This is Gangsta sh*t - The unusual begining

Well, what can I say, this blog post was due long back and I believe it is important to understand how the hostel inmates or the student community get along with their social life inside this campus. It took me almost one year to analyse the trends and make a record of them.

So let me not get into more formalities and get to the point straight away. And a warning to everyone, if you think you fit into any one of the descriptions, good for you because I am not taking any responsibilities for your broken feelings and I don't give a rat's ass about your backlashes or the "yeh tereko bahut bhaari padega wala" look.

Gang Name :- The Rostovs

Turf Areas - Food Court

Gang Description

This gang is present in every batch, it has a strength of 30 people to say the least. Usually seen hogging together in the food court, be it breakfast or lunch or dinner, nothing can break this family's will of hogging together.

This gang is easy to spot, if you find a group of clueless people roaming around without knowing where to go after their supper, you have found the Rostovs. This a powerful family and the family members are well protected.

It is nearly impossible to take them on single handedly, so please do it at your own peril.

Known Foes

Generally known for their peace loving ways, they don't have enemies as such. But they generate enemies dynamically when they go together for their midnight coffee, the order usually including 30 coffees and 30 maggies, its a sure thing that everyone else going to food court after that wont find anything.

Gang Name :-  Chirkut Gang

Turf Areas - Hostel Rooms (kahin aur nahi chalti inki)

Gang Description

I am going overboard here by calling them a gang, these gangsters come to life when everyone else is sleeping. Chirkuts can never be seen in the college most of the time as they are confined to their hostel rooms.

I can't say that they like being peace lovers, but to be frank they don't have any other option. This gang is famous for producing atleast one 4 pointer in every semester. This gang usually comprises of all boys or all girls with a  strength of atmost 5 people.

Known Foes
Well I would be glad to write anything here, you need strength to have foes and hence this section will be a simple N/A for this gang. (No hard feelings people)

Gang Name :- The Geek Squad

Turf Areas - All the labs and staff rooms

Gang Description

This is the uber geek squad and an almost exclusive gang where entry can only be earned by proving your coding prowess. Any solution with a complexity greater than O(nlogn), you will never be a part of this gang. The faculty loves this gang and this gang has the notoriety of churning out Algorithms and Data Management TA's.

Usually good at heart, but can be very cocky in class. They come up with solutions that are out of this world. Many wannabes who have tried gaining access to this elite club have been thrown out into such a dark hole of discreetness that they now fear to write even a prime number program or the much famed palindrome program. Never try to take the member of this gang even when you are in full strength because he/she can single handedly create a segmentation fault in your brain and can make a "file not found" out of you.

This gang may be small but their weapons of mass destruction includes Convex Optimization, Red Black Tree, Modified Heap Sort and a wide array of heuristics that even Karmarker  and Khachian would be proud of.

Known Foes - N/A simple because a certain individual once told me "Hisaab sey pishaap karo aur aukaat mein raho"

P.S :- There are still many gangs to cover and I believe if Peter Jackson can do this trilogy thingy, so can I.

There is "History" behind every engineer!

Follow your dreams they said, never give up they said, follow your heart they said and listen to your mind they said.  It all seemed fine until I realized, my dreams said one thing, my heart said another thing and clearly my mind said something else. Maybe this was the standard case of confusion that engulfed me into a rhetorical stateless state until my father came in and said “Son, it’s either my way or the highway!”

It was a moment of euphoria when I discovered that after my two years of hard work preparing for entrance examinations for engineering, I had managed to secure a BA Archaeology seat in the famed Loyola Academy, Secunderabad and No, I did not screw up my entrance exams.  Despite all this success, I was not happy pursuing my dream. This was clearly because my guilt conscience had started to overwhelm as I was on the verge of wasting my father’s pay-checks on two years of expensive training for nothing.

For me, the definition of passion was something different, my passion never told me what to do but it always made me to trust myself, which I think has been my biggest strengths. People talk about having passion for particular activity or hobby, but in my case the passion was all about fortifying the trust I had built between me and my conscience. For me, it was always about how truthful can I be to myself, and I feel passion inherently tells you that if your heart is not set into it, you better get out of it as soon as possible.

