If you are prohibited to enter the precinct of the women's hostels, if you are almost under the round-the-clock surveillance of CCTV cameras, if you are in a chaotically overcrowded (only) mess, if you share your small hostel room with your fellow(s), though you can see many incomplete rooms above your rooms, if you visit the library and discover the new arrival section empty and the journal section welcoming you with desolated wooden book racks, and if you encounter the Nano-car sized, dusty, rugged, and only playground, then you are in the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
If you wake up in the morning and are undecided about your daily food arrangement, if you compromise to eat substandard and tasteless food in prehistoric looking cafeteria or the oily breakfast of the roadside vendors, if you walk into the Gothic corridors (littered with stinking garbage) during power-cuts, if you find the back entrance locked at 10.30 pm every night, if you pay around Rs 5000 towards mess deposit and discover it shut down, if you want to watch a cricket match and do not find a TV set for entertainment, then you are the newly-joined certified boarder of the Basheer Men's Hostel of the same university.
It hardly matters for us even after three weeks are gone since the commencement of the new academic year at the university. No wonder if the new male students struggle for getting food in time in the only mess that runs for us, because the men's hostel mess is waiting for minimum 100 members to join so that it can function. Those students have to hunt for food and attend the classes in time, so that there should not be attendance shortage at the end of the semester. It is all known to us that since last four years, almost every door of the first two floors of the Basheer hostel is knocked to pull up the internet connections, because the top four floors are not internet-equipped. The state of stagnation in terms of sports and games and cultural activities and the warehouse-type gymnasium fail to keep the general health intact. And the old residents feel that 'the paradise is lost.'
NB- While writing this post, there is no intention to demean the reputation of the university and its various institutions, but the whole idea is to foreground the problems we face. We all know that the discipline and the academic regularization are the achievement of our university in the recent past, but here, the purpose is to persuade the university to shake its resigned torpor.
If you wake up in the morning and are undecided about your daily food arrangement, if you compromise to eat substandard and tasteless food in prehistoric looking cafeteria or the oily breakfast of the roadside vendors, if you walk into the Gothic corridors (littered with stinking garbage) during power-cuts, if you find the back entrance locked at 10.30 pm every night, if you pay around Rs 5000 towards mess deposit and discover it shut down, if you want to watch a cricket match and do not find a TV set for entertainment, then you are the newly-joined certified boarder of the Basheer Men's Hostel of the same university.
It hardly matters for us even after three weeks are gone since the commencement of the new academic year at the university. No wonder if the new male students struggle for getting food in time in the only mess that runs for us, because the men's hostel mess is waiting for minimum 100 members to join so that it can function. Those students have to hunt for food and attend the classes in time, so that there should not be attendance shortage at the end of the semester. It is all known to us that since last four years, almost every door of the first two floors of the Basheer hostel is knocked to pull up the internet connections, because the top four floors are not internet-equipped. The state of stagnation in terms of sports and games and cultural activities and the warehouse-type gymnasium fail to keep the general health intact. And the old residents feel that 'the paradise is lost.'
NB- While writing this post, there is no intention to demean the reputation of the university and its various institutions, but the whole idea is to foreground the problems we face. We all know that the discipline and the academic regularization are the achievement of our university in the recent past, but here, the purpose is to persuade the university to shake its resigned torpor.
I must say, I am privileged having known this Strong Writer, Bhavesh Kumar. I wish and pray, your writing gets more and more readers and you pass on this skill to innumerable. long live this writing spirit of yours.
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