My "connection"with IIT-D

The date 26th December and 27th December have been really special for me. Apart from the fact that its Christmas time and I was busy in all sorts of activities, it marked the birthdays of my Munh bola bhai, Pradyot) and munh boli sister, Kiddo [Who unfortunately has bid farewell to the blog world] Somehow, I cannot explain the deeper meaning behind these few people with whom I have formed a very different camaraderie. I first met Pradyot on Sayesha's blog. The first thing, that caught my attention was his upside-down picture. Later, I happenned to read his Creative writing section, reading which I thought here is a nerd who is creative as well. Who is realllly young and his occasional posts on Technology, books etc baffled me and somehow deep inside I thought, if ever I had a brother, he would have been this way. Smart and confident. I find him really intelligent and someone who keeps a lot to himself. A kid with stars in his eyes [Sorry for using the word Kid, Prad, but I am sure you wont mind] One day, I confessed to him, that I never had a younger brother and maybe thats why I think about him in this manner. Funny, he started calling me "Tai"[Sister] as well. So as of now, I think I can cooly give any gyaan to him, and he wont say a word to me:D The only person in my life who calls me Tai. I have always been the youngest of all siblings and cousins, so I was the one who addressed my sisters by that name. I have probably chatted online with him thrice, exchanged emails not more than 20 times and talked on the phone once on his birthday for 3 minutes. Later, this string of connections started forming beyond blog circle. I accidentally hopped to this post on Nitin's blog and was amazed to see yet another IIT-ian with a panache for writing stuff, about love and romance. In blog circles, I have found very few guys who actually touch on the topic of love, relationship in a romantic and a beautiful manner. Nitin is one amongst them. With him, its friendship on a different level. All of 21 too, this guy also became my brother. The only guy who took a long time to figure out how to address me. Finally he started calling me "Di" On his blog, I met Kiddo. I hopped to Kiddo's blogs whenever, I felt like reading some real good poetry. She has the ability to give any poet a run for their money. Sad, I dont get any opportunity to read her work anymore. She is yet another girl, who is more than 5 years younger to me and thats why I feel even more concerned for her. I have never chatted online with her, never exchange emails and talked to her on the phone once for 1 minute on her birthday. Now she addresses me as "Dids". Funny, she even recognized my voice, when I called her yesterday. So, from there on, I have formed this amazing connection with IIT-D fellas, who all are well connected to each other. And here they have a sister, whom they have never met, probably never chat with and rarely email. Though Kiddo has disconnected herself from the blog world, I meet her on Orkut , a place I never knew existed until Nitin introduced me to. Initially, I thought its just another trendy place in cyberworld. But the meaning of it has changed now. Since, thats the only place where I interact with her and know about her life. Its all in the family now, coz I even have a kid in IIT-D:))) Our blogs are as different as can be, eventhough, there is a commn ground of communication. I am still in the process of figuring out, why you feel the way you feel for some people. Somehow, interacting with these people gives me that happiness of being called a didi. When I talk to them, it makes me feel 5 years younger than I am. I relive my college days with them. We fight, we quarrel, throw tantrums. I feel concerned for them, just like I would if I would have had a younger brother or a sister. I can now understand why my sister feels that way for me and why I am still the 21 year old girl in her eyes. I think, tommorrow even if these kids become CEO of a company, they would still be the Third year and Final year IIT-D kids, whom I met in blogsphere and who are the talented kids on the block. Strange, I have never been to Delhi and never had a friend from IIT-D, and now I have brothers and sisters over there!