I knew archaeology was my forte, and I am saying this because history always fascinated me. I still remember the times I pleaded my father to go to museum, and I always wondered where the museum got its artifacts from. Be it the Archaeologists who burn their skin in the Egyptian deserts searching for lost tombs and pyramids or be it the paleontologists who spend their whole lives in search for prehistoric evidence of life on earth. 

I spent my childhood seeing documentaries on Discovery and History channel, and I must tell you, if mystery is something that turns you on, nobody does it better than these channels. I used to imagine myself exploring the thick forest regions in India, searching for ancient ruins, lost temples and ancient colonies.  The adrenaline rush I get the moment I think about being in an exploration team in charge of finding the lost city of Atlantis is truly unreal and out of this world.

There exists a fine line between being realistic and being impractical. This small difference could be the reason behind me being an engineer today instead of an archaeologist. It was never a question of suppressing my interests and goals in life, I was sure about me being an archaeologist, but it was never a feasible option for me as far as my financial future was concerned.

“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.” – Hillary Clinton

My father always had a major say in what I am today, for which I am grateful to him all my life. From the outside, my story of life would sound more like a boy whose dreams have been cut short by his parents, but in reality, if my father had not been their during my major decisions, I would have not seen the world I am seeing today.

I have seen movies where the kids feel vindicated when they prove their parents were wrong in interfering with their careers, I never understood that why on many occasions we kids forget our parent’s intentions in their interferences. My dad knew what was right for me and I trusted him, which was by far the sanest decision I have ever taken till date. I might not be an archaeologist today, but that does not stop me from being good in whatever I do. I do not have regrets in the decisions I took nor am I going to complain that my parents were wrong in interfering with my career interests. And this is where I say, trusting the person within me and understanding my parents were the two priceless lessons I have gained during important junctures of my life and as far as my interest towards archaeology goes, the archaeologist inside me will be alive for ages to come.

“It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” – Carlton Fisk

The road less taken - a journey with douches and jerks!

Never knew things would fly so fast here in Bengaluru, not that I hate when time flies, but it did seem too fast. Now I am going to use the most common phrase mentioning this year as "Roller Coaster" ride, met new folks, some I liked, some I din't. For the ones who are on the evil list, no offence folks, that's who I am, if I like a person I make sure I do everything to be the reason for their smile, even if that involves cracking a joke on myself, just anything.

If anyone of you see your name in this blog entry, then you have at some point of time made a mark in my life

Uddipan Dutta - Pocket sized dynamite. My Brother from far North East. A glorified jerk with a heart, a combination I thought would never exist. Green revolution and global warming enthusiast. He takes pride in pissing off people and zipping their mouth. Talks of finishing blood lines and family trees. Please advice caution.

Prateek Singhai - He is the epitome of humour, he himself does not know what it means to bring a smile on someone's face, and this guy does this on a regular basis. A passionate Indori, will do anything in exchange of 'sev parmal'.

Vineet Joseph Kumar - Evil, Pure Evil. This lad is good at politely saying how shameless and jobless you can be, which each one of you would gladly smile and accept as if he has just praised you. Has a knack of identifying stupidity at an alarming speed. Warning, Please don't piss him off, he has very low tolerance for stupidity !

Vikas Korjani - Can be irritating, but to say the least, he knows when to talk and what to talk. He has been there for me when i needed help. I will remember this!

Jatin Chaudhary - Well being the chairperson of Nawab Mukti Morcha, this guy can be a douche at times but he is good at saying "you suck" on the face, for which people thank him. On the other hand, he is the guy I would go to when I am confused and need genuine advice. He has been more like an elder brother I did not have.

Rahul Venkataramani - Yes, Mr. Maanik Baasha, well I do not know if I have a 'paandu kismat', but I was forced to be his alarm clock for a whole year. Apart from his disturbing sleep habits, we kind of share the same tastes in terms of music and literature interests. Top Guy!

