C-Sickness X-humed

Exhume /eks"hju:m/ /eg"zu:m/ verb [T] to dig up for reburial.

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Behold. Beware. Its that turn of the fate again. The monsters have woken up from their cocoons. The cobwebs have been gotten rid of. The swords have been sharpened. The soothsayers are wary. The chroniclers are ready. The battlefield is set. All it needs is blood. And there will be blood.

February 19, 2010. The deadliest, the fiercest, and honestly the grooviest battle will commence. Its a 35-year old tradition - the XL-IIMC Sports Meet. For the uninitiated, it is the most awaited event of the year where the only rule is: "There are no rules". Where pinching the bums of the players are as much allowed as flashing the manhood in frustration. Yes, the latter has been the talk-of-the-towns since it happened. A couple of ignorant out-of-line females who dared to challenge the endowment of a young man were proved wrong with immediate evidence by an act of the mighty - "flashing".

For the never-walked-out-of-the-couch, XLRI-Jamshedpur and IIM-Calcutta are two of the most hallowed institutes across the country where we also learn business management. Thanks to the potentially explosive but perennially idle and available grey matter on campus, these are some of the T-shirt quotes that adorned the mighty XLers in the past:

• Only XLence matters. The rest is IIMmaterial.
• 3 decades. 2 B-Schools. Both try. One XLs.
• 60 miles above C level
• CAL-i-fornication

The list is endless. Well, to be fair to the Chussus, they did try to put their best foot forward. But its just not in them. The poor sods with their slogged and spent asses are already like living zombies. In their crammed schedules that involve 21 hours a day of Microsoft eXceLing, they could come up with slogans like:

• C is constant. X is unknown.

Awwwww!! Poor souls! All I can compare them is to Ashish Nehra and the look he gives to the batsmen after each wide that he bowls - the look that intends to offend but ends up amusing.

For the IIMC-IIM B meet, the JOKArs did try to go through their colossal database of research papers they're proud of. (We're proud of the colossal database of movies on our server, by the way). And thus they came up with something bordering on Ishant Sharma - a notch above Ashish Nehra.

• And we thought there could B no worse than XL.

And immediately below was written "IIM Calcutta". Aaarrghhh!!

The pitiable male cherubs can't even come up with foul swearing. That too, has been relegated to the females. Kindly type "IIMC XLRI Swearing Scandal" in the Youtube search box and witness a shameful exhibition of un-feminity.

Well, to each his own. We'll keep on being the ones with the bigger heart. As Anil Kumble once remarked, "Only one team played in the spirit of the game." We'll gladly be that team.

Let the graves be dug. Again. Let the weak be tamed. Again. Let the show begin. Again.

Because...any sport elsewhere needs just one ball!!!

P.S. Yours truly is not in the cricket team. *Gulp*