Thursday, January 24, 2008

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

I formed this League. This is the league of people who voluntarily and many a times involuntarily decided to remain single :o)
Now one must note that the voluntary enrollment was mostly an outcome of involuntary circumstances. For eg. In college, u like girl, and so does the rest of the college. Finally girl also like boy, but boy one among the rest of the college. Then wat u do...U enroll into league of extraordinary gentlemen and proclaim that u r not interested in girls.

One must at no point doubt the sexual orientation of this league. Every member is straight. Just that we live maharishis decided to let the rest of the world enjoy the fruits of love, n we pray for them (thoda zyada ho gaya but chalta hai :D)

We once had a huge membership but now with passing time, members are shying away from the guidelines of the league.
Recent escapades include long time loyal member Upmanyu Sharmah. He was the last commander i expected to lose. But he too fell in love :o)

We have in and out member Arnab Deka. Recent joinees also include Bhaskar S and Ramnish Gaikwad. However, I am suspicious about Mr. Gaikwad's dedication to the ideals of the group.

The primary ideal of the group is that one has to be a Randwa. Now the word as such sounds very impolite. But a great saint from the village of dead peepal explained the meaning of Randwa to me. A Randwa is basically a guy in love. But the speciality here is...he is not in love with anyone specific. So he is just in love with love or rather the concept of love or watever. But he is in love without anyone to love :o)

Now two of the very old members of the league.
Sam Dadda. I cannot doubt his loyalty at any point of time. He was one of the founding members of the league and we still have spirited discussions on the future of the league.

Debdeep Nath. ANother loyal commander. He did try to move out of the league. But his story goes like this...
Nath baba n another guy sharing a smoke outside the office. Suddenly pretty girl walks out. Nath baba feels he is in love with this girl for sometime now. So he confides in his ciggy buddy....sahi hai na yaar...mujhe bahut achi lagti hai ... Ciggy buddy says...haan..sahi hai...meri girlfriend hai woh. ...Nath baba's story ended there...
Since then I am pretty confident Nath baba has been in the league. THough he has tried to venture out, but some people are just meant to be there for the betterment of the other league members :o)

And finally me :o)
I too ventured out of the league and was foolish enough to think i wont have to return :o)
However, now am back. And would be around for sometime.
Like Upam says, have to find the right reason to quit this extraordinary league of Randwas :o)

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37 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

damn! this is gender specific ... else I was eligible to head this organisation .. *sigh* (shudders at the thought of V-day next month ugh!)

11:08 AM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@arpz
yes arpz...its gender specific

wat to do...life is harsh :D

11:14 AM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@arpz
oh...u still shudder at the thought of v day...see...this shows...that even IF the league were not gender specific...u still have a long way to go before u get a membership :P :P :P

2:14 PM  
Blogger Lucifer said...

@anurag
y does this remind me of the vy faous song "man piaba" by Harry Belafonte...n esp the last line of that song

5:22 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hmm..sounds more like the "Broken Hearts Club" we had in engg. college.

Btw, who do I contact for membership ?

5:27 PM  
Blogger CandidConfessions said...

I admire the fact that you guys are taking pride of the fact! Great going!

7:55 PM  
Blogger Gunjan Aylawadi said...

the voluntary enrollment was mostly an outcome of involuntary circumstances.

funny it was!! :))

9:33 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@mayz
never heard of the song...or the singer :o(

@vinay
no...we didnt have broken hearts club...in college none of the hearts were broken :D
n for membership u contact me
i will walk u thru the process of enrollment after that

@candid
of course bhai...its a matter of pride (or so I console myself :D)

@gunj
thankooo thankooo...
second thankooo was thanks for dropping by :D

10:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"shudders" as in disgust my boy as in disgust.

3:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi,

its nice to see a positive blog...I don't know why but so many blogs are generally melancoly...

Love the title of your blog...it indeed is a beautiful life!!

4:50 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@arpz
okie...now i see where u r coming from :D

@chandni
thankooo so much
but then my blog has its own set of melancholy posts :o)
i guess its more to do with the fact that for most of us, blog is an expression of self...n we as people are melancholy AND happy at diff times :o)

4:57 PM  
Blogger Arnab said...

@anurag

Thanks for the mention - I wish I had reason to say "No Thanks"... :-)

Let's see how long this league continues. I have my doubts about Sam Dadda's plans to stay-on and Debdeep Nath's credibility to get out of the league.

