Altruistic stupidity
He was shabbily dressed, seemed like a typical budhi jeevi and even had a cloth bag, to complete the look. I don't know if it was compassion or sympathy that I felt for him. A talented fellow from a really poor family, who had struggled hard to get into the best engineering college in the state, he introduced himself as Rajakrishnan. The first few weeks, he came across as a really friendly guy and that definitely increased my urge to help him. I had quite a few extra shirts and made it a point to never wear the same shirt twice in the same month and here I was, in the same class as a person who wore the same shirt almost everyday of the week. We observed that a stain that was discovered on the shirt that he wore on Monday, was visible on every shirt that he wore until Friday. So he obviously had to be wearing the same shirt throughout the week. A few weeks later I had gone to Bombay with my friends and while visiting fashion street, I bought a few extra shirts for Kaja as we affec
