Vol 2 Issue 2 September 10

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Suraksha 010

Campus Celebrations 010

Cultural Activities 011

Ping! Recommends 011

Pun Unintended 011

Our experience at
Model United Nations 100

Freshers 100

Change in syllabus
of Computer Prog. 101

Agony Aunt 101

Alumni Interview 110

Pen Stand:
Human Values 111
Editorial
Ragging as a concept isnt new to the world. As early as in
1626; in his novel, Francisco de Quevedo included scenes of stu-
dents hacking, as it is known in America. In 1684 Joseph
Webb was expelled from Harvard for hazing. From the hostels
of Indian universities, to the Greek-letter societies of Ivy
League, it has made its presence felt everywhere. The omnis-
cient Wikipedia describes hazing as a term used to describe
various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse
or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
Initiating, really? Why do we do it behind closed doors then?
Of course the freshmen need to be initiated. It is the first
time for them away from family and surrounded by strangers.
Trust me, we would be doing them a great service by
interacting with them, sharing a few laughs, sometimes at
their expense, sometimes at ours; helping them come to terms
with the drastic lifestyle change they have just undergone. But
dont we all forget the difference between having fun and
jeering? It is curious how that happens, especially since the
demarcation is pretty hard to miss. It certainly isnt an honest
mistake. How else does one explain all the stealth and precau-
tions that go into making the incidents inconspicuous?
Dont get me wrong, a majority of freshmen actually look
forward to meeting their seniors. And this is in spite of them
being fully aware of the high probability that such meetings will
be laced with hazing. Many of them actually enjoy it, untill we
pull out the humiliation card. Says an alumnus in this issue,
one of the most memorable moments of my college life is
when I was made to sell black tickets during my ragging.
Given the events of the past few days, I ask myself, is it
that hard to be considerate? Just because I felt the brunt of
ragging doesnt mean that they have to too. Taking the high
road isnt very difficult in this case; I just got to stop being sadis-
tic. And the last time I checked, it wasnt a trait, so I think I will
be well rid of it. Dont you?
Nitish Tripathi
[email protected]

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Suraksha
Striving for Shining India

Suraksha is a concept that we, a small team
of about 5 students from the UG2K7 batch came
up with. This idea was motivated from Goonj's
initiative of Vastra Samman which is a national
wide awareness program along with collection
campaign. Suraksha aims at organising a collec-
tion drive within the institute, so as to lend a
helping hand to Goonj. So our team began with
our first collection drive that was held from 4th to
15th April 2010. It had an overwhelming response
from the students. About two thousand shirts/t-
shirts, a thousand jeans/trousers, five hundred
suits, hundred pairs of foot wear and other mate-
rials like bags, bed sheets, stationery, etc. were
collected.
With an aim to inspire and involve a diverse
group of students from different walks of life, our
group, which had started with its roots in IIIT-
Hyderabad has now begun to spread to many
other institutes in Hyderabad.
Recently, the team of Suraksha successfully
celebrated the Joy Of Giving Week (September
27th to October 3rd) by conducting some activi-
ties. One of the activities was Vastrasamman,
which is a collection drive. Another activity taken
up by our team was a visit to two orphanages and
spending time with the kids. We believe that by
taking out some time from our lives and spending
with them makes their day a special one. About
fifty students from the college participated in this
visit to the orphanages. Similar visits to orphan-
ages had been conducted last year too during
Rakshabandhan and Diwali. Our next plan is to
conduct a career workshop in government schools
to motivate the youngsters to continue with their
education and expose them to various future
prospects, like the options they have, the various
scholarships programmes that can help fund their
studies, etc.
We are working on a mechanism to set up a
small processing center in our college itself, by
which the collection that we have, can be used to
meet the needs of the people in our neighbour-
hood.
Since this concept is just at its initial stage,
we hope that with the co-operation of more peo-
ple, we would be able to fulfill our aim to make a
better nation, a shining India.
Links and photos containing more informa-
tion about Suraksha can be found in the online
copy of this article, which can be found at:
http://ping.iiit.ac.in/
Campus Celebrations
Janmashtami and Ganesh Puja

