The Ghost of Vikas

THE GHOST OF VIKAS

This Is A Real Life Incident,Funny.

This took Place At Our Hostel In Vishakapatnam, During 2001 – 2003,I Was Doing My 11th And 12th From A College Cum Hostel Called VIKAS in Andhra Pradesh, Which Specializes In Preparing Students For IIT JEE And AIEEE

So one of my roomies (Santosh P) got a rubber mask ,a real scary one to the hostel…In the night ,Rohit, Pravash,
Santosh and Lala ( all my roomies) were roaming around  the hostel with the rubber mask (For no particular reason) and a shawl (it was cold)…

We were around the toilet when some thing evil crept up lala‘s mind , lala wore that mask and that shawl and approached a guy (our junior to be precise) who was peeing….lala goes up to him and says…”babu aido rupailo evvu” (Babu gimme 5 rupees in telugu)

Lala by the way is an awesome actor and has had some hands on experience in acting (He used to do Ram Lela  in his village)

That half asleep junior looked back to see all the demon stories told by his mother,grand mother,grandfather,girl friend come true ….and that too while peeing  some 1000 miles away from home.He did not even zip his pants and ran like it was the end of the world, howling screaming,crying,waving his hands like a bird so that he could fly far far away form here (Forrest Gump any one?) gasping for breath,it was like I could see all the human emotions in an instant , and the best part he was peeing while he was running.Surely he slipped on his own pee and fell on his own pee. I think he hurt his weener too.

Me and my gang just could not stop laughing,no one was exactly quite sure what they were laughing at,for i was sincerely laughing at lala’s acting,They rest were laughing by seeing a man run for his life while peeing (You don’t get to see this very often….DO YOU? )

We got the fun of this, we stopped sleeping at night and began hunting.We continued doing this for another Two and a half weeks,Every new person was a different experience with a different expression.We were totally secular in our hunt it did not matter if the person was from Bihar, Jharkhad, Orrissa,Andra Pradesh,Mars(we had a doubt that some of the students were aliens………….turned out that they too were scared of the old man begging for 5 rupees ), Black,blue, purple,Hindu, Muslim or Christian .

My sincere apologies to all the people who ran with their wienies half frozen,wagging and peeing all at the same time. (Look on the bright side..you got one heck of a story to tell to your children and grand children….if you have any…Fingers crossed!!!)

We spared no one….not even our own batch members,Revenge was never this sweet.

Within two weeks we got to hear all kinds of stories about the “Ghost of Vikas”.

My personal favorite was this one.

“Long long time ago,this land (the one on which the hostel was built on)  was owned by an old man who had only one daughter,but the owner of this college raped his daughter and killed the old man to occupy this land…Now the ghost of the old man has returned as it wants to perform the last rites his daughter and is asking for funds from the children of the college”

Now the owner of that college was a 80 year old  man who could hardly walk with out the help of his stick….forget about rape.

Finally the rumor of the ghost was so wide spread that children stopped going to the toilets at night, instead used to wet their beds (rather wet and smelly than dead), however some were clever enough to keep a plastic bottle.  Kudos dudes!!

Well this became a wide spread phenomenon,Some children started seeing  the ghost of Vikas in the day also…..talk about imagination!!.The principal could not ignore this any more he had to take some action,he was facing the heat from all the direction,children,parents,lectures and even from the owner of the college (The cops came to investigate exactly how he brought this land, was there really a old man before the hostel was built?? )

The wardens were kept awake with sticks in their hand to scare the ghosts away (ya, the ghost is afraid of a stick!!,get real dudes,carry a cross or a swastik like the one in Dracula or Evil Dead),One night lala gave a glimpse  of the ghost to the warden and that was the end of warden patrolling.

When warden also complained  about the “ghost of vikas”, principle for a minute thought he needed a Divine intervention in this regard.A havan was ordered to remove all the bad spirits from the college (huh!), For a moment all five of us lost faith in God (Rather increased our faith in the devil)

That night the devil had stuck with vengeance,”The ghost of vikas” stopped prowling in the bathroom,instead he went banging from door to door and begging for “Aido rupailo” (5 Rupees)

Our principal was smart man, he had a suspicion that we were the culprits,he decided to check our room.The infamous (315)…there were 8 beds there and only 5 people living (we chucked out the remaining 3).It was legal for the principal to conduct random checking of any room in our hostel.

