I'll miss my stranger

......its been almost a fortnight since you have gone...and it seems almost like an eternity since i last chatted with you.......you're such a **@#$#^&%^ u know.....taking off like that...without even saying a final goodbye....now who the heck do you think is gonna call me porky....yeah i know you're there somewhere...watching my every move...reading this and laughing your ass off and getting senti at the same time......saying "tu toh bahut frustu hai boss"'........

~~~~i'll miss you dufus~~~~

i write this post to commemorate my dear dear friend Aishvarya...who passed away on the unfateful night of 09/09/09....he died due to an asthma attack....a death which could have been very well prevented if not for the unkempt status of JNU, the university where he studied....JNU was his dream...a dream that cost him his life.....a dream that he could not live.....i feel our late mentor Jawaharlal Nehru would be dissapointed if not disgusted to have such a pathetically disorganized institution in his namesake.......this world has lost an ace engineer...a gem of a person....a genius in the true sense of the word....and i have lost one of my best friends.....a loss too deep to be put down in words...in the strictest sense of the term, he was a "stranger" to me...having never met him niether talked to him....but the 5 years of occasional chatting online had developed a bond strong enough to bring tears to my eyes at the very thought of not hearing from him again.....a fact which i still haven't been able to reconcile with.....i've learnt a lot from him.....things which may sound immaterial...but are precious to me........now that he is gone, its only those fond memories which i can keep alive and cherish forever........if i could say my last words to him.....i'd thank him for the innumerous times he has been my confidant, my advisor, my jester, my buddy and my dufus...........
In his memory....I'd like to quote the lyrics of one of his favourite songs.....

And when I'm gone, just carry on, don't mourn
Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice
Just know that I'm looking down on you smiling
And I didn't feel a thing, So baby don't feel no pain
Just smile back...