The festivals are like a map charting our
spiritual progress in God". The saying held true, as
the festive season in IIIT got a kick start with the
arrival of Janmashtami and Ganesh Chaturthi. The
enthusiasm was very evident in such an atmos-
phere of spirituality and gaiety, as the entire IIIT
family came together to celebrate these two aus-
picious events.
Krishna Janmashtami, the festival com-
memorating the birth of Lord Krishna, was cele-
brated in our college on the 2nd of September
with religious fervor. A special Sri Krishna pooja
was held a day before at midnight, when Lord
Krishna is said to have made his divine appear-
ance in this world. A well-designed frame with a
picture of Radhakrishna was decorated with flow-
ers and a series of lamps were placed in front of
it. Many bhajans and kritis of Lord Sri Krishna
were performed and sung with cheers. Some of
the hymns with rhythmic taalams and claps were
also recited as a part of the celebration. Many slo-
gans were raised in the praise of Lord Krishna.
bhajans like "Choti choti gaiya.." and many others
were sung and the celebration of the first day
came to an end with the aarti to Lord and distri-
bution of prasaad. The most eagerly awaited ac-
tivity was the grand Matkiphod or the Dahi
Handi ceremony, which took place in the volley-
ball court near cafeteria as a part of the second
day celebration of Janmashtami. It was jovially
and skillfully executed by a group of excited stu-
dents in front of an equally excited audience,
where students climbed upon each other in the
form of a human pyramid and broke the Dahi
Matkas which were tied to a rope at different
heights. The entire ceremony of Dahi handi as
well as popular Gopalkala ensured that everyone
enjoyed in midst of a light drizzle that late night
and made this event much more arresting than
what anybody had originally thought of.
To add to this, the previous month also saw
the arrival of our beloved Ganpati Bappa as his
beautiful idol was placed in the Guest house on
11th September. Daily prayers and bhajans were
organised for the next 9 days in the guest house
itself. Students, faculty and alumni came in to join
these prayers to pay their respect to their deity
and seek his blessings. The biggest spectacle took
place on the 19th of September, when the visar-
jan was scheduled. The programme started with
the usual bhajans and kritis of Lord Ganesha and
an aarti was performed at the end. The idol of
Ganpati was taken all round the campus with en-
ergetic singing and dancing accompanied with
loud yells of Ganpati Bappa Moriya. And we fi-
nally bid our farewell to Ganpati as his idol was
finally immersed in the Osman Sagar lake with the
hope of his early arrival next year.
Our next plan is to conduct a career
workshop in government schools to motivate
the youngsters to continue with their educa-
tion...
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Cultural Activities


Dumb-C
The Dumb-Charades competition popularly
known as 'Dumb-C' was held on 17th September,
2010 in the Nilgiri building. There were a total of
60 participants comprising of 20 teams (5 from
each house). The enthusiasm and excitement of
the participants as well as the visitors was worth
seeing.
The event proceeded in 3 rounds. In the first
round, 5 movies were given to each team of 3
members, one of whom acted and the other two
guessed. Sixty seconds were allotted to each team
for this task. There was loud hooting and cheering
in the room all through the evening and it could
be heard from the main gate of the campus too.
After the first round, the top 8 teams moved for-
ward to the second round, in which each team
was assigned the name of a famous personality, a
book and a brand. Each team was given 90 sec-
onds for completing the task. It was fun watching
the participants trying hard with their acting. The
final round consisted of only three teams. In the
final round, four movies (to be guessed in 60 sec-
onds) were given to each team. It was a lot of en-
joyment for the players as well as the audience.
The first and second position went to Prithvi
house and the third place was captured by a
group belonging to Vayu house. It was a fantastic
night for everyone present.

Sketching
After a lot of postponements , the sketching
competition finally took place on the 30th of Sep-
tember. There were a lot of entries from each
house, so much so that short listing was required
in some houses.
The theme was Conversations, an interest-
ing topic, and a lot of unique sketches were made.
Besides the participants, it was fun work for the
'stay-backs' too who got the privilege of going
through the variety of sketches after the competi-
tion. Some of the memorable sketches were one
depicting a conversation between a mother and
her son, a typical 'gmail' conversation and others.
The competition proved that the creative minds
of IIIT could think to infinity and beyond! The re-
sults are awaited, and you will be updated soon. :)

Collage
If you can make sense out of scattered, ir-
relevant pieces of information and pictures, col-
lage is just the thing for you. Last week IIIT stu-
dents got the opportunity to do the same. The
participants were asked to depict Heritage using
the newspaper cuttings provided. Despite the lim-
iting constraints of time and pictures the teams
depicted the idea in numerous ways, spanning
from 'Heritage of India' to the 'Worlds Heritage'
and its importance. The teams were very enthusi-
astic and worked with immense concentration.
The collages are still under evaluation as the col-
lege moves ahead with more cultural and sports
events this month.

