Whoever came up with the quote: “Sticks and stones may break my bones…” had never had my set of friends. Brutal honesty, expressed with an absolute finality of a coroner: “Your blog is dead!”, is sufficient reason to post soon. With the stench of mid-sems hanging in the air like some imminent doom, I believe this is what Coelho had in mind when he writes in ‘The Alchemist’: “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it…” – Just the perfect excuse for sitting in front of the lappy and staring away at the screen as blank as your mind.
It’s a rough crowd out there in the campus these days – students going berserk, profs going on strike. Even my otherwise hibernating neighbour was driven by a fiendish zeal, meticulously masterminding and executing his devilish plans. Aah! The evils of poli. The admin as usual remains clueless. Ignorance is sheer Bliss. When fights erupt between two rival poli groups, they shut down all canteens. I mean what do they think this is, some medieval-age castle warfare? Cut off their resources, choke all their escapes… With no rations, they are bound to give in sooner or later.
The only time I felt genuinely proud of the IIT-R faculty was when I came across an article in ‘Business Standard’ explicitly mentioning the Roorkee crowd opting for an additional four day leave as a protest against the insufficient pay hike. The happiness as such, was short lived. Not only was the strike called off, they even graciously accepted to keep Saturday a working day (How in the world did it help their cause?). In the midst of all this the students were conveniently forgotten. Couple this to the frenzy surrounding poli and SAC posts, and the humour is ironical.
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Of late, I have acquired some unhealthy habits like going off to the library when the exams appear uncomfortably close. Not that they have really helped me a lot; except maybe raise my CG a couple of digits on the wrong side of the decimal. Yet there is hope. My blog survives….
