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The Three Idiots

Once upon a time in a forest called IIT Madras lived three close friends. Like everyone else around, they had gone through the rigorous training that one undergoes in IITM: mess food, shortage of chicks etc.. They say that if you can live through your B.Tech here, you can live through anything. So they had finished their respective courses; the Elec guy had decided to study further and was moving abroad for the same; the Comp Sci guy got a nice paying job in some obscure Bangalore company. the Aero guy was still looking for one..

So to celebrate the time they had at college, they decided to call some arbit freshie..lets call him Golguppa and “interacted” with him through the night. The next day on their way to Gurunath, they were kidnapped by the GCU. They had committed the unforgivable crime of ragging a freshie. They were soon tried by the Disco and sentenced to death by the electric chair.

So one by one, they were taken to the execution room. The Comp Sci guy went first. He was asked if he had any last words to speak. He said, “I believe in god. God will save me.”. They tried to electrocute him. But nothing happened to him. So they said, “God is truly great.” and let him free. The Aero guy went next. They asked him if he had any last words too. He said, “I believe in science. Science shall save me.”. They tried to electrocute him too. But nothing happened to him too. So they said, “Science is great” and they let him free. The Elec guy was the last one to enter. They asked him for any last words. The Elec guy replied, “If you dumbasses don’t plug in the mains of the Electric Chair, there is no way it is going to work!”.

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And they lived happily ever after

This is IIT, where there are a total of ten people on campus, five of whom do weed, eight are usually too drunk to attend classes, and every other person has either attempted suicide or made out with his professor’s daughter. Not to forget the perpetual muggu, who covers his window panes with black paper, so as to protect himself from the gaze  of 7 pointers. This is where people risk their lives, doing stunts even Batman would be proud of to get their hands on a question paper. Yes. This is IIT. Five Point Someone is probably the most factually incorrect book ever written; this guy actually praises MS Word(Open Office anyone??).

Chetan Bhagat should have been a Bollywood script writer; His books are a perfect recipe for success. There is a hero. There are his sidekicks. There is a chick. There is her evil father.There is action. There is tragedy. There is comedy(the farce that comes from IITians). And at the end, everyone lives happily ever after.

The other day I read his latest book; the one called “Two States”. All he has done is pitched Punjabis against Tam Brahms and poked fun at eccentric ways that supposedly exist among them. I read this book with no expectations whatsoever, and it turned out be a fascinating read, just to notice the amount of exaggeration in the it. What makes it popular amongst people is that there are not too many people who know about the lives and the ways of an average Punjabi as well as a Tam. They usually end up laughing at the other(you may want to read this later if you like this).

Now for some clarifications. There are 4000 people on campus. I do not do weed; hardly anyone does it here. I do not go drunk to classes. I have not tried to commit suicide since I joined. I have not made out with my Professor’s daughter yet. I do not have black paper on my window panes; I will probably end up getting close to an 8 pointer anyway. I have not tried dropping ropes from the roof in order to get into my Prof’s office at night; all their rooms are on the ground floor. MS Office sucks. And I am an IITian.