Ping! Recommends

Food:
For those with midnight food cravings, there
is a person who sells samosas and bread-omelet
opposite DLF main gate from 12-2:30 am (Mon-
Fri). The food seems more than heavenly during
night and many IIITians can be seen gorging on it.

Book:
Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi

Movies:
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
A 2010 American drama film directed
by Oliver Stone. It is a sequel to the 1987
film Wall Street. Set in New York City, the film
takes place 23 years after the original and re-
volves around the 2008 financial crisis.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of GaHoole
A 2010 computer-animated fantasy film,
directed by Zack Snyder, loosely based on the first
three books (The Capture, The Journey, and The
Rescue) of the series Guardians of
Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky.

Quotes:
Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatner


Pun Unintended
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Our Experience at
The Model United Nations

MUN, Model United Nations, provides a
platform to students from various reputed col-
leges and schools to address global concerns,
through discussions and debates over a period of
three days. They don the identity of delegates
from various nations in simulations of different
United Nations committees. The conference,
along with testing public-speaking skills, nudges
the participants towards finding fresh solutions
for problems faced by the member states. VIT-
MUN satisfied the definition of an ideal MUN ,
with around 180-odd delegates participating in
the conference lasting three eventful days.
All of us were allotted different countries to
represent in different committees. The profes-
sionalism involved in conducting the conference is
worth mentioning. For everything, from 'making
an important point in debate' to ask 'permission
to be excused', we had to raise a point of order
or a point of personal privilege. It was as if the
code of conduct left a permanent impression on
us even as we spoke about other things, way after
the adjournment of sessions.
It really tested our convincing ability when
we had to set aside our personal opinion and stick
to our countrys stand. Another thing that we had
to keep in mind was that the decisions which
were being taken were for the whole country and
some for the whole world. It provided us a great
learning experience and very good exposure to
topics of global importance. We got to interact
with people who were both aware of interna-
tional affairs and were able to put forth their
views in a clean, concise and an unequivocal way.
Some of us also got a chance to rub shoulders
with people who were great with yielding the pen
and, during the three days that we were there,
often managed to put the orators in a tight spot.
The closing ceremony witnessed the distin-
guished chief guests with illustrious careers as na-
tion builders, peace-keeping officers etc. sharing
their points of view and experiences, one being,
earlier I thought there were two worlds, the
United Nations on one side and the rest, but now
I feel there are three worlds, with the Model
United Nations as the third world...
Meeting interesting people hailing from dif-
ferent parts of the country and sharing their ex-
periences enabled us to gain a lot of knowledge,
insight and confidence. Presenting a multifarious
combination of research, presentation skills, con-
flict resolution, compromise and cooperation, it
proved to be a youthful world council with more
energy and creativity than that displayed by many
actual political organisations.

