CURFEW after 11 pm on the streets of IIT Kharagpur – Reason – The whims of the director of IIT Kharagpur need to be satisfied irrespective of the any consequences.
Jawahar Lal Nehru at the time of establishment of IIT Kharagpur said “Here as I stand in this place and my mind inevitably goes back to that infamous institution, for which this place became famous, not now but 20 or 30 years ago – the Hijli Detention Camp. Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands this fine monument of India, representing India’s urges, India’s future in the making. This picture seems to be symbolic of changes that are coming to India.”. The statement is one which makes every KGPian symbolize him as an emblem of India’s urges towards a bright future. What exactly is the future of India?
There is question that looms large in my mind which could solve the purpose of all discussion here. What do we want from IITs? Do we want technicians who know the know how of every machine or do we want people who could lead the country to a better future. If latter is the case then I am very sorry to inform our very own Prof. Damodar Acharya that with fear comes failure and with freedom comes triumph. The entire IIT system is being more and more mechanized. The elite brains of the country due to the various changing patterns have to rely on coaching centers to get into IIT. They lead a life of restriction before coming to IIT and IIT which was the platform where open thoughts where to come, free opinions were to be developed, new ideas were to emerge is again on the verge of further mechanization where our messiah(DIRO) is trying to curb the life of KGPian. The freedom to thought, to act was to bring out the geniuses from them, and when this freedom is taken away I see a very dull future that lies ahead of KGP.
The activities in the institute like Kshitij, SF, HTDS, ETDS, TDS and all other societies that have been helping the students gain an experience of life will stop. Te dullness of Kharagpur would prevail over KGP. The entire difference between KGP and Kharagpur would vanish.
This is the time to rise, the time when we have to take the step forward to show the institute that it is not Hijli Detention Camp but the symbol of India’s urges, India’s future that they are dealing with. We need to break the prison we need to break free and the time to realize has come. “Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free”. If we do not have a say about our freedom then I must say that the elite brains of India do lack something. Stand by your freedom, stand by yourself, and stand by your fellow mates…. Make your point heard……… make yourself loud enough by being together….. When 4000 IITians speak the world would listen.
Prove to yourself if not to anyone else that you are an IITian and not every other boy who cannot make even valid arguments heard.
Try to be yourself for once at least for your freedom, at least for yourself.
2 Comments
August 31, 2008 at 3:22 am
these paragraphs seems very inspiring
but when it comes to somthing real like planing a protest nones speaks
plzz plan a protest
im sure ppl will cooperate
administrative team plz arrange a protest asap
August 31, 2008 at 7:00 am
You’re really not making several valid points here. Yes, while societies will be affected, it’s only a small percentage of people(and yes, I belong to a society myself).
The trouble here is you don’t seem to understand the difference between your rights and your privileges. Certain things are your rights, but a lot of your privileges can be taken away as per the reasoning of the administration. Yes, you may feel it’s wrong, but it’s not wrong on paper.
Apart from the argument that going around after 11 is the sole reason we still have any nuance of humanity left, consider the many who need to visit the public study rooms, departments to do their project work(especially the folks from architecture), and the other people it’ll affect.
This can be considered a passing phase, because it takes a lot of manpower to keep these rules enforced. Either that or you consider how to reason out why this is harming the student community in a logical and clear way.
Yes, it’s very easy to write sensational crap like this, prompting more anger in the pits of everyone who reads it. The last thing you would want is a protest, which would provoke the administration to take away more privileges. While the 11PM situation affects only a small section of people, if you piss them off enough to shut off the network, you really don’t want to be responsible for that.
At the end, you’ve got two choices, reason or wait.