So.. finally, I have got ill in this college, too!!!! No hi-fi and prestigious bade logon wali bimari, like migraine or something.. but it"s that same thousand years old disease.. throat infection, where I cough like a 90 year old woman :(
Just imagine, you are in a class; a professor talking about something; most of the students dozing off; very few trying to understand, after
all, what is that he is trying to teach; and the remaining ones half-heartedly watching others.. and then suddenly you get a "cough-attack"
(where you cough for over 5 minutes, in a horrendous voice, coming directly from your stomach, which shakes you completely).. and the scene in the class changes abruptly.... you become the center of attraction of a highly distracted mass.. the dozing off faces get alert quickly, to find out the source of this heavy noise... "ohh! someone"s COUGHING .. ", they think, give a no-earthquake-has-come kinda ex-pression and look at their watches to check, how much time is left for class to get over... in next two minutes, people patiently wait for you to stop.. one more minute..some impatient people turn their faces to find out, who the person is..may be they try hard to hide it, but can"t stop themselves from expressing that you are disturbing them ... one more minute... some really nice people, will look at you, with lots of care and compassion and ask you, "do you need water"?? and one more minute... now even the professor, who otherwise reads all his slides with utmost dedication, gets distracted, and looks at you.. as if he is trying to say that "you may go out and relax".

This is happening with me for past so many years.. this thousand years old, absolutely non-glamorous, hopelessly irritating and highly disturbing disease, throat infection. :(