Bumper Offer for underpaid grad student ;) Live and let live

disclaimer: the opinion expressed here are my own. it is not the intention of the author to defame anyone, this one is just for laughs :)


Yay! July is here and IISc campus gears up for fresh faces. This year 850 new student will join IISc. So we have admitted so many more people, that is great, more the merrier they say. But oops! we forgot that these people also need to be accommodated in the existing hostels. What about the new hostels, the construction of which we have been witnessing for ages now? Well, well.. let us not get started on that (knowing more than i need to know about the new biology building construction fiasco).

It seems we are falling short of accommodation for the swarm of freshers. So additional accommodation arrangements have been made in all places you can imagine including Hoysala House, line quarters, Jawahar Guest House etc.

(suggestion: married apartments, health center, faculty quarters, the new nano building could be used as back-up options) :-p

Actually, it is really sweet of the admin to go out of their way to ensure that the poor unsuspecting, overenthusiastic freshers are not left 'roomless' as they pour in. However, in spite of all this effort we are still short of some 200 vacancies and the best brains (well..)of the country came up with the most alluring, economic solution to this 'unforeseen' problem: Live and let live!

The deal: As part of a bumper offer (an extension of centenary celebrations?) the underpaid student community has been given the option to share their single room with a fresher. The single rooms, which is barely enough for one person to live in, often come with a generous helping of damp and fungus and have blocked/flush-free toilets just a few steps away from them! Certainly the freshers will be excited to share these cozy rooms with their (great-grand and so on) seniors given the other option of not having a room at all. But the most exciting part of all this is that the benevolent senior gets 1 semester's hostel fee waived off!!! Yes, you heard it!! Isn't that an irresistible offer for an underpaid (or worse still... pensioned) grad student?

So people of IISc rush before you miss you chance. Only 200 lucky students get to avail of this exciting bonanza! Go get it!

a timid voice inside me says, is this fair to those 200 poor freshers who stand a good chance of not finding a room at all in case the students on campus dont find this economic deal exciting enough? she also wonders if it would have been better if we were honest about this little situation we are in and inform the freshers in advance (may be they have, or so i hope) and let them be prepared for the worst? Another option could be to give the student their HRA and add that bonanza prize money to the fresher's HRA to facilitate accommodation for 6 months off-campus?

I am not sure what is right or wrong but the news surely got be frozen in a state of coma for a few seconds!

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another not so funny update:

I lodged my first ever police compliant against an autowala in sadashivnagar police station today. I have noted down the number of autowalas several times in the past but never gathered enough motivation and/or courage to lodge a complaint. I did it today and I think I am glad about it.