Kannan S
He is another person who earned a sobriquet
in few days of training. He was nick named as “Discharge” Kannan to avoid
confusion among four Kannans. He was very soft initially, and always talked
about how to go out of service during those training days. Though we were all
like that, did not like the atmosphere, the food and the treatment meted out to
us, he was relatively the much affected person.
Once the six months period was over, one
could see the slow transformation in him. He joined Guru and both used to come
and join us for play, party or for going out together. The moment he was posted
to Dinjan (Even today, I do not know if this exists in map), he was again
frustrated to find that no one was accompanying him. The east bound guys
starting from NJP and Bongaigaon, started alighting from the train.
At Guwahati the remaining entire gang
alighted from Train. Guru left for Shillong, Mani to Guwahati (local), Kumar to
Kumbhigram. Anbu, me and S Kannan were for waiting for our trains. It was his
train first. When me and Anbu went along with him to bid him farewell, he was
emotional on two counts that he is leaving us behind and the other that he is
going to a strange place. See how the time flies.
Exactly after one and half year when we met
again in Jun 1990, I could not believe my eyes. What a phenomenal
transformation. On Sep 23, 1990, we had a party and this guy danced like
Michael Jackson and showed the world that he is not the same person.. he
danced, swayed and sung all the way and obviously he was the master of our
ceremony that day. I was very happy for him. He is another supreme athlete of
our group, who excelled in every event along with Johny and Sreeprasad.
He also
visited us in Kanpur for three days. Even today, he is transforming himself as
India trotter if not globe trotter and a very good organiser. He is the same
person for you, 24 years back who felt bad about going to Dinjan and today he
is scaling the country across its length and breadth….
To be continued....
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