WReckless Reckers wRecked the Reck..

"Ok guys...roll up your sleeves, untug your shirt and follow me in pairs each maintaining four yards between...and do Walk like KINGS!!!"
"ok sir"

Eleven of us meekly follow the instructions-shocked.

The one assuming the role of our instructor is our technical father,31 years OLD- a GMC Nagpur MBBS fourth year dropped-out(thrown out), caught getting messy with the GMC director's son-a junior there, managed to get through into RECK therafter...

Hostel no.4 is where we land up-in one of our technical granfather's room- a single bed room, now occupying eleven of us and eleven of them-our seniors..Could almost feel my heart in my mouth as i and the others wait for the inevitable, foolishly hoping not to happen...

The usual questions start but the fun part's missing today,somehow. There's seriouness and heaviness, rather an artificial rudeness in their voice..

And it seems we were making too many mistakes today or did they make us feel that??????

And mistakes we did make under pressure, ofcourse- Nagu forgot my hometown zip code, dicky forgot Jalu's brother's name, I took too much time blurting out gaurav's hobbies...These were things which we were supposed to remember by heart and be ready to blurt out at any given moment of our existence.

Any smallest error was an indication of disrespect to the Mahagang rules and the rulers-the seniors..

The moment a junior commits a mistake he's ordered to "become a reck chair"."Becoming a reck chair" means assuming the posture of an imaginary chair, squatting on the floor with hands stretched on either sides..An extremely uncomfortable position.

Affected areas include toes,calf,knee, thighs and spine(Still shudder to recall those mornings following such sessions, when visiting the lavatory used to be the most difficult and painful of our daily chores,using the water pipe as support to relieve the pain in the knees)

Five minutes...seven minutes..twelve minutes is the maximum that a normal person can withstand the pain accompanying this reck chair state..Some stand up to stretch while a few fall down unable to bear...which amount to further disrespect to the senior commands and hence higher grades of punishment - punishments resulting in high levels of concentrated impact on the most sensitive visible part of the human anatomy, the face - "one tight slap" from each of the eleven seniors...(..to be continued)

Glossary
RECK- Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra (now NIT kurukshetra)
RECKER- student from RECK known as in the whole of Haryana & Punjab
Khokha- a mini dhaba-open till late in night
Jugad- jack,connection,eatables brought from home
Mahagang- Maharshtra quota students group in RECK
KP- Kale pilley (black pups) referred by haryanvi students to all other state students
Technical father- Second year male senior
Technical mother- Second year female senior