A year that was at college!

Dressed neatly in light blue designer shirt and dark blue slightly faded blue jeans, I clomped towards the beaming main auditorium, trampling across lush green lawn on a pleasant august forenoon...
Big day it was for 630 newbies to the famed SSNCE for it was a new chapter for a happy go lucky student and a grander stage to compete with the best in the business for the studious population...
As I opened the huge brown doors of the audi, the chattering sound of everyone resonated loudly and it took me sometime for the intensity of the occasion to mellow down in my mind.Nervous but excited eyes,astute ears, yabbering mouths and restless anxious minds all set to undergo a major transition in their life.

That was 295 days ago, with loads of dreams,which never materialized and was unaware of the unexpected changes that would creep into me gradually as days roll by.

Set aside the subtle changes in me, there are few realisations derived from my experience in college wiht quashed pre-college dreams

#Chennai is not Madurai
#Class getogether is not 30 mins away... It requires either careful planning or immense luck
#While in school,you dream of wearing colorful funky dresses in college but then you hit reality after joining college
#Be careful about the number printed in your designer tshirt unless you want to be compared with the person of the corresponding roll number
#Will be promoted even if you fail
#NO more restrictions on participation of other coll culturals
#Noone can live a kollywood college hero life
#Remember canteen is always crowded and beware of funny conniving pranks of your friends!
#You have to indeed study in college, atleast to pass
#Been to Mayajaal numerous times bt not once after joining college
#Pop corn costs shoot up eight times the original price on entering a multiplex
#Average speed of a vehicle in the city(except that of the CM's) is approx 6 km/hr during traffic extremum
#Word spreads fast, not necessarily true

The first week of college wasnt that uncool as I expected it to be. Felt anxious about making new friends and derived pleasure from the same feeling that shown evidently in every other classmate's face.Classes did happen as against the most essential logic of kollywood movies that centered around college life,though with lighter intensity and better interaction, but all the same for me.. YAAAWN

People who were ready to unwind fastly formed close knitted friend circles way early.
Having utilised my weekly co-curricular classes in school to great effect for the purpose of doing a week's pending homework, there was so little for me to improve on and so vast an area to start! Hence i ruled out the prospect of playing any popular outdoor games and finally chose the less-competent squash, which is always short of players. An ordinary performance in internals coupled by a desperate show in the semester exams, a good year in quizzing for a non-stereotypical quizzer like me...

Altogether, my first year at college was a very normal one,lacking in adrenaline rushing moments and conspicuous activities but nevertheless, satisfying for a guy who takes life easily on the stride...


A year that wasnt at college
http://subadeshkanna1.blogspot.com/2007/12/haunting-dreams.html

Blame it on the Warlords !

During the controversial Indias tour down under, when Rohit and Ishant Sharma were chasing the ball off a delicate coverdrive by Gilly, the non-Indian commentator asked Harsha Bhogle seriously if Rohit and Ishant were brothers !

Well, my knack of writing on weird topics, coupled by the mounting pressure on me regarding the upcoming semester exams is probably the reason why am writing on this.

Digging up the monarchical history books of India, one finds that not just the kingdom but king's name is inherited by their successor. The idea of Chandragupta VI is not that fascinating especially for 10th graders, who are flustered by the Roman Numerals and finally ending up writing Maurya the V 's mom as Maurya III 's wife. Not a big deal of concern for us but Maurya IV will definitely mind !
West is infested with the same problem, right from Queen Elizabeth to Louis (roman numeral)...

The Indian emperors, apart from being good samaritans n skilled warlords, were efficient practitioners of polygamy, or infact epitomizing the term ! The royal bloodline itself accounting for a mini empire within an empire, withe everyone sharing the same second name is maybe the reason for the daunting no. of people having the same second name in North India...

So back to the wise commentators, if everyone having Sharma as a second name are brothers, then Ishant (no offense) has easily thousands of brothers and not even the most raunchy pervert of a polygamist dad can ever account for it !

For all such foreigners who share the same perspective that India is a land of Mukherjee,Sharma,Chopra,Singh,Patels,Khan and the rest, welcome...
Take a look at the MP list of the ruling party, and the country's coveted celebrities, am afraid you ll draw absurd conclusions. Rani,Tanisha and Pranab ?
Parthiv Patel, son of the first citizen?
JP yadav...You one among Laloo's wards
IF chopras are all related, Nikhil the offspinner shouldve starred in OSO's songs alongside 'family'.
If Singhs are related,then, Buck hunter,Chain Smoker,Bebo man are all brothers.
Btw,Youngistan woudlve starred Yuvraj Singh or Mahendra Singh had it come a months earlier?
Rahul...Sonia...Mahatma ? Please !

Did we doubt whether Dan Brown and Gordon Brown are related ?
And if all Hussains are related, then Nasser should be behind bars now.
Why was Demi 'Moore' never a Bond girl ?
Cameron Diaz, lone survivor in the bloodline of explorer Barthelome Diaz?
Why is Tottenham's defender King not resorting to peace?
Sinima Pongolle of Liverpool has South Indian origin?

Finally, Subadesh kanna and Twinkle Khanna couple ? ;)

Arasiyal la ithellam sagajamappa !!

Historic Judgement...The 24*7 news channels kept screaming and yabbering all day. The Supreme Court had upheld 27% OBC quota reservation policy. But the deserving having to give way for the reserved is downright deplorable.Talking of equality, quality is forgtten and the auxilliary aspect is that equality doesnt form the crux of this decision. Lok Sabha Polls nearing, all political parties will be trying to propagate this agenda, showcasing their apparent support the verdict.

What is s historic about this? One that could be in contention for the most stunning blunders made by the SC?

And the creamy layer will consist of wards of politicians,engineers,doctors,filmstars,defense personnel,someone who owns a cmpany and a family income of 2.5 lakh plus!
Well, the number of OBC candidates who dont fit into the above mentioned category will be brutally low. The IIMs will probably decide on increasing the no. of seats thus facilitating the new OBC non-creamy layer candidates.

Reservation has crept into almost all fields in the country,diluting quality in the name of equality. The conducive environment of IIMs,which has produced world class professionals has been the ultimate dream of many MBA aspirants form all corners of the country but all their efforts and efficiency and performance is going to be sidelined by the reservation policy.

Imagine a cricket team, where the starting 11 has to be chosen keeping in mind the reservation policy ! Laxman,Dravid,Sachin and Sourav are all of the FC class. And the rest of the INdian batsmen from BC earn well over 2.5 lakhs a month !
Or the Indian football team, already in shambles getting pricked by reservation problem.
Or a bollywood movie plagued by reservation policy... They will have to rope in a troupe from Paruthiveeran to satisfy the rules.

The country should be providing the under privileged all the necessary ammunition for excelling in all quarters and try levelling the playing field, rather than inflicting absolutely insane ideas into the spotless infrastructure of the IIMs and IITs.

When the TN govt announced the scrapping of entrance exams to level the playing field, I had wanted the Central Govt to interfere and rubbish the action. The SC wasnt too supportive of the proposition but finally gave its consent. I appreciated the fact that the Central Government is atleast not fully inclined to the policy of TN.

But now, the enactment of 27% policy by the Supreme Court and the way all National parties have voiced their assent towards it in unison just makes us say...

Arasiyala ithellam saadaranamappa !

After all it is the same old lousy politics...

Madurai Merriment - Vichu's Bday

Extreme Course on Enjoyment - Thats ECE !!