Fresher's party

We had a fresher’s party day before, finally. There was a lot of hue and cry about fund raising for the event. While the donators doubted credibility of the organizers, the organizers retorted saying the senior batch (i.e. my batch) is either too ‘kanjus’ to part with the money or they had a ‘jaani-dushmani’ with the juniors.
Anyways, the party took place, thanks to the organizers whose untiring efforts paid off.
The list of programs included
• Drinks (Both hard and soft)
• DJ

WTF !!!!!!!!!!

My earlier perception about a fresher party was that there are certain events (could be game show, live performance..etc), followed by food, drinks, dj and stuff like that. Basically it provides a platform where seniors and juniors interact.

Coming back to the topic, I don’t know whether this ‘fresher’s’ party did perform the basic function of interaction. But what I certainly do know is that this isn’t something we should be proud off and this isn’t something our juniors are going to remember. Yes, for some time to come they will remember the 10-12 pegs they downed or the no. of times they vomited or the way they were carried off to rooms.

Not only fresher’s, whenever there is any sort of program this institute seems to be following the 2D model i.e. daru and dj….be it annual fest, senior’s farewell or whatever it is. People drink like fish, dance through the night to the tunes of some cheap Hindi music and attend next day’s lecture with a bad headache.

Ok..I might have started to sound like the good old grandfather. So let me make myself clear that I am not averse to either of drinking or dancing. It is definitely an integral part of events like fresher’s, farewell etc. But I just cannot come to terms with the idea of daru and dj being the sole components of a program.

You could also say that since 80% of the people are enjoying then what’s wrong in that?!

This isn’t a question of right or wrong. This is an issue of real distortion of concept of merry-making. This is about degradation of one’s own independent thought processes. Just because you are at a place where drinking and dancing is deemed hip and cool is it really necessary to be part of the process???

Also all day long we talk about innovation, creativity etc. Then why are we still following the model of partying framed by the devilish mind of some ‘vella’ people, year after year. Can’t we have something that is more suited to an educational institute.

Again you will change only when you feel the need to change. And we don’t have time to stop, think and understand. So it goes on… :-)