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              As soon as she entered the gallery no.119, she became the cynosure of all eyes. Gallery no.119 was where our MATHEMATICS-III class was scheduled to be held. It was impossible for everyone present in the class to blink their eyes even for a moment. It was same for the girls as well, though the reason might be different. I, trying to control my mind and hence my eyes, decided to see the reactions of rahul and lalu, who were sitting adjacent to me.

              Lalu gave an innocent look, as I looked at him, as if he was ignorant of everything that was going on in the class. Rahul was lost. Rahul was lost in lusty thoughts, I assumed.

‘hello’- I called out.

Rahul turned his head towards me.

Silence.

I was expecting rahul to come up with his trade-mark dialogue-‘’ she badly needs…….”. but there was silence. There was something special about this silence. There was something special about rahul’s unexpressed words. There was something special about Miss Sangeeta, our new math-III faculty. She didn’t have a surname, or may be she didn’t bother to mention.

                As she prepared to start the subject, the class was witnessing a never-seen-before atmosphere, as if it was not a class of engineering students any more…. Unbelievable concentrated. But the concentration was on the subject or on the faculty, it was a debatable question.

“PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS”-  the undesirable sound released due to friction of chalk and the black-board echoed in the gallery,as she turned back to write. As the class progressed, she discussed wave equation, laplace equation and all. Nobody cared about the equations on the black-board, everyone was trying to solve the new wave equation that was formed in the last few minutes in everyone’s mind. May be in the heart as well.

100 minutes had passed!!!!

A class of 100 minutes, which was usually nothing less than a turture for us, had passed. It was time. She left the class.

‘her eyes are so beautiful, as if the beauty of the whole world lie in those two hazel eyes’- lalu said, keeping rahul and me dumbfounded. We couldn’t find the inncocence in his eyes any more. It was somewhat different. Rahul’s eyes widened. He was silent,still.

I preferred to gaze outside the window. I was confused, as usual, still trying to solve the non-linear equation that was beyond the scope of mathematics……