Cataclysmiamsa

Who knows, someday in the future some researcher in psychology, under pressure to unearth a new mental disorder, will come up with something called cataclysmiasma (or if he’s fortunate and the illness gets named after him, debasish syndrome or fakruddinism, as the case may be) whereby someone who stays for too long with too many cats starts to hallucinate, on seeing these felines in various situations, their own interactions with fellow human beings…

See, for instance, this pic below. Any normal person (or someone as yet not diagnosed with cataclysmiasma) wouldn’t give it a second glance, or at best, think the cats after a feed are relaxing in the sun…

But here I am, a classic case of late stage cataclysiasma, after just a cursory glance at the scene, immediately being transported to a classroom where i’m giving a late afternoon lecture standing on a red podium…

with the best student in class, as always, very attentive while his bestie on the same bench is trying his level best to stay awake…

Meanwhile, on the last bench, our hero, cool as cucumber as last benchers always are, decides internal marks are not going to save him anyway, and goes off to sleep….