"Why are you eating slowly? You have never eaten this slowly," asked her classmate who have been observing her eating fast at the JNU central library-attached backside canteen and hostel mess in the days when she had lunch with her friends, exceptional days when she didn't take the food to her room in the Tapti hostel.

The reason behind her eating faster while not looking at the friends was that she is sensitive to people's dining etiquette and variety of dishes apart from constant rants of sloganeering sleepless left wing campaigners not sparing even the canteen.

But today she was far away from JNU. They were in a study tour in Shantiniketan in Bolpur town of West Bengal. In the 40 strong batch of geography, there were around 7-8 vegetarians and rest hardcore non-vegetarian students and teachers.

The vegetarian students had decided to cook for themselves while it is the protocol as per so called morals in inclusiveness to prepare food for people of different dietary practices. However the team had prepared only non-veg food apart from mandatory veg rice and bread. They had prepared chicken-korma for themselves and let the vegetarians be on their own.

So Sakshi Bhardwaj along with some of her friends had prepared spicy Matar-Paneer for themselves. The look and taste of the food was such royal that some of the non-vegetarians too were intrigued by it. A few friendly non-vegetarian who didn't hate the vegetarians because of their food habit, had borrowed part of the Matar-Paneer.

They liked it and spread the word that these people have cooked a more tasty recipe than them. The others who have been trolling these 7-8 girls so far, had started a new drama. They along with their professor came and rebuked these girls for being selfish and cooking only for themselves. Irony committed suicide of its ghost.

While these hungry girls who were about to have their food, had to take out the gravy they had prepared in advance for the next day, and cook more.

The non-vegetarians were having their food in instalments. First by having fried chicken as snacks and then having the main meal- so they were not as hungry. They offered to help. While Sakshi Bhardwaj was worried about something ominous, others asked her to avoid unnecessary suspicion.

After the food was complete, the new set of Matar-Paneer was served to everyone. The left wing students along with the Muslim right wing students and the professor were trying hard to stop their grin while eating. This led Sakshi Bhardwaj being careful while eating.

There was a Jat girl from Rajasthan who found the Paneer pieces to be little tighter and little stale. Sakshi was already piercing the Paneer pieces through the fork. She had already noticed this contrast even before starting to eat.

"Because this is not Paneer, in the name of helping they have added some chicken pieces probably cut in box shapes. After frying Paneer and these chicken pieces look same in the gravy, that's why I was suspicious," said Sakshi Bhardwaj.

As she gave a determined and triumphant look to her mentor turned tormentor, the Jat girl fell sick and went away. The class blamed Sakshi Bhardwaj for the Jat girl's sickness. "If you hadn't told her, she wouldn't have fallen sick." Irony was searching something beyond soul to commit suicide.

The professor called her to his room personally and aggressively scolded her- "Don't show your family and caste culture here." She is still trying to find the true definition of victim and culprit in such modern academia.

The trick-feeding to Sakshi Bhardwaj failed again. It had failed in an earlier occasion when the same professor had replaced her pure veg fruit cake with red-dotted fruit cake. But she has a habit of checking labels.

The Jat girl who earlier slammed her for being 'extra-cautious' has a fork along with spoons and waits for 2-3 minutes before starting to eat.