Freshers

Freshers is one night that every IIIT'ian cher-
ishes and remembers. It makes every newcomer
experience the oft-quoted phrase that "college
life is not all about studies". After two years of
arduous toil and all nighters, this event shows
them the life beyond Newton, Gauss, Kekule,
Faraday et al. It is also a welcome presage of a
long, revelling journey of 4/5 years wherein they
make new friends, try out things theyd never
tried out, make mistakes and more importantly
learn from them.
This year the freshers a.k.a. Cultural Show-
case was held on 28 August at Felicity Ground.
The event commenced with a performance by
Agni house, who performed a skit on different cul-
tures in India. The skit depicted the ethnic, reli-
gious and cultural pluralism of India. Vayu house
tried to show the disparity in opportunities be-
tween rural and urban India, the chasm between
have's and have not's. Prithvi house portrayed the
forgotten adage that "bags of gold can never buy
the hapiness you are hunting for", in today's ma-
terialistic world. Finally, Aakash house showed
how the coaching system at +2 level is training
students and not educating them. It also pre-
sented how a student is forced by the society to
do things which give the highest ROI (Return on
Investment). The performances culminated after
a dazzling performance by Venkatesh who got a
well-deserved standing ovation. This was followed
by Mr. and Ms. Freshers for PG students.
The night was a product of hard work and
sheer talent of the First-years. Despite assign-
ments and mid-sems they were able to put up a
huge show. However, this year's freshers set
some new precedents, such as it was for the first
time that dinner was served before the house
performances (in hindsight this is something we
should do for all events), the coloured backdrop
with bleeding cowboys was also quite unexpected
and it was also for the first time that we did not
have Mr. and Ms. Freshers for UG1.
Mr. Violin Vasu and Mr. Vedant Kidambi
who were the judges for the night announced the
results. Aakash stood first (second time in a row),
Agni second, followed by Prithvi and Vayu for
third positions. In nutshell as BEP would have
said, "That night was a good night".
..a product of hard work and
sheer talent of the First-years.
Despite assignments and mid-sems
they were able to put up a huge
show...
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Ask any IIITian Which course has been the
most memorable, adventurous, dramatic and full
of learning? The answer will invariably be: C Pro-
gramming!! Yes, from a course curriculum point
of view, its a complete package in itself - compris-
ing weekly lectures, lab sessions, round the clock
assignments, a mini-project, lab tests and mid-end
semester examinations. The full-semester course
of Computer Programming nurtures budding cod-
ers in the best possible way so that they can at-
tain greater success in the coming years. It may
seem like a roller-coaster ride to many rookies but
in the end it compels every student to realize that
there couldnt have been a better way to start
programming.
As many of you might be aware, the new
course curriculum of Computer Programming
(implemented from the academic year 2010-11)
deems it as a half-semester course which is to be
started after the first mid-semester examinations.
Though this may sound relaxing to some (current
UG1) but others (senior batches) are of the opin-
ion that it is not a wise decision. They maintain
that CP, most important subject of first semester,
is the reason behind the high rank of IIIT students
in various coding contests. Also, as many B.Tech
courses extensively utilize and build upon the ba-
sic concepts taught in this course, it is imperative
for everyone to have a good grip over the same.
As the course content has to remain the same,
fitting it into half of the semester will lead to an
increased teaching pace. This will hamper the
learning process as the students will not get
enough time to grasp and absorb the alien con-
cepts taught to them. It will also lead to greater
stress. Many of the current UG1 students can al-
ready be heard complaining about the extremely
hectic schedule consisting of 4 lectures and 3 lab
sessions a week.
The genuiness of this concern can be un-
derstood by the fact that even those students
who used to complain about the workload of this
subject or those who have got a poor grade in the
subject, are against the changed course structure,
because they have realized that it was only due to
the efficient course structure that they have
learnt much more than their peers in some other
colleges. This course had brought the first-time
coders and the pre-prepared school coders at par
with each other.
Amidst these opposing views, there are
some who are in favor of the new curriculum.
They argue that Computer Programming is not a
concept-based course. It is more of a C pro-
gramming course something which can be
taught within a month. Merely programming for
4-5 months in a semester is not going to help
learners hone their programming skills for life.
What really matters is practice. It must be a con-
tinuous learning process. Making CP a half-
semester course will not make much of a differ-
ence and hence is a good decision.


Agony Aunt


Q : My inbox is spammed by people trying to
revolutionize our bathing or eating styles. I have
limited space and so I need to look out for these
mails and delete them often.
A : This is a job for the student sysadmin team.
Either they should be given more powers or
should become stricter! Ask the server room peo-
ple to increase your mail storage.
>>
Q : There is no clock in CR 1 and SH1. This makes
it very inconvenient to know how long the class
will last.
A : We all would love to know that. Guess that the
Professors thought the students were distracted
by it! Wear a wrist watch.

Q : There are so many dogs in the campus who
hunt in packs at night. It feels unsafe to roam
around that time.
A : The dogs are just ensuring that you sleep at an
appropriate time!! A lengthy discussion regarding
this took place on the mailing lists but we are un-
aware of any action being taken.

Q : The institute roads are very dark at night and
need more street lights.
A : This is a serious problem. Hope the concerned
authorities are reading and take some quick
action. You may contact the Campus Life students
members.