Yours truely,

Tejaswy Appalla
Matha Rohit Varun
Pravash Kumar Samant Rai

Top hitlisters.”If anything goes wrong in the hostel or the college,catch them first”

We always enjoyed the lime light.

Our room was a mess as usual, the three beds were piles of dump,rather three mountain ranges,the Himalayas,the Alps and the Andes.

It came down to this
5 of us,

1 principal

and 6 wardens to protect the principal from “the ghost of vikas” (Yeah rite!!)

The wardens were to check the room and the principal was to question us.

The wardens were all out for revenge,even an income tax inspector would be a bit polite,The wardens did not actually have an idea on what to look for,they just knew there was something in this room which was pushing the children of the hostel to two extremes, Either to an atheist or a  priest.They took the moral responsibility to restore the equilibrium and try to make them into engineering candidates.

The principal began questioning about the “Ghost of Vikas”, Lala again hogged all the lime light here,he began crying and saying that it has been a week since he had been to the toilet at night, he was using a plastic bottle instead,he took out an empty plastic bottle and began waving it at the principals face, I swear Lala could have won an Oscar for this.We were biting our tongues just to  stop laughing.The principal out of pure plain disgust stopped asking any more questions.(He was afraid what I would take out in my defense.)

In the mean while the whole hostel was trying to  catch a glimpse of the action,children peeking through corridors,windows and key holes.

The checking ended, All the mountains were eroded to make them into plains.Suddenly the room looked so different. It looked like a room rather than a dumpster,”So this is how the room used to look like before we moved in” we thought

The warden came with a list of all illegal things in our room

Given below is a detail of the articles seized

1.The biggest stash of porn in the hostel …more than all the porn seized from all the students together in one year.
2.9 Walkman
3.20 cassettes
4.3 Mobiles ( Santosh p, you rock man)
5.Biology,Zoology,Botany and AIIMS books (The whole campus was a pre engineering  campus,I really don’t know how they came there)
6.7 heater (For Maggie yaar)
7.10 Plates,50 spoons,and a frying pan (We  stole them from the hostel mess)
8.A full cricket set along with 6 wickets
9.Golf balls (No idea how they came there )
10.Crackers ( Diwali left overs)
11.Dumbles ( To break open walnuts)

Man after seeing those Biology books our Principal really lost it , He knew that it was us who were the brains of the “Ghost of Vikas” but had no proof…thanks to Santosh P, who hid the mask  somewhere (Ahem…!!)

The Principal  was so damn pissed but there was nothing he could do.He ordered the warden to bring some empty boxes and to put all the illegal items for safe keeping (They  give it back after we pass out) Put a seal on it and take it out.

He gave a stern warning that he knows that we were the guys behind the “Ghost of Vikas” and he would catch us some day and rusticate us (..Yerra rascala…….Tollywood style).Before he could finish his sentence Lala jumped in like Mithun (“yiye…..apun ka naam heera” Bollywood style) and started to say some thing in his English cum Oriya cum Telugu and began waving his precious bottle (my precious……my precious……),the principal said no more and left.After the principal left we just fell on the floor laughing,our tummies hurt so bad that nite ,the whole nite we kept on giggling and laughing.

Recently I met a guy who is staying in the same room as I was , 315, He was telling me that there are still instances of the ghost being spotted in the toilet,but this time asking for 50 rupees (Inflation huh!),I just couldn’t help laughing and spilling the beans about it,But he just would not believe me that it was us who planted the ghost there.The “ghost of vikas” lives on.

Its been 5 years now since we passed out of  12th,all 5 of us have now completed our engineering,some employed,some are going for further studies,some are about to get married(the old man’s raped daughter, remember).But no matter what we still call each other in the middle of the night and say “babu aido rupiyalo evvu” (Babu give me 5 rupees)

You Only find ghosts in your mind,The next time you feel afraid of a ghost(or a old man begging for “aido rupaiylo”")  just think of this story and you will find all your fears melt away and a pleasant (Wicked) smile on your face

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