Popped into my lesser inspected email id's to find my inbox crammed with mails about a recent dispute between the SFI and the NIT junta.Apparently the SFI folks were miffed with the authorities for tossing them out of the campus.Retaliation by SFI was severe with the Administrative Block(AB for most)being stoned and the water supply cut off.
Seldom does a batch pass through NIT Calicut without witnessing a day in which the NIT junta transport themselves to the stone age.Even the Gods fear the day when the mallu rolls up his lungi and the northie stamps out his cigarette for hell hath no fury as a NITCian on the rampage.
It was my third year in college and the day was the festival of colours,Holi.The day began in gentlemanly fashion with hostelites colouring each other,tearing each others clothes,borrowing the gardening hose to spray bystanders and taking a dip in a defunct tank which is dry throughout the year but miraculously fills up on Holi.Curiously with such a wide range of colours being used most revellers end up looking pink.With all those pink beings roaming around and torn garments strewn on freshly paved roads,the unenlightened would be forgiven to conclude an invasion by aliens.
As is customary, male hostelites left for their annual pilgrimage to the Ladies Hostel(LH for most) to spread the message of Holi, which usually culminates in a dancing frenzy accompanied by drum beating on buckets in front of the LH gate.LH being out of bounds for the males is a safe vantage point for the ladies to enjoy the spectacle.Unfortunately one female was rather unlucky to have been caught outside the safe premises of the LH and was molested.
Now it so happened that this female was a mallu,belonged to the final year and was extremely popular in her batch.The combination couldn't have been worse.Final year mallu students were naturally outraged and considered it their duty to dispense justice in whatever manner they sought appropriate.They came to the conclusion that the second year northies were to blame and bashed up a few of them in their hostel.
Lying low is not an option in a college where groupism is rampant.To save face it was important for the northies to strike back.Planning started in full swing.Sports goods like stumps and bats were amassed,word was spread to sympathisers in various hostels and the plan was crystallised.The attack on the final year mallu hostel(F` for most)took place right after dinner.Luckily someone managed to close the gate of the F' hostel in time but a few unlucky souls still got hammered.The northies managed to break up a few glass panes and a compound wall before they finally dispersed.The following morning the entire second year batch was suspended.
Glad to see that the art of war is still a part of the curriculum.Changing the world can be left to lesser mortals.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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