Hi again to dear diary
As I was saying last evening, all of these random nothings keep happening to life like it was a random nothing itself (is it?). We wonder and wonder, if there is something "funny" to be found in the mundane we normally ignore, and then we find it. Amusing to only the two of us I guess, the private joke nonetheless provides entertainment in what is otherwise just life as usual. As an aside, this life as usual business is really such a waste - every time someone says what's up these days, that's the only default, boring, true answer. Why is this the usual?
Anyhow, so we went to IIT Kanpur yesterday and had an okay event, I suppose. What a maggu campus it is, we wonder too. And then we try to drive to Lucknow at midnight, and get stuck in a miles long traffic jam caused by a truck breaking down in the middle of a single lane bridge over the Ganges. As nothing moved for almost an hour before improvising souls found ways to make the car jump over a foot high divider, we wondered in the dead of the night, if that wasn't the epitome of present day India. Where 24 hour channels go into outrageous hyperbole on anything and everything. Where governments struggle to comprehend the difference between national pride and national shame. And where futile corporate slaves like us get a hotel to serve us dinner at 230 AM. Life goes on, I suppose. As usual.
I think we need sleep.
As I was saying last evening, all of these random nothings keep happening to life like it was a random nothing itself (is it?). We wonder and wonder, if there is something "funny" to be found in the mundane we normally ignore, and then we find it. Amusing to only the two of us I guess, the private joke nonetheless provides entertainment in what is otherwise just life as usual. As an aside, this life as usual business is really such a waste - every time someone says what's up these days, that's the only default, boring, true answer. Why is this the usual?
Anyhow, so we went to IIT Kanpur yesterday and had an okay event, I suppose. What a maggu campus it is, we wonder too. And then we try to drive to Lucknow at midnight, and get stuck in a miles long traffic jam caused by a truck breaking down in the middle of a single lane bridge over the Ganges. As nothing moved for almost an hour before improvising souls found ways to make the car jump over a foot high divider, we wondered in the dead of the night, if that wasn't the epitome of present day India. Where 24 hour channels go into outrageous hyperbole on anything and everything. Where governments struggle to comprehend the difference between national pride and national shame. And where futile corporate slaves like us get a hotel to serve us dinner at 230 AM. Life goes on, I suppose. As usual.
I think we need sleep.
8 comments:
:))
going back to college is always fun...so what if you were with ur stranger!!
"maggu campus" - that seems like a provocative remark made in order to get comments :D
since when did Phoenix need to resort to these tactics? :P
[chakoli]
I agree.
[Divesh]
That's not fair. I truly believe in that, with iit delhi junta as a reference point of course. I do not even have any IIT kanpur students or alums who read this blog as far as I know. Thats an unfair allegation - I always shoot stuff fairly bluntly whatever I think
You should know better.
:) ..tussi to aiwen hi offend ho gaye!
5 yrs back I would have argued on this iitk-iitd comparison par abhi sab fizool lagta hai!
btw, I do read your blog and I thought you knew :)
@Divesh ... She probably thinks of you as a junior of Einstein's, not Satyendra Dubey's :)
yaar kam se kam kisi scientist ka hi naam lete.. waise, that makes me realize ki utna popular scientist koi hai bhi nahi iitk se...
and this makes me realize that I am spamming this comment space now :D
I really didn't know, you know. But I should have guessed, given how you are a padne likhne wala bacha getting degrees in amreeka. :P When it comes to placements madness - awareness, CVs, jazz and fluff, IITD has become as bad as an IIM, and IITK stands out as way more maggu and naive. I stand by that, Einstein. :P
I definitely need a sleep. It is 2 pm in office. :P
Pathos ...
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