Maninya - Not sure if I should say this, but what the hell. She knows her game, carries herself well and can be wicked. Has been a ray of hope to all the tambrahms who have taken the road less taken. If in future when machines rise against humans, we both are going to kick some serious metal butts. Because we both believe that the 'FORCE' is always with us! *hi 5*

Sangeetha - My initial impressions of her were that of an innocent and sweet girl. Well I was right about the sweetness, but definitely not innocent. She knows what being independent is all about. I was impressed!


Amrita Kaur - First impressions can always be wrong, and I was vindicated of this fact with this bindaas person. She is like the little sister I do not have. Good company, good critic and she makes this amazing bhel poori!

Sumit  - Our very own version of Peter Parker, there are very few on this planet whom he tolerates. Utters words that make sense in situations deemed as senseless.

Priyadarshini - The poor soul who has tolerated me for close to a year. Insanely down to earth and extremely good at sleeping. But on the bright side, a good friend!


P.S: If your names do not appear in this blog post, please do not be under the impression that you have made it to the other list. It's just that I am lazy a** ranter. For those who shall not be named, Winter is coming!

Thanks to the people mentioned above, I will always cherish my first year at IIIT Bangalore.

Disclaimer: Those who think I am no one to judge people let me make this very clear, this is my blog, my perception and my ideas. You would be mistaken if you thought you had a say in it!

Later,
Karthik Kunjithapatham

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AARAMBH HAI PRACHAND!

For once I wished somebody knocked my hostel room door and said " Sir Loondry", the fact that weekends are awesome, but when you look at the pile of clothes that needed some cleaning, you really start to realize that, weekends can actually make you feel grumpy.

Coming to the point, the college is on high spirits after the end of the prep sem, well for a certain few like me, retest(s) loom, but for most of the gyanis, things to look forward are the SAC elections.

SAC, the CCA wing of IIIT B, is in search for dynamic personalities who can transform and inspire the rest of students to showcase what they are really made of. For one reason, if i started showcasing my talent, then i guess a certain dance industry existing in Bombay would have a problem with me.

In the best interests of the students, I would personally like to recommend a certain Jatin Chaudhary. Many would ask on why a vote should be directed on someone without knowing about an individual's caliber towards decision making and leadership qualities. Many remained puzzled on who would be the ideal candidate, and started browsing every face and ask, is he/she the one?

Few individuals came to a conclusion that it is important to search for the candidates, a special body was needed which can identify the chosen ones, so that the responsibility of SAC falls in good hands.

The need for a dynamic leader looked imminent, the fellowship of the individuals was named as Nawab Mukti Morcha whose only goal was to search for a leader. The fellowship spent a lot of time thinking in the loo on who would actually lead by example, and one fine thursday morning, all the committee members had come up with one name, none other than, our dada, Jatin Chaudhary.

On friday night, NMM proudly announced Jatin as the party leader, the unofficial statistics confirmed that Jatin has a stiff competition to face, but we were confident and we always cheered, "YES...HE CAN!".

NMM party workers welcome everyone to join them in their occasional slogan chants

"Nawab mukti morcha...aaahooo...aaahooo(300 style)"

Jatin's and NMM's party pillars

1. Banish the groupism based on regional backgrounds
2. Prateek and Vikas Chacha's music classes for all
3. Birthday cakes are for eating, holi colors are for playing
4. No obscure* display pics on fb/twitter/myspace/orkut
5. Ban on aandu pandu status updates like "going to take a crap" or "going to sleep" on social networking media

* - (meaning no Sheila, sachin, rajni kanth, kung fu panda, rahul gandhi, balakrishna, Inspector Daya, ACP Pradyumn ,etc)

NMM followers now know who deserves a place in SAC, and now its time for you to decide if Jatin deserves a spot or not, I leave the decision to you!

In the end, I leave you with your ideal candidate Jatin, feel free to stop and interact with him, SAC member or not, he is always a leader and we love our dada.

P.S: Doing laundry on sunday is a very bad idea!

later

Karthik Kunjithapatham

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