P.M. Nityanandan

All inhibitions evaporated.  Pushing, kicking and punching, the Forrester students sought to prevent their erstwhile opponents from entering the bus.  Their efforts were led by Seenu, the Forrester College light heavyweight who in his militant enthusiasm half got into the vehicle himself.  The students heaved.  The bus shook.  There was a desperate last-minute flurry round the two doors.  Despite the Forresters’ clutching hands, the single impulse of escape of the Vikramites could not be denied.  Within three minutes they were all safely ensconced within the decrepit walls of their bus.