"I'm an IITian!"
Sound good? Nope. Not even a little. Sigh!
Gone are those days when being an IITian was as respected a position as that of an IAS officer. IITs were conceived by Nehruji to be the one pillar India needed alongside Administration to become a superpower. Maayayo desh ki land area toh badhi nai, IIT ke seats badh gaye.
I wonder why we have been labelled rather carelessly. Here are a few of them...
1) Highly testosterone-charged. There have been many stories floating around. The most famous of 'em all is the one of DU and IIT Delhi. Apparently, some jerks at IITD have behaved real cheap around DU girls often. Coupled with that, the free and unconstrained lifestyle of those girls have been mistaken as 'easy-to-get' slash 'easy-to-screw'. I can go ahead and say pakka kisi lucche Jat ya Haryanvi ka kaam hoga but am I not doing the same... building stereotypes out of a few coincidences. True, some friends I've met look quite disgustingly towards ladies. But there's another side to every coin. Many of my friends are quite the gentlemen. They totally respect women and don't look for side-benefits out of every conversation with them. But if you argue that porn accounts for some bytes in our hard drives, I'll say porn features naked men too. Sex is perfectly natural. Getting caught red-handed may give your parents a shocker, but aren't they the same people who will later ask you to sleep with a stranger and make babies?
2) Geeky nerdy people with no taste in fun. I've never heard of fun being defined only as drinking, smoking, partying, hanging out with the opposite sex, etc. On some Sundays, I go out, play football, watch movies, or simply hang out hostel ke bandon ke saath. For me, fun is having company. And at IITs that feature is quite abundant. People from all parts of India mingling with each other, getting to know various cultures, lifestyles, stories, etc. I say that's the stuff that makes men. Never will you see an IITian involving in communal strife. We have seen any particular situation through many possible angles. IITians are the most broad-minded and accepting people you'll ever meet. You want experience, wisdom, smartness, etc.? With all the fests, inter-hostel tourneys and academic loads, we learn by the time we graduate what an average man learns maybe by the time he nears the end of his twenties.
3) Proud arrogant fucks who think they're extraordinary. Really? Ever tried participating in one of their fests? The whole Team works towards just one goal: make it memorable for you as well as the Team. Am not sure about others, but in IIT Guwahati we live our undergrad life in the same hostel right from first year. I'll talk about ragging some other day, it's not as bad as you think. The next three years, we try our best to make the incoming freshers feel at home and open them up to the big family and hostel values. We know that to win trophies, its quintessential to come together as a team, not just a bunch of few supertalents. Anyone and everyone is valuable, the trick is in figuring out what they're good at.
Quoting Jackie Shroff, "Izzat de. Izzat le. Baaki maze le." :D
I almost forgot... now that I quoted IITG hostels, I just couldn't resist myself from shouting Jai Umiam !! \m/
Sound good? Nope. Not even a little. Sigh!
Gone are those days when being an IITian was as respected a position as that of an IAS officer. IITs were conceived by Nehruji to be the one pillar India needed alongside Administration to become a superpower. Maayayo desh ki land area toh badhi nai, IIT ke seats badh gaye.
I wonder why we have been labelled rather carelessly. Here are a few of them...
1) Highly testosterone-charged. There have been many stories floating around. The most famous of 'em all is the one of DU and IIT Delhi. Apparently, some jerks at IITD have behaved real cheap around DU girls often. Coupled with that, the free and unconstrained lifestyle of those girls have been mistaken as 'easy-to-get' slash 'easy-to-screw'. I can go ahead and say pakka kisi lucche Jat ya Haryanvi ka kaam hoga but am I not doing the same... building stereotypes out of a few coincidences. True, some friends I've met look quite disgustingly towards ladies. But there's another side to every coin. Many of my friends are quite the gentlemen. They totally respect women and don't look for side-benefits out of every conversation with them. But if you argue that porn accounts for some bytes in our hard drives, I'll say porn features naked men too. Sex is perfectly natural. Getting caught red-handed may give your parents a shocker, but aren't they the same people who will later ask you to sleep with a stranger and make babies?
2) Geeky nerdy people with no taste in fun. I've never heard of fun being defined only as drinking, smoking, partying, hanging out with the opposite sex, etc. On some Sundays, I go out, play football, watch movies, or simply hang out hostel ke bandon ke saath. For me, fun is having company. And at IITs that feature is quite abundant. People from all parts of India mingling with each other, getting to know various cultures, lifestyles, stories, etc. I say that's the stuff that makes men. Never will you see an IITian involving in communal strife. We have seen any particular situation through many possible angles. IITians are the most broad-minded and accepting people you'll ever meet. You want experience, wisdom, smartness, etc.? With all the fests, inter-hostel tourneys and academic loads, we learn by the time we graduate what an average man learns maybe by the time he nears the end of his twenties.
3) Proud arrogant fucks who think they're extraordinary. Really? Ever tried participating in one of their fests? The whole Team works towards just one goal: make it memorable for you as well as the Team. Am not sure about others, but in IIT Guwahati we live our undergrad life in the same hostel right from first year. I'll talk about ragging some other day, it's not as bad as you think. The next three years, we try our best to make the incoming freshers feel at home and open them up to the big family and hostel values. We know that to win trophies, its quintessential to come together as a team, not just a bunch of few supertalents. Anyone and everyone is valuable, the trick is in figuring out what they're good at.
Quoting Jackie Shroff, "Izzat de. Izzat le. Baaki maze le." :D
I almost forgot... now that I quoted IITG hostels, I just couldn't resist myself from shouting Jai Umiam !! \m/
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