The Corleone Family

Being in either a school or a hostel has a few forms of criteria attached to it! Each obviously different from the other. But one universal criteria that every student must fulfill is the criteria of "Family" or in simpler terms the criteria of cliques. In movies coming from the west, we see cliques such as "Jocks"(brawny bullies), "Geeks"(those who wear rubber thumb-caps so they can turn the pages faster in an encyclopaedia), "Techie's"(who download a truckload and never use neither share any of it), "Druggies"(need I even explain?) and finally "Preps"(who socialize well, spend well and score at an above-average level). Some schools in India have groups like these as well. And of course my hostel is no exception. As usual, in the beginning we were all friends. We hung out with everyone and had fun with everyone and anyone. Two months down the line, we started being with people we really want to be with and the groups started being formed. As of now I can roughly estimate four groups in existence at my hostel. Surprisingly it took only 3 months for these groups to be formed. And now after 7 months, we can't live without our group members.

However the question that used to itch at the back of my mind was whether we really were the best or if we just thought we were the best. After all, every group may just consider themselves as the best group of the hostel. True we had our batch of members who were different from each other by leaps and bounds. One loves his share of english music while the other adores bhojpuri music and plays hindi songs which I haven't even heard of. The only thing they share is their love for a punch-up. Then there's the "druggie" who's 'tried that' and 'had it' and the quite Bihari who just doesn't know when to give up whether it's a case or a moot. The only thing these two share in common is their love for being single and their intention of staying that way with no commitments or as they prefer to call it, "torture". Then you have the gamer who challenges my knowledge of softwares and is ready to take me on in any existing game and keeps himself equipped with an arsenal of entertainment against which even my 5 GB stack isn't of much value. And of course there's the Jat with the itchy hand who can't go 5 seconds without whacking someone and always makes us a party to his flowery vocabulary while there's the romantic who sleeps with a stuffed toy (which was a birthday gift from you-know-who) but always has his say in every matter and won't stand for any disrespect shown to any member of the group. In fact, come to think of it, our group IS unique. We've had our problems and issues but the truth is that we're ready to do what it takes for our comrades and we stand tall and stand strong. Our motive is simply 'fun'. And you can trust us to go to any extent to achieve our goal. So you could say that among the 4 Great Italian-American families that existed in the 1950's, we're the Corleone's and we wont have any Tattaglia's or Barzini's coming for the next 5 years. And you can deduce for yourself who's who from the image above. Just remember the dashing guy in green with the shades is yours truly.