August 21, 2007 Part-12 (Contd :) My Early College Life: My early college life brought me various new things. I got experiences to ride in a four wheeler like a bus, a car or a taxi for the first time when I went to college. I had no idea of cinemas. One day my roommate told me to go to GANESH TEMPLE. I said okay and followed him. Ultimately he stopped in front of Ganesh Cinema Hall close to Bahnu Chowk in DHARAN and told me that we were going to the building in front of us to watch a Hindi movie. He bought two tickets and we entered the cinema hall. The movie was “Aparadhi Kaun” (if I remember correctly). I had no idea about heroes and heroines and villains. An almost naked lady was seen on a large screen and a giant man came and kissed her. They slept together. It was terrible! I was desperately waiting for the time to finish the movie. I didn’t understand anything but my friend was telling me that the movie was good. Probably I couldn’t appreciate the movie because I was ignorant of the Hindi language. But the so-called love scenes on the screen were really nonsense to me. Anyway, this was the first experience of any and all kinds of movies in my life. My next experience in my early college life was student politics. There were various groups which were against the Panchyeti Ruling System. Their objective was to overthrow that system and bring a multiparty democratic system in the country. One of the groups inspired me to be involved as a member of that group. I was made a member. We had to meet in some secret places on a weekly or monthly basis. One evening, we were in a meeting in one friend’s room. After the meeting was over, we were dispersed so that no one could suspect on us. But the next morning we came to know that two of our friends were arrested that night. That became a hot news even in the national weekly magazines. After several days, they were set free and they came back to the campus. They told us how they were behaved in the custody. The torture they faced there was really horrible. Their explanation distracted me to remain in that kind of bad game. Therefore, I slowly drifted back and ultimately left any active role from that political group. I never went to student politics again. BECAUSE I was there to study science and become a doctor or an engineer in future so that I could make my family’s dream true. But unfortunately, one another habit caught me aggressively. That was to write literature, especially poetry and sometimes drama or short stories. I was so much engrossed in reading and writing literature that I started giving less time in course studies and more time in writing poems, reciting them in different programs and sending them for publications. I was successful in publishing about half a dozen of poems in local magazines in one year but that made my study weaker. I used to write in traditional Sanskrit Chhanda. I stood third in a campus-wise competition. My Nepali teacher commented in the prize-giving ceremony that my poetry reminded him the Bhanubhakta Era. Anyways, there were still ups and downs in my campus studies but obviously of different kinds from my childhood !