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In the 125th year of St Stephen's College, EcoSoc invites you to participate in the National Level General Quiz.

Date : 20-12-2005

Venue : College Auditorium

Time :  Elims 9:30 AM

            Finals 11:00 AM

Quizmasters : T.V.H Prathamesh

                       Abhishek Panda

Cash Prizes :

1st : Rs.4000

2nd : Rs.2000

3rd : Rs.1000

see you there!

All humans are born special.some are more special than others.Ok,that was an extremely horrible take on orwell, but some really special ppl had their birthdays this week.

A message from someone is sometimes all it takes for a depressing week to turn brilliant.Aditya aka ditty is one of those 'someones'.Smiling assasin and a fellow tripper who is all set to charm the belles of cochin. Belated Happy B'day Da!

chandu aka anirudh aka pods is the only guy to have ever claimed that he wanted to be "just like me". Soon enough,i realised that it was'nt much of a compliment.He doesnt think calling him a 'nice guy' is a compliment either.but that still does'nt do away with the fact that he is one of the 'nicest guys' i've known. Happy B'day!

love you guys!

 

About an year and a quarter back, I was flooded with calls from family,friends and the like just to make sure that i was alive.

It was the day which came to labelled as Black monday, when four blasts rocked mumbai killing many and injuring a lot more.

It happened all over again last saturday.Similar blasts,similar calls and a similar sight of blood and gore on television screens.

Over Inquisitive friendly neighbourhood uncles...they're everywhere..

Few places in the world look as lovely as chennai does during rains....

So here i am back home after a few terribly exciting weeks..trying to juggle my time between VH1,Kaapi and some math when im bored of everything else...

My first term finally ended on sep 30th with motherjane doing a cover of floyd's time(guess who asked for it) at harmony...brilliant end to an otherwise boring term...

managed to steal two days to make a long due trip to bombay or rather xaviers to be more precise on oct 1 on my way back from delhi...

high pointsof the trip?....staying in hostel again....lukkhagiri in foyer..listening to kadiri at img..giving sermons on parliamentary debating...lunch at D'SM(doctors mess for the uninitiated) with menon and abu..bus stand routine with mayur..booze at gokul with arjun and sudarsan discussing err well the "philosophy of science" (considering that i was half drunk,conversation wasnt even half as impressive as i make it sound)... and the kaapi at cafe madras with.....!!!

How i wish my hostel friends were there too

But i guess...life goes on...but why?

"after school...they went straight to heaven or to its equivalent on earth - St Xavier's College"

-Kiran Nagarkar,Ravan and Eddie

The recent drought in my quizzing fortunes ended finally...

This time with winning the first place in the india quiz at AIIMS..

1984 was the year when life began in a small hospital in suburbs of Mumbai. As the time passed, I found myself singing nursery rhymes,reading mishas/amar chitra katha,not doing homework,matriculating,playing cricket,joining college,bunking lectures,.quizzing,graduating.. ;It also took the same time span for the nation to realize that riots of 1984 were little more than accidental.That Jagdish Tytler is probably guilty, .That Kamalnath,Sajjan kumar and Tandon were also ‘probably involved’ .
1984 according to orwells predictions, would be the year when the world would be reeling under totalitarian regimes and allow themselves to be fooled by the state run propaganda machines.It was probably nothing more than a pure coincidence that it was the year in which Indira Gandhi (who to date symbolizes absolute power) was killed by her own bodyguards. It took little more than few hours for the congress to mobilize its ‘sympathesizers’ to launch a massacre on the sikh community of delhi.
While one did’nt really expect much from a certain Rajiv Gandhi,One did’nt really expect him to justify it either ‘when the big tree falls,the earth is bound to shake”.(now you know who inspired modi’s Newtonian laws). It was also the same Rajiv Gandhi who once stated the “bhrindanwale is a spiritual man” back during the heydays of congress bhridanwale love affair(before he chose to tread the path of frankensteins monsten).
1984 still remains the biggest success story of the government propaganda machines. The nation conveniently chose to ignore the riots and elected Rajiv Gandhi in the 1985 elections with a majority previously unheard of in Indian parliament. The home minister then late went on to become the Prime minister of India Back during my second year in xavier’s, I remember walking out of a movie screening/discussion session on operation blue star which soon degenerated into a secular congress v/s communal bjp debate(thanks to the innumerable bird brains inhabiting the campus). Its suprising how 21 yrs after the riots congress still claims to be the torch bearer of secularism in india and a vast chunk of people choose to believe it.

'I feel like a refugee in my own country,Like a jew in nazi germany'
-Khushwant singh

Life in st stephens campus remains as insulated from the world as ever even as the state acting on behalf of corporates unleashes the "law enforcers" on workers. P Sainath says all that I wanted to say about it and more in yesterdays edition of The hindu.
Link:http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005072806201000.htm&date=2005/07/28/&prd=th&