The Daya debacle

It was our study holiday as they call it.  And like any other sincere student around, we spent most of our time playing cricket.  Myself, Gundamani alias VIJAY alias SAURAV DA and daya were geographically co-located and thus had a league of our own.  We played with those heavy cork cricket balls which could hardly fit into my hands and was too heavy for me too.  Just laboured with it most of the times.  Gundamani though could carry it in two fingers.  And daya was super-human for his size.

When ever we got a bit of time out of our game we got down to do combine study.  Gundamani had this small room above his house which became our study room.  The concept used to be to look at last 4 years question papers and predict what may come this year.  Not entirely a difficult task with Bharthiyar University. Then figure out what is 'studiable' out of those.  And then study only those bare minimum required for us to clear the exams. 

On one such day, daya got angry on the Binomial expansions which according to our calculations was an essential tool to clear the exam.  He proposed his own solution.  He calculated his own marks in various sections and declared 'the total comes to 50'.  Gundamani said impromptu 'hey this seems too much yaar'.  Daya had a serious look at the paper again and said 'what u r saying is right' but then suddenly as if from an after thought he said 'this is the minimum required to clear man!!'

The result, Binomial had the last laugh......Daya debacle meant he never came back to our study sessions.  We missed him but always wished he will clear that exam one day.  

Later he became close friend of an over grown giant who had a love for maths and had a maths family to go with him even after college!!