frog first time?  

What the hail is that exactly …..?

Friends, its an alphabet ‘X’ pronounced by our dear math’s teacher Mr. BPJ.  Please strain your memories a little and try to visualize his lecture. I still remember his famous X and the gesture while saying that alphabet. His hands raised in air, fingers of both the palms spreading outwards like a demonstration of Mig or Jaguar planes on 26 th Jan and the facial expressions. Oh god, facial expressions such that if someone removes a snap of those and publish in south then people may ask ‘hey when the film of this hero is going to be released?’ Even I tried to imagine an analogy of a scene when I replaced Rahul Solapurkar with Mr. BPJ saying ‘ X’ instead of ‘ pisss …k’ while casting ‘ Takalu Haiwan’. And while attending his lectures I also thought many times that if mother of ‘X’ sees Mr. BPJ on stage, she might ask him worriedly ‘ mere betene apka kya bigada hai jo aap uske pichhe pade ho ?’

But my dear friends, there were three things I never understood with this guy. First, I never understood why he used to bisect the green board at the very next moment he would enter into the class. Secondly, as soon as he bisects the board into two halves brutally, making our bodies to shiver by that noise of a chalk and glass, he would draw a star in the upper right corner of the board. And to tell you what friends, I remember he could never draw a good, complete star, ever. Rather, I would rate not a single star or even a half star for his star then. Ha Ha Ha…

And the third and the important thing my dear friends. He used to teach us complex number represented by ‘ i’. And root of this small i  is equal to minus one. Great!!

But horrible thing was that whenever he himself gets stuck with some example, he would take the help of this small ‘i’. And then what, he would turn those two halves of board into battlefield and somehow arrive at the answer which he usually used to write in lower right corner of the board. Finding that answer was like finding a needle in the hey. How complex!!

But dear friends, we were so lucky to have Mr. Pethe who could teach the math in a simplified way. That’s the beauty of that subject. If taught in a simple manner, every sum becomes easier. And friends…this applies as good to your life. Your ‘Ayushyache Ganit’ will be easier too, if you try to solve it by simpler formulae.

More on that later friends. Last time I kept writing a little more because I had to keep myself awake to watch the match after a hectic day. Anyway, it’s a whole friendship week ahead and I wish you all to enjoy it like the way we used to enjoy in our college days. Happy friendship day!! And good night.