Press Cart to Go-Karting!

Elvin sitting on the small wall in front of MIC was waiting for his tea form Press Cart when I joined him. I asked him, “Elvin, Go-Karting chalen?” and immediately comes the reply, “nahi bhaiya, naheee. Kangal nahi hona hai.”

“Nahi Elvin chalo na, please chalo race karte hai” and my statement is interrupted to be completed by Randhir, thankfully in my favour: “abe Elvin chal na maza karte hai..” Hearing the discussion, running comes Rahul, and says in a very proud manner with happiness in his eyes: “Chhhaaalo Elvin…hum hain na… hum tumhare liye sponsor karenge…or jeet ke ayenge race.”

And I continued, “Elvin chalo” and he frantically nods his head after hearing this and says while getting up from the wall, kya bhaiya aap hain na TEMPT kar daiten hain…chaliye…race ho jaye!!!”

When we reached the racing venue we were a team which included famous personalities like Randhir, Dharam and our beloved teacher whom we have named “tea-time-press cart-faculty”, Mr. Pratman Sir. He he he … shshshhh……please don’t call him by this name. He might mind it. Will you, Sir?

The veteran racers (don’t know who named them so) Elvin and Rahul asked every one of us before we put on ours helmets whether we had done this before or not. First one to go was Dharam. Rahul asked “ Dharam bhai go-karting kiya hain pehle ya nahi?” Dharam removes his helmet, opens his mouth wide to show his stained teeth and words come out with spit spraying our ears and faces. “Arre tu tensionwa mat lo, eee ka kono baat nahi hai, karting warting kaun sa bada top (cannon) hai, hum to driving tractor se seekhein or truck chalaye hue hai Zhumreetalaya se Raksaul tak…driver bola bhaiya app to bahut hi achcha driving karte hai. And he shouted in happiness…to eee chokti kart ka cheez hai…abhi hum dikhate hai speed…ab dekhna eee ghumayenge, woo ghumayenge…brake lenge, clutch chodenge…or phhir dekho ban gaya na rcord! Dharam on top! Bachchu ham ko kam nahi samjho becaz hum bhi bahut smart haunn…

His kart started but even before we could blink our eyes he rammed into the tires…he said, “array bhai kart to bahut hil raha hai, ekdum tractor ka feel aa raha hai…tyre me bhi dam kam nahi hai…hum to soche short cut lete hain…again one more accident and the owner of the go carting said,” Aey cart chalane nahin denge… four laps were reduced to two for not causing any accident on the track any more which could prove dangerous for both cart and Dharam.

He removes his helmet to show us his embarrassed face and to save himself he says, “arey humko to pata hi nahi that ee to bachcha ka khel hai…eee sab humko pasand nahi hai…ghar par tractarwe achacha hai…and we all started laughing.

Finally the race was over with few bruises on our bodies. We felt thirsty, so we came to Press Cart again and asked for cold drinks. But to our surprise, press cart had never sold cold drinks. So we drank tea. No option for anything else!
So here we start our famous Press Cart discussions. We IMAGINED how our faculties will react after knowing that we went for go-carting.

Varadesh Sir: Raising his right hand half in the air and bringing it down with a sudden stop he would say picking the word one after another and giving it smooth flow - I mean no traffic of words or no over takings of words by words - would say, “Yes!! We will win... Yes…Journalistic Victory…Yes…”

Nagamallika Ma’am: Arey baba - spinning her right index finger in air making circles - seeeee if you race and you injure yourself then who would be responsible: only you, who will break his teeth: only you…

Buroshiva Sir: I am thinnnnki nnn ggg off, ifff ifff we can make a go-karting track in our campus… so that you don’t have to go so far!

Sunil Sir: Kya re…Phir Se race karega??!! Ghodagadi kabhi chalaya hai? Zamin se judo. Paisa barbad mat karo race wace me…banki to tum log jano…

Kushal Sir: In fact Reuters has asked me to drive their kart… but I asked them…then who will drive Ferrari??

Prathamesh Sir: I once drove a kart to Bangalore!!

Mclemore Sir: Ah! kartin…I like it!! I like it!!!

Prof. Iyengar: Ah bitte…Were there any German babes on the tracks?! Once I did on go carting with a german girl by just giving a red rose. It was, bitte, aha, very fantastic…we completed our laps…just took more time…you know I am like this only…

Maya Ma’am: You do whatever you want…but make sure that the tracks are ISO certified!!! It is for your safety. Real concern for quality and safety

M.V. Kamath Sir: His reaction is too long to be written over here… when in 1947 things were not like this…anyway…someone has to be spared!

K.P. Rao Sir: In fact, I invented the “Simultaneous Fuel Injection, Minimum Consumption Maximum Combustion, Safe Destruction of Wastes and Efficient Performance of the Engine” Technology!!

Harish Sir: He looked into the sky and after some silent moments looked into my eyes…and asked: yoouuuuuu geeeeeee (UG)…peeeeeeee geeeeeee (PG)….

Shubha ma’am: Don’t go to go carting during monsoon season, tracks are slippery like rough Arabian Sea. What does this mean ma’am? I was just giving suggestion, but… anyway, everything is subjective and relative!

Note: If anyone got hurt, Elvin Jacob, MSCOMM 1st Year should be forgiven for he has written it with good intetntion - to show good intention, Elvin said, " U.S scientists are developing a software which can tell readers how much of good intention was kept in mind while writing the story - and has utmost respect for his faculties.