Yeh Kayam Ka Mamla Hai

The cute little joke about our NITTclubs , the North Indian answer(which actually raises another 100 questions) to the Tammi domination in our college , the ultimate haven for the TJJs(totally jobless junta) in National Institute of Technology Trichy is known as the Kayam club (which by the way even the members don’t noe why !)

It’s the Hindi club of our college which means automatically that 50% of the junta is automatically out of the equation. Now lets have a closer looks at what purpose our National-Language-Pioneers-of NITT serves in our college. Once a year (with over-the semester postponements) they will organize a event named Umang which is a unique section-against section competition among the first years. Now why is it unique ? First of all it will be a lifetime experience for all participants since following strict language regulations ( which even our Indian government red-tapism might fail against ) the whole event will be in Hindi. Try conducting a quiz/debate in hindi and you’ll noe….and worse participating…the translation and comprehension of questions is the uphill task here never mind the general knowledge. And yes the organizers are totally out of money for organizing the event so you (read: all the students) have to pay regardless of whether u participate or not….Have u ever paid for an IPO regardless of whether u want the shares or not ??

Id rather not share the details of college representation this club gets involved in. It will take its own members on a trip to some Jhumri Tallaiya college and participate in it under the name of NITT. The word ‘own’ is important since maybe dat is where they think there members are far too intellectually superior to the other folks. Which reminds me , lets have a look at how these exceptionally talented professionals are inducted into the club ? Ok Kayam comes into the selection procedure at the last….so effectively the members get filled just as the seats of Mumbai state colleges get filled….IIT tried not successful, BITS tried not successful ,NITs tried not successful nowhere to go….!! Same here Rotaract,Unesco,Leo tried all but undone in all and Kayam comes and sweeps (in) the garbage…Dat is professionalism !!

My sarcasm notwithstanding there is always room for praise for Kayam’s wonderful existence…The acknowledgement will be a two-step statement. One Kayam is an excellent way of keeping the TJJs engaged (even though its for an equally pointless cause) eventually ensuring that the othersect of jobless people get to use their space in applying creativity to trouble-making. And yes dis way another sect of people get to spend ther just-after-CTs idle time in poking sarcasm at something. The world would be such a boring place without it. Oh Shit ! im being sarcastic again !!

Disclaimer :-

The clubs and the characters mentioned in my blog are totally fictitious. Any resemblance to anything living ,dead, inside or outside NITT should me considered merely coincidental.

Ragging As We Know It !!

If u r another quintessential Indian student preparing for engineering entrance exams, chances are you might have already given a thought or two on how to face ragging in our institutes (given the media attention it receives nowadays).

So lets give you a lowdown of what goes on under the garb of ragging in our college , ok wait a bit more specific , how MP first years go through in their 1^st yr. You write assignments, you dress according to ur seniors whims, you are restricted from the internet (as if the lack of college LAN-Internet in hostels isn’t enough),you run errands for them,call them Sirs (but virtually treat them like “Your Majesty” as if the whole of them are some bunch of leading ambassadors of the 1^st world nations)and (it gets weirder from here on),run idiotic races against each other on mornings, follow particular rules as to which roads to avoid in the campus and the icing on the cake get slapped on the face (not ur 7^th grader school slaps or ur 11^th grader girlfriend slaps) but cool little blows on ur face for ‘disobeying’ those rules.(or even not for that matter !)

The prologue being over lets start the story. Ours is a college which runs under the principle of Its-not-an-iit-because-of-ragging….and its actually run that way. Seniors can actually be suspended for getting caught talking to juniors and the technicalities go on and on.Now u can do the math , think of wat levels MP juniors go just to get slapped and when u think dat MP is actually one of the more competitive states of India, how illogical does dat seem ? Its like Gladiator style Roman slavery only difference being the Romans are not even petty peons let alone emperors.

Lets get down to the diverse reasons these intellectuals present us with. Some act like they read ragging to be one of the fundamental rights bestowed by the constitution in their 9^th standard civics. Some seem to be unaware of the very fact that they are being ragged while still others actually call it fun. (Getting slapped? Fun? Who the hell came up with that  logic ?) Lets get down to the even more entertaining reasons the sebiors (who learnt it from deir seniors and is just passing them on)give to the juniors for that matter. They say getting slapped is a tradition. Good .Too good. Traditions ??!! Where did these tribals come from ?? What next ? ya ? Ragging plays an important role in your final year placements.How sick is that reasoning? or rather how sick are the people believing in that reasoning ?!! Google and Goldman Sachs are going to hire you based on how you endured your seniors evaluate you . Like they have a serious shortage of people to actually interview you