Miss BIT (1963) – Chapter 12 - My memoirs of BIT Mesra (1963-1968)

I am sure the title of the post would have intrigued you – as you all are aware that there were no girl students in BIT even many years after 1963. No we did not venture to include the daughters of staff members for the title.

1963 was the year we had joined as freshers and as mentioned in my Chapter 1 of the memoirs - “Ragging”. Some of the more innovative and more imaginative of our seniors had an informal selection of a Miss BIT (from the male students of our batch). The crowned princess was a boy from Nepal – name withheld.

Kareena - not Miss BIT

He did not have a 36-24-36 figure – as a matter of fact he had a fairly masculine figure – but had a very feminine face. In spite of his 18+ age he did not have any hair growth on his face and was as chikna as one can be... ☺. It is indeed sad that I do not have a photo of his beautiful face but this is the closest image that I could find resembling him – of course this is Kareena Kapoor and not him. He also had a dimple on his chin.

He was effeminate in quite a few ways and would invariably cover his head with a scarf and pretend to walk with a girly swagger – he was a fun person. A wee bit quick and short tempered, would never take any nonsense from anybody. 

With his head covered and little bit of hair showing under the front of the scarf – he really did look quite sweet.

His only woe was his absence of facial hair.

The market had a product by the name of Silvikrin – it came in two varieties. One was the "Hair Dressing" (a suspension) and the second was “Pure Silvikrin” - which was supposed to help for falling hair or a receding hairline. As a matter of fact – it is still available in the market. It used to be a small bottle about 150ml fitted with a dropper in the lid and a brown coloured liquid. Was fairly expensive - hence the dropper - for its quantity. 

Our dear friend – somehow was advised to use that, to augment his facial hair and that boy would religiously massage the tonic on his face …. alas, it did not help. Thus our Miss BIT(1963) remained crowned till the end of his stay in BIT.

We have lost touch of our Miss BIT(1963) and if anyone has a picture – or knows of his where about, please share the information with us, we would be happy to add one more member in the Alumni. A search of Facebook / Google led me to about 40 plus persons with the same name (by the way - most of them were females) – many without any photos, so am stuck. So help me friends...