ECONOMICA

Well, The Great Indian Economics festival Arthotsav is right around the corner of a corner. So, in order to make sure that our pals from other colleges don't suffer from a lack of information and assume Arthotsav to be an Art festival (on second thouhts, it does seem a good name for an art festival) we arranged for a Contigent Leader(CL) Meet. Arthotsav deals with how you can allocate your best brains to those events where the returns would be most optimum and profitable. Yes, it's just an Economics themed fest. But but BUT before you roll your eyes and start droning on how boring an economics fest would be, we've made sure that the Contingent Leaders of your college know that it's not so. The meet was scheduled in order to brief the CLs about the events and also get a feel of the huge campus. The host college team took great efforts to make the CL's feel at home. True to their promise, the CL's were very well fed and watered by Team Arthotsav. Not that t...

Queues. What is it about queues that brings about the kind of vile hostility in a civilised society like ours? It’s that one word which every Indian detests wholeheartedly. There seems to be a queue for everything that not one person willingly adheres to. Thereupon, giving rise to a syndicate of ‘lane cutters’. While others may deem it to be an unethical practice, these ‘lane cutters’ quite unabashedly, claim themselves to be some sort of VIPs.  VIP or not, the only queue they give some regard to (sans the lament about the growing Indian population) is the queue for entering the temples. There are people of all statuses and from different walks of life, awaiting their chance to seek the blessings of God. I was one among them too. I stood there, waiting patiently for people to finish giving their spiel of an extensive wish list to God so that I could supplicate my own. Then, my focus shifted to this little girl that stood right ahead of me, growing more and more impatient ...