Q : My entire floor in OBH does not have a single
hot water geyser while all the other floors have at
least 2.
A : The hostel administration is busy with other
responsibilities and has said that it will look into
this matter soon enough.
Change in Syllabus of Computer Programming
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In the IIIT records, Venkatesh Velugubantla's
name figures in the graduate list of 2005. Cur-
rently a Senior Software Development Engineer at
AMD, Venkatesh is also involved with the Art of
Living. He is a teacher of the YES!+ course which
essentially deals with youngsters. Taking time out
from his busy schedule, he accepted our invitation
to chat, and was right on time for the interview!
Here's an account of what transpired between us:
Jai Gurudev!!...

Q. Which is the most memorable incident of your
college life?
A. One of the most memorable moments in col-
lege was when I was selling black tickets at some
theatre at Lingampally during my ragging. It was
such fun with my senior IIITians!!
Q. What do you miss the most about IIIT?
A. LAN gaming at IIIT especially Age of Empires.
Q. What is it that you dont miss at all?
A. *ponders* Tough one. I can't think of anything
of that sort. I loved IIIT completely when I was
there and then moved on. :)
Q. From your experiences here, what advice
would u like to give the current students?
A. Enjoy completely and explore every possible
opportunity to excel in your life so that you won't
regret anything later.
Q. What difference do you find in your life before
IIIT, during and after IIIT?
A. My age :) *smart answer* On a more serious
note, I used to be too serious about my achieve-
ments in terms of studies before IIIT and during
IIIT, its about games and friends but after IIIT, its
more about balance. This is one major change I
noticed.
Q. You are basically a software engineer What
drew you towards art of living?
A. Excitement to try out a new thing in life. I was
having a lot of fun, and I wanted to check out if
AOL could teach me how to have even more fun
while I am excelling at what I want to do.
Q. Since when have you been involved with it
A. Approximately 3 years.
Q. Did you benefit from it? Tell us about your ex-
perience
A. Of course! If I look back now, there are so
many aspects in which I have seen growth in my-
self, I am calmer than before and this is helping
me in taking intelligent decisions in life, rather
than in haste. I am very regular with my practices
and I realize that it has helped me in giving my
best in whatever I do in my life, be it reading, talk-
ing, working or anything else.
Q. Who is your inspiration?
A. H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Q. He is a world renowned personality, how does
it feel to be closely associated with him?
A. It feels great and it gives a sense of pride :)
Q. You are involved with YES!+, tell us more about
it. Why should youngsters opt for it?
A. Youth Empowerment and Skills Workshop =
YES!+ and as the name itself says it's for young-
sters :) Youth has a lot of potential either to
transform themselves and/or to transform the
society and this course is one that empowers
youth physically, mentally and spiritually. After
doing a YES!+ course, a person would observe
that he/she could handle situations better. This
leads to better management of one's time, ef-
forts, relationships with parents and friends and
much more.. In short, a youngster becomes more
productive for himself and for others. Who
doesn't want to be one of that sort?
Q. Speaking of the youth, what changes would
you like to see in them? Also, what according to
you is the positive aspect about them?
A. I would like to see happier and confident
youth. I believe that enthusiasm is the sign of
youth; the energy and enthusiasm that youth has
is simply amazing.
Q. Tell us more about your job as a software engi-
neer. What drew you towards this field?
A. My family situations demanded it. I enjoy it,
though. Currently, playing games is a part of my
job and that is a bonus!
Q. Whom do you identify with more? Venkatesh,
the software engineer, or Venkatesh, the teacher
of the Art of Living?
A. Software Engineer when I am at work and
Teacher when I am teaching.
Q. How do you cope with work pressure, family
responsibilities, and devote time to art of living at
the same time?
A. By balancing...and that is what I learn/teach at
YES!+ courses. Being available at the right time
and attending to all the aspects of life with the
same enthusiasm and love.
Q. What do you do in your free time to let off
steam?
A. Sudarshan Kriya, I free my time to practice it
and don't wait for free time to do it!
Q. What's your message to the youth in general?
A. Be happy and make people happy :)
Q. Would you like to conduct a seminar for the
benefit of the students of IIIT sometime?
A. Definitely.
Alumni Interview
Venkatesh Velugubantla
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Pen Stand
Human Values
As a part of our human values assignment,
we were asked to clean one of our friends room
in the presence of a housekeeping staff member,
who was to guide the exercise. The objective of
the task was to learn to empathize with the
housekeeping staff, but the exercise offered a lot
more. I learnt a great deal and would like to share
my experiences with everyone.
As per the task, I requested my friend to let
me clean his room and he readily agreed (who
wouldnt!). I asked him to call me during the lunch
break or at a time when I am idle. This was be-
cause I had observed that people call the house-
keeper as and when they
like and never keep in
mind his requirements.
The following day,
I was resting in my room
after being exhausted by
the C assignment (you all
must know, how difficult
it is for beginners), when
my friend asked me to
clean his room. I had al-
ready spoken with the
housekeeper to guide me in this task and he
obliged to do so. He handed me a broom and we
headed for my friend's room. As soon as I opened
the rooms door, the first thought that came to
my mind was -This is going to be a Herculean
task. The scene I witnessed was one of papers,
wrappers and shoe mud all over the place. More-
over the room was stinking badly. Though the
stink was quite expected from his room, the litter-
ing was not. He later revealed that all this was
part of a plan to annoy me (after all friends will be
friends). To add to it, he called other friends also
to his room. Nevertheless I entered, and as in-
structed by the housekeeper, I started from one
corner of the room. While cleaning, I overlooked a
stinking pair of shoes covered in mud and the
housekeeper pointed out that I am supposed to
lift them, dust them and sweep the mud beneath
it. I refused immediately and instead, asked my
friend to lift them up and he complied. But then I
realized that this is the same scenario which takes
place in my room whenever the housekeeper
cleans it and he has no friend to assist him in his
work. So with the first lesson learnt, I began to
understand the aim of the task. With this in my
mind, I resumed the cleaning. As I was sweeping
the floor, my friends kept moving in and out of
the room, without even caring and thus making
my work even more tedious. I somehow kept my
calm and continued. During the task, many
thoughts kept coming to my mind, like when
sweeping near the bed, my friend, who was sitting


