...of Dante's Sins and IITR

...well, another day of strenous research and classes is over and i sit now, relishing some great tracks and parallely musing over yet another chain of thoghts about this great place i have been living in for quite a time now. Realised that although most of the inhabitants here take the first opportunity to indulge in the blame game regarding literally almost everything that makes this place what it is, they do, almost everytime, manage to turn a blind eye on the pros of the whole system and the values on which its based upon. I tried to fathom the whole philosophy and suddenly could relate almost everything to the concepts of The Seven Sins advocated by early Catholic Church which were based on some saying which goes on like this ... "six things the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth" and later came to be known as Dante's Seven Sins. I realised that the first conversation that occured between the great people who sat down to make the rules which will define the whole adminstrative mechanics here for the times to come wouldve been somethin like this..
GG(great guy) 1: hmm...nice quote..
GG2: so, wat should ve concentrate upon, the hateth part or the detesteth part...
GG3: dude...m pissed off, ma wife is sleepin with that bloody driver...
GG1: lolz...no wonder, u spend most of ur time with us, watz she supposed to do...
GG2: cmon guys...lets concentrate..its the matter of future minds and its our responsibility to nurture them...
GG3: i dont kno man...i cant seem to think of nythin rt now, i hate everythin...
GG2: ya rt man...me too, frankly this place sux, so lets make it a hell for everyone who comes here...i vote fr the detesteth part...
GG3: ya..me too..i think i sould leave early today....i vote for the same
GG1: (dejected) so be it...its democracy all right...wat can i do..

and so wouldve begun the procedure that decided everythin that goes around here, based on the Seven Sins that god detested and which each and every victim/student coming here would be relieved of till the time he/she(...i will be concentrating on the he part mostly) leaves this place. So lets begin.

1)Gluttony: lets accept it, we are all gluttons in one way or the other before coming here and rarely has been a case where anyone gains weight after prolonged consumption of great mess food where the populated menu is just a decoy to make you feel that u can eat at least one or the other 'dishes' which are there. As time passes by, parents just stare in amazment how much their poor laadla baccha had been workin so hard that his weight has dropped so radically, meanwhile the baccha tries to gobble up as much food as he can when he goes home. Take that for all that nagging you did to ur mom if she ever made same meals continuously two times. Coming back here, slowly but ever steadily, the urge to eat diminshes and by the time we leave, food had lost its charm and we are extricated of our foodily desires. First Sin...check...

2) Greed: so u wanted to have everything in your life, kiss those thoghts goodbye now coz here, u can want watever you want, but wont get it unless u are willing to go through excruciating pains for it and are stalwart enuf to face the consequences.first and foremost, the greed for nice lookin opposite gender, which is also manifests itself in framing of rules for other sins and we will be coming to that too,greed for an awsome net connection, for possessing a bike(...u thought u'll get a pulsar we u get in a college, how's that Atlas feel now), for a better room, for grades, for a nice job,for "P", "T", "VP",BC,MC, for thomso, for cogni, for sleeping hours at stretch and we all kno wat more. Moral...greedy or not, we'll kick yer arse...,Sin two, check..

3) Sloth: you thought that u can be an indolent smartarse and the escape the red tape here..wake up, time's up and face the not-so-sweet picture. starting with the first class, you kno implicitly and sometimes rather explicitly that there are a hell lot of credits for attendence and the crap-work which subsequently decides your impression with the prof, which further paves way for you in you respective deptts. many(..read 99%) of us fail to see this underlying theory and so, miss out on the first step and the whole world crashes down. After that its not for grades you are fighting for, its to make it out of here in time and there are no second chances...ppl with a curse called 'back' can visualise the picture better, with the marathon starting from deptt, acads, dean office, prof and ya...sometimes a fine. More 'lucky' ppl get the so called summer term and ya ther's an ever sweet..The Year Back. Lesson to be fetched....that "shraman vina ka kimapi sadhyam" was meant to be taken literally else everythin will be made "asadhyam" for you..

4) Lust: this is the most intersting part and i guess the GG3 just mentioned above came up with the proposal for rules regarding this aspect. Initial proposal was to have an all guys place so that the libido oriented predicaments could be curtailed altogether, but then he had a brainwave...why not teach them not by depriving but by rousing their desires and them crushing them. And so from then onwards, year after year, fresh batch of newbies arrive with burning desires which are extinguished relentlessly for the saddist pleasures of the ones who have them at their disposal for the time they are here. But, smart as the kids are, decided to put the breakthroughs in modern technology to use and thus began the stupendous task of collecting porn and other stuff which can even now be found on the most archaic of pc's here. The collection which now surpasses hundreds of GB's is a testimony to the vaccum which we and our forefathers have always been devoid of. But for the hard work of scientists and Moore's law, the civilisation here wouldve so long ago perished, or at least become smthing else.Its because of the characterstic human(...read male) desires which are 'relatively' easy to quench(:D :D) that we have survived this atrocity by learning reroute it, at least for the time we are here...
Quote from one of the forefathers: Dude, nothin beats the real thing.. :P
Sin four .... saved..i mean checked...