However, much to the agony of my parents, I think would be by your side commander, till the very end. Unless, unless...

Oh and before I forget, I was amazed not to find the mention of a certain "Gazi" in the blog :-)

10:36 AM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@deka
ha ha...i am not sure of many things in ur comment

1. u staying around in the league :D
2. me being here for a "very" long time...agian very long is a very relative temr :D
3. sam dadda's loyalty
4. debdeep's ability...credibility we all doubt :D

and gazi :D...nah...the league never recognized him as a member :D

11:28 AM  
Blogger Arnab said...

@anurag

Point 2 is interesting, indeed!

2:18 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@deka
interesting kya hai bhai...

4:04 PM  
Blogger Arnab said...

@anurag

The commander doubting about himself staying in the league!!!

10:04 PM  
Blogger A said...

LOL...

this was funny...

so for how long are u planning to remain in the league?

12:43 AM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@deka
dost...as i said...most of the time the membership of the league is involuntary...hence the last stt

@anjuli
destiny...if there is any such thing...has kept me in this league for the 25 yrs of my life now :o)...aage bhi uski marzi...i have never taken proactive steps to step out of the league

11:28 AM  
Blogger Arnab said...

@dutta

Oh really? So in the last 25 years you have NEVER, EVER taken a look at the outside world? Never? Ok it's your blog - whatever you say Dutta...

:)

3:10 PM  
Blogger Zee said...

we too had a similar group...only we called it losers anonymous!

3:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lol @nath's plight .. whoever he is :)

3:20 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@deka
please read the post carefully
it clearly mentions i tried, and almost was sure that i am OUT FOREVER from the league...but u know what happened after that :o) (sad smile :D)

@zee
comeon we arent losers...we are just guys in love with the concept of love...there is a huge differnce...but wouldnt be able to explain it through writing...u will have to meet me for that

@sanjiv
nath baba has recovered...n is healthy n hearty now :D

7:00 PM  
Blogger Solitaire said...

I hope you dont enjoy this league too much!

12:58 AM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@solitaire
u r the psychologist miss :o)...u guessed right :o)

3:45 AM  
Blogger ... said...

HEHE!

I was taking stroll down bloggerville and stumbled upon this.
Found this very amusing since we have a similar club in school called - "Anti-marriage Men Haters Club"

:D

9:57 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

anti marriage...i can understand

BUT MEN HATERS

aisa mat karo bhai...hum jaise extraordinary gentlemen to hope hi chod denge tab :D

10:33 PM  
Blogger ... said...

:P

You're funny,extraordinary gentleman!!

1:51 AM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@clouds
thankoooo :o)

2:55 PM  
Blogger SamWrath said...

The League still lives?? ha ha. I thought things would be in shambles by now. Thanks for keeping this group alive Dutta. We shall not fall.. well at least not for a couple more years ;-)

8:20 AM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@samwarth
dadda....tumne naam ki do ma kar di apni :D

haan bhai...this league still exists...n to my surprise i keep getting new members :o)

n 2 yrs is a long time yaar...by then we would hopefully be in a position to hand over the baton to the next set of gentlemen :D

10:21 AM  
Blogger Sonali said...

Like arpz,

I wish it weren't gender specific.

I would be a permanent member though, since for me it is a choice and not circumstantial.

10:23 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@sonali
sorry lady...its gender specific :o)

n i wonder why u say what u say

11:08 PM  
Blogger Sonali said...

"n i wonder why u say what u say"

Because it is what it is....(?)

Anyway,

Good blog. I was laughing out loud.

11:33 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@sonali
thanks for the compliment

n my doubt remains...why would someone want to remain single...but then this is a discussion we can have offline...blog comments are too cumbersome a medium to discuss something like this :o)

12:16 AM  
Blogger Raghu said...

Read ur blog after a long time dutta..ek dam mast post hai yeh :D

dil ki baat bol diya tune! :-)

I have been the founding member of one such group here..and all these groups should have very strict criteria..nahi to..in no time..founding members hi rah jaate hai :D

3:35 PM  
Blogger Anurag said...

@raghu
arre gult :o) tu yaha

talking bout strict criteria...saale...mauka milne par sabse pehle tu hi katega tere league se...teri rag rag se wakif hoon mai :P

4:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!

3:19 PM  

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