on the bed merely lifted his leg to allow me sweep
beneath and that is when I realized how the
housekeeping staff goes through all this without
any complaints. Experiencing the difficulties faced
by housekeeping staff myself, I started to respect
them even more. With the room swept com-
pletely, the housekeeper asked me to pick up pa-
pers, wrappers etc. with my hand and collect all
the dust and mud and throw it into the dustbin. I
reluctantly did as he said which made me realize
their commitment towards their work. He then
gave me a wiper to wipe the floor. This was more
or less the same experience as sweeping except
that this time I was a bit more composed.
After cleaning the room, I went to the
cleaner and asked him to share his experiences
while cleaning rooms, toilets and bathrooms. I
wanted to know how
people treated him and
if ever he feels that this
job is not meant for him.
Initially, he was a bit
hesitant to speak which I
guess could be because
of the respect he has for
us and putting forth his
experiences in front of
me, would in a way
mean complaining about
me and my friends. On being assured that he talk
freely he opened up and said - Aisa tho kuch nahi
hai bhaiya, sab acche se hi baat karte hain. Haan
bus kabhie-kabhie jab koi galat time par bula leta
hai to bura lagta hai. Wo kehte hain ki 'bhaiya
jaldi karo khana khane jana hai' aur kabhie yeh
nahi sochte ki mujhe bhi to yahi time milta hai
khane ke liye. Hearing this I consoled him and
said that I had seen this happening many times
myself and I really feel bad about it. As he was
sharing his feelings, I felt a sense of empathy as I
could relate it to my own experiences of cleaning
my friend's room earlier.
An addition to his grievances was cleaning
the toilets to which he remarked Ab kya kare
bhaiya kuch to kaam karna padega warna pet
(stomach) kaise bharoonga. This reply truly
shocked me. This reply made me realize the help-
lessness of these people and the wrong norms
that society has created for them.
To conclude, this assignment was an eye
opener. I gained a lot from this. I learnt to respect
every individual, to refrain from work-based dis-
crimination , to treat everyone alike and last but
not the least I got to learn how to sweep my
room. Believe it or not, after this incident I never
ask the housekeeping staff to clean my room;
rather I do it myself.

Wadhwa Shashank Lekhraj
UG1
..I wanted to know how people treated
him and if ever he feels that this job is not
meant for him. Initially, he was a bit hesitant
to speak..
As he was sharing his feelings, I felt a
sense of empathy as I could relate it to my
own experiences of cleaning my friend's room
earlier...
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