5)Wrath: hmm..so u were a big-shot at school and used to beat yer fellow buddies and not-so-buddies to pulp on the slightest hint of revenge. In short you were the guy whom other talked about and said "saale vo teri g*** maar dega, dont mess with him". Come here, and u see on the other side of the 'banging', figuratively, of course. All that anger in you is now slowly turned to humility. Starts with, for some, cutting the attitude for votes, and then as the xams approach, for the notes. Then the vicious cycle continues and before you kno, you are on ur knees for quite a lot of things,for the post in thomso/cogni/shirisht/sangram, in front of the almighty prof for saving ur butt from attendence/acad back, in front of Proctor for that birthday (DP) bash or for the real bashing you were involved in and ya, very rarely, in front of the girl you'd like to propose but as mentioned...rarely. So the implicit inclusion of anger management in the curriculum makes sure that we turn out to be quintessentially placid and modest citizens...aah engineers that the country is looking for. The anger my friend, has blown away in the wind...
i humbly check out the fifth sin...

6)Pride: Basically the one above and this one are not that different, as both of these adjectives of yours( if present earlier) are brought down in more or less the same ways. Here also, your self esteem and pride are put to ultimate test, which you are destined to fail, its just that you never realise that untill its too late. The things for which we get down on our knees, stated in the "Wrath" part, emanates in perpetual and relentless begging, most it being done in the remote and secluded chambers of our tormentors which is never again talked about, and only the consequences are later seen by the outside world, sometimes propitious and more often than not, disastrous. Another thing is the spree of apology letters if ever u manage to get caught after a screwup. Their sheer language is enough to bring tears to even the most stone hearted ones, and all that not because you want to but you just have to. But the core objective is accomplished...ur'e not proud of urself nymore and wont ever be, in your murky depths of your heart you will always know.....always...

7)Envy: hmm...dont feel lyk sheddin my views on this one...be my guest...

...well, thats all I could come up with after a deep thought session and will be grateful to anyone who can improve on this and can mention more anecdotes or citations to make this theory more concrete...
adios...

..of star wars and iitr..

Episode I.....to VI
...a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away....there existed a planet called earth and in a place even far away in it, was a place called roorkee, wherin dwelled a race of living beings called iitians in the republic of iit roorkee, which was subdivided into so called juniors and seniors who till now had survived in perfect symbiosis. Trouble started when the federation(read admin) decided to invoke its powers and put and end to this equlibrium. Turmoil now engulfed the republic with the federation now putting a blockade to the small sub-region of rjb and deciding to transfer the power of authority to its inhabitants, reversing the balace of nature which had since long existed and flourished. While the congress of seniors endlessly debated this alarming chain of events, the federation continued to endow the juniors with endless autonomy. They now began their final assault to take over the republic which the other race had so long ruled and being the natives, had efficiently maintained the proper order of things. Ironically, the race being now suppressed was in the majority, but now had to follow the orders with servile obidience. Any attempt of rebellion was bound to be crushed by the all transcendental federation with expulsion from the repulblic and heavy fines. The transfer of power continued and the luxuries which the seniors once enjoyed were slowly snatched from them. The republic was swarmed with the inhabitants of that puny region, of whom the seniors were now terrorized. They were everywhere, and it seemed that their population always seemed to be on an increase. They sucked up the most valuable and scarce resources of the republic (...net) and even the means to access those(..lib and cc compus). The places which used to be the get away spots for the seniours after a laborious day were now filled to the brim with the juniors who treated almost everyone, except the fellow beings of course, with absolute impunity. The republic was in utter chaos with the balance now disturbed to the limit and the frustration of the majority of the inhabitants escalating by each passing (..earth) day. There seemed to be no hope and the republic now seemed to be doomed forever...and worse of all...no bloody jedis existed there.
Maybe this is how george lucas wouldve pictured the scene here if he was among the 'senior' race here. Obviously i cant say for sure, but looking at the scene here for about a couple of weeks now and right now, myself being in one of the places which earlier used to be my get-away spot(..lib) i barely managed to get a seat. on top of it, all the blabbering that goes around makes it a hell. Well, i dont say i too intend to do any relevant work here, but still, peace of mind is something that i always found here, not to mention the privacy. Now, just finished off with yet another movie of star wars series and had an awkward feeling, as in being spied upon, turned around to find a couple of jerks staring at ma screen. They did buzz off when i gave them a nice stare but seriously...wtf. nyways, i have to finish off the complete series by the end of the day and so will get on that...
and ya...Yoda seriously rocks.. :)