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Episode no.3 - Save General Class


Road to HSV  (Himachal State Vishwavidyalay)

Situated at a distance of 5 Km from the main city center of the paradise city, Himachal State Vishwavidyalay is a beautiful small campus located on an awe inspiring beautiful hill. It’s the only university in the country where you can enjoy the panoramic views of snow peaked mountains, and complete your higher education amidst picturesque rhododendron, silver oak, pine and deodar forests. A little station of the heritage toy train is just five minutes stroll away from the Teaching Departments of the University. The campus is spread approximately over an area of about 287.25 acres which homes teaching departments, library, offices, residential complexes, hostels, book shops, numerous eating joints and bountiful of dating Points. With its vibrant and lively crowd HSV is a small world in itself. It’s a sort of magical corner where one always wishes to come back.

The Batch Of 2008-2010

We are a batch of 90.What majority of us had in common was that we were a part of generation born between 1981-88s and what  we don’t have in common was 60 students were on free seats and 30 on paid seats. Almost all of us were IIMs rejects. All of us had messed our CAT, XAT, SNAP, etc examinations. Or it’s better to say that Blue Blooded Institutes (IIMs and other high ranking B- Schools) were not equipped enough or lucky enough to have us! So there it was - Imperial Business School (IBS) to our rescue! 

Long Live our Policy Makers

For getting into IBS, I cracked a test called I-CAT. Fortunately (for the very first time) I scored fairy good but unfortunately I was a part of general open category due to which I could lay my hands only on a paid seat. Out of 60 free seats almost 80% + seats here were reserved according to various quotas. It was sad and yet true that even in education sector policy makers use their divide and rule policy.

To anti-reservationists like me these things appear very ugly as some of best minds cant made their way into the campus because they don’t had any reservation. Some make it via paid route even after getting praiseworthy grades all due to this corrupt system. Don’t know about anything else, but if things continue this way, then one thing is for sure that soon General Class would also fall into endangered species and just like “save tigers”, “save general class” campaign will become really popular. However we should feel lucky and blessed that reservation and quota’s are not enforced everywhere. Had it been that way, imagine how our Cricket team would have looked like - 2 OBC, 2 SC, 2 ST, 1 Handicapped, 1Terrorist Affected, 1 Kashmiri Migrant, 1 MP & 1 Sports Persons. Similarly till date policy makers had not shown creativity in other spheres like our national games. For instance In the 100 meters race, a reserved category player could be given a gold medal if he runs 80. Anyway, jokes apart- INDIA is a GREAT country. Long live our Policy makers. Back to the topic…

If we omit the corrupt system, getting into the Imperial Business School was like a dream come true. The college had a 35 years old history of providing management education and according to stats the college always had decent placements (and it was always blessed with most beautiful girls of the University).

If I speak about academics, this place was just like another government college in the state, not the cutting edge in management, to head start your career but the perfect place where you could come have fun and ruin your career. The campus homes the best talent in the country but unfortunately it had a stupid rigid system guided by stupid old policies that ruins everything. In addition to this Politics was deep rooted in each and every sphere of the university, both Professors and students were divided on the basis of political parties they supported and the philosophies these parties had. The one thing that was missing was room for new ideas, new technologies and changes. NASA is invading Mars but our mark sheets were still handwritten.

No matter what, most of us were there not for learning. Screw the lectures, screw education; there was much more we did to make these four semesters the best time of our life.


EPISODES -  FUNSUTRA OF A RUINED MBA Degree...


episode - 1    Life Outside University Gates

episode - 2    Once Upon a Time in Shimla

episode- 3   Save General Class

episode-4  Fun and Frustrations of a Hostel Life 

episode 5 -  Fun-sutra of an Amusing Hostel Life    


episode 6 - Room no. S8, Buddha Hostel HSV


episode 7 - Room no. S9, Buddha Hostel HSV

episode 8-First set of love birds flew on an old Maruti 800…

 
episode (6-15)       Coming soon....