The Ghost Of S.R.B.

This is an amusing and interesting incident that occurred during my days at S.R.B. hostel,Cotton College.For those of you who believe in 'tantriks' or black magic this incident would be a real eye-opener.

I was in 12th standard that time and my roommate was Bhaskar Borah,a degree 3rd year student.Our hostel was an old,decrepit British built Assam type house that had witnessed almost a hundred summers.Unlike in MANIT ,we had a library in our hostel that was named after a deceased boarder,the Lt. Pabitra Gogoi.Just outside the library we had a 'common' landline phone that kept us in touch with our relatives.Of course the phone was meant only to receive calls and not to call.Back then the mobile density was not as high as it is now;only an elite few had cell phones.Adjacent to the phone was the window of the library whose panes were all broken, obviously the doing of a rowdy boarder.The keys of the library lie with the library in-charge who is chosen from among the students.

It was Lt.Pabitra Gogoi's death anniversary and like every other year we had organized a small
puja for the peace of his eternal soul.After the puja was over everyone retired to their respective rooms.Around midnight,Trinayan came to our room and presented his devious plan to scare Mrigen da.Bhaskar da gave his approval to the plan and it was promptly put into action.

One of us made a call to our common phone.After two or three rings one of us began yelling"Mrigen da!Your call".Mrigen da came out of his room and rceived his phoney call.He was half asleep and hardly aware of his surroundings.Meanwhile Trinayan was already inside the library.The lights inside the library had been switched off and what lay inside was impossible to determine.When Mrigen da was busy in the phone (trying to know who was on the other end)Trinayan quitely sneaked in his hand through the window touched Mrigen da on his bare windows and as quickly and quietly withdrew his hand as he had sneaked it in.This startled Mrigen da and as nobody was in the corridor(pre-planned)he made a dash to our room.You had to see his face.Fear was written all over it ; his face had become deathly pale.We asked what was the matter and pretended as if we were genuinely concerned. We gathered some other co -plotters and decided that we should check inside the library.In the meantime, Trinayan had already moved himself out of the library room and joined us.We armed ourselves with a few sticks and a torch (to appear genuine)and forced the library door open.Imagine Mrigen da's horror when we found not a soul inside.The superintendent was informed of this freak incident and it was decided that tantriks would be called the next day.


The next day the tantriks arrived and after taking a stock of the surroundings around the library declared that it was actually the spirit of Lt.Pabitra Gogoi that was roaming free and haunting us.They then recited some mantras and boastfully declared that for the next one month the spirit would not bother us.We rolled into laughter after the tantriks left.We did not reveal this secret to Mrigenda until the day of our departure.

Do u really believe in ghosts and black magic?Please post your comments.

Any SRBian if u happen to read this please put forward ur comments.


Signing off for now.