What I’ve observed in attending college/university cultural this year in Chennai are disturbing. I’ve been unable to blog for last 3-4 days for the precise reason I’ve managed to inveigle myself into a half a dozen college student meet programmes in Chennai. Broadly they’ve been entertaining and charming.
But what I’ve observed in a premier state government institution almost made be barf in front of the Raj Bhavan, the home and residence of the Governor of the State of Tamil Nadu, who is the chancellor of all the state governed universities in Tamil Nadu.
What I’ve observed is a dictatorial attitude on the part of the organisers of a competition, an attitude even their juniors in 3rd year were reportedly against.
What I observed was:
A group of student participants who rightfully thought and felt that they should have won the preliminary stages, decided to confront the organisers, the senior students of *the* preliminary institution for engineering in the state.
The answer they reportedly received was allegedly ‘we are the organisers, and we will decide on who qualifies’, which is both pathetic and worrisome.
I would have expected a student of such premier institutions in the state of TN to have been more transparent and thrown open to the protestors the decision making process - which by any normal, decent order of events should have been made public before.
But to go against any such decent, democratic process based on merit, in what is essentially open competition to judge the participants worth, the students who are expected to pass out this year have allegedly gone into a dictatorial mode.
For me personally, it makes no difference.
But I worry for the institution wherein they’ve encouraged such an attitude. Even therein, there is a glimmer of hope. The 3rd year students, a year junior to the organisers in question, who also sponsored their own competition within the same cultural, were straightforward and honest.
Not just because they disagreed with their seniors on this issue, but they expressly prohibited anyone from their own batch, department from participating.
And I worry about the institutions, even the Fortune 500 companies which would flock to the institution for their annual body shopping, in the name of campus interviews. Going by the trend, the dictatorial, my-way-is-right-way, probably would be selected. And if even one of them get to be in a top level managerial position in future, say, 15 to 30 years down the line, God alone would help the company, even if it is Fortune 500 one.
And I worry about the students too, the guys and gals who thought themselves too ‘good’ to say that ‘as organisers, they’ve the right to decide the qualifiers’. If they really have imbibed that attitude, then God help them in their future.
As I said, it almost made be barf in front of the Raj Bhavan, wherein the Governor of Tamil Nadu and the Chancellor of all TN Govt. Universities reside.
I am too disgusted to even search for an appropriate image. And the whole post has been abhorrent enough by itself to indulge a mad.madrasi take.
But what I’ve observed in a premier state government institution almost made be barf in front of the Raj Bhavan, the home and residence of the Governor of the State of Tamil Nadu, who is the chancellor of all the state governed universities in Tamil Nadu.
What I’ve observed is a dictatorial attitude on the part of the organisers of a competition, an attitude even their juniors in 3rd year were reportedly against.
What I observed was:
A group of student participants who rightfully thought and felt that they should have won the preliminary stages, decided to confront the organisers, the senior students of *the* preliminary institution for engineering in the state.
The answer they reportedly received was allegedly ‘we are the organisers, and we will decide on who qualifies’, which is both pathetic and worrisome.
I would have expected a student of such premier institutions in the state of TN to have been more transparent and thrown open to the protestors the decision making process - which by any normal, decent order of events should have been made public before.
But to go against any such decent, democratic process based on merit, in what is essentially open competition to judge the participants worth, the students who are expected to pass out this year have allegedly gone into a dictatorial mode.
For me personally, it makes no difference.
But I worry for the institution wherein they’ve encouraged such an attitude. Even therein, there is a glimmer of hope. The 3rd year students, a year junior to the organisers in question, who also sponsored their own competition within the same cultural, were straightforward and honest.
Not just because they disagreed with their seniors on this issue, but they expressly prohibited anyone from their own batch, department from participating.
And I worry about the institutions, even the Fortune 500 companies which would flock to the institution for their annual body shopping, in the name of campus interviews. Going by the trend, the dictatorial, my-way-is-right-way, probably would be selected. And if even one of them get to be in a top level managerial position in future, say, 15 to 30 years down the line, God alone would help the company, even if it is Fortune 500 one.
And I worry about the students too, the guys and gals who thought themselves too ‘good’ to say that ‘as organisers, they’ve the right to decide the qualifiers’. If they really have imbibed that attitude, then God help them in their future.
As I said, it almost made be barf in front of the Raj Bhavan, wherein the Governor of Tamil Nadu and the Chancellor of all TN Govt. Universities reside.
I am too disgusted to even search for an appropriate image. And the whole post has been abhorrent enough by itself to indulge a mad.madrasi take.
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