I had joined D Skul with lots of expectations. One of those was to have great faculty adding immense value to my knowledge base. This dream was shattered in the very first Sem. Thus as i made my way to a T&D class in Sem 3, I had packed myself with all the reading material reqd to survive a mundane 1 hr 50 mins. The reputation of the faculty didn't help much.He was know to describe a single slide for 40 odd mins.
As i made my way to class, 30 mins late as usual, i was informed in JP that Varun has obliged us with his presence today ( assured fun). i walked in and took my place next to him. Paying no heeds to what was being taught, i resumed reading "stay hungry stay foolish." I could hear now and then words like "interpersonal skills" and "role play" being thrown here and there, but i was very sure that they would be out of context and hence didn't bother myself much with it.
Luckily or unluckily, i had the faculty exclaiming" if you dont have good interpersonal skills, you will fail.." and then i saw the bugger, Varun on my right raising his hand. I was sure he is now gona take the faculty's "case" but what happened next was something i could never have thought about.
Varun as usual challenged the notion citing examples of Dreamworks and GE. The faculty got flabbergasted and the rest of the class joined in. Sir went about trying to explain that HR is a social science and nothing is fixed in it. Its all related. He got super agitated and the entire class started having fun. The phrase" interpersonal skills" was thrown about as if it was some clothing material in a relief camp. Varun relentless in his pursuit, made Sir finally exclaim," bhawnao ko samjho, sabdo me na jao"
There came a time when Sir and Varun got introduced as boxers taking part in a bout :) The conversation then drifted to the present condition of the education system and organizational politics where each one tries to bring down another. and this is a point I thought that," this man is actually making some sense for a change!"
Then we had himanshu's input that every battle and fight is caused because of "jameen, jayadadh or jodu.." the conversation made rounds about Mahabharat and cases behind the epic war. How basic are facts in life which cause such trauma to people. When i know that something belongs to me, and all of a sudden is handed over to someone else, i would fight for it and thus was the case with Duryodhan and Hastinapur. Himanshu disagreed to it and believed Mahabharat was all because of Dropadi :p
We had Anirudh's recent trauma somewhere in the middle too and reiteration of the point that students from science background are more stubborn in nature.
The entire episode was later restated as a Sensitivity training by Sir ( what a joke !!!) Was it or was it not, is something which is debatable. atleast one thing is for sure is that i was entertained.
"yaar neend toh nahi aayi ekdum!!!"
Luckily or unluckily, i had the faculty exclaiming" if you dont have good interpersonal skills, you will fail.." and then i saw the bugger, Varun on my right raising his hand. I was sure he is now gona take the faculty's "case" but what happened next was something i could never have thought about.
Varun as usual challenged the notion citing examples of Dreamworks and GE. The faculty got flabbergasted and the rest of the class joined in. Sir went about trying to explain that HR is a social science and nothing is fixed in it. Its all related. He got super agitated and the entire class started having fun. The phrase" interpersonal skills" was thrown about as if it was some clothing material in a relief camp. Varun relentless in his pursuit, made Sir finally exclaim," bhawnao ko samjho, sabdo me na jao"
There came a time when Sir and Varun got introduced as boxers taking part in a bout :) The conversation then drifted to the present condition of the education system and organizational politics where each one tries to bring down another. and this is a point I thought that," this man is actually making some sense for a change!"
Then we had himanshu's input that every battle and fight is caused because of "jameen, jayadadh or jodu.." the conversation made rounds about Mahabharat and cases behind the epic war. How basic are facts in life which cause such trauma to people. When i know that something belongs to me, and all of a sudden is handed over to someone else, i would fight for it and thus was the case with Duryodhan and Hastinapur. Himanshu disagreed to it and believed Mahabharat was all because of Dropadi :p
We had Anirudh's recent trauma somewhere in the middle too and reiteration of the point that students from science background are more stubborn in nature.
The entire episode was later restated as a Sensitivity training by Sir ( what a joke !!!) Was it or was it not, is something which is debatable. atleast one thing is for sure is that i was entertained.
"yaar neend toh nahi aayi ekdum!!!"
Lolzzz!!! You can't imagine how hard I am laughing right now! How and why Himanshu and especially Anirudh decided to jump into the picture I have no clue whatsoever, but I am glad they decided to!! :D But you're very right buds,the faculty quality is difficult to digest, and more importantly- difficult to bear.
ReplyDeleteEveryone present played a part!!! Few got disgusted 2 (the metro man):p but it was one of those classes that i will never forget in my life :)
ReplyDeletehaan to sahebaan kadardaan meherbaan...paan-daan, peek-daan, kamino ka khandan....
ReplyDeleteThank you so much sir it is really pleasing that my antics in class were a source of amusement to you..this too was a social experiment...it was to test that how far i can stretch him before he throws me out of the class....to his credit he fought on...and agli class duur nahi hai..
well written man...aur mazaa karenge
in ur words "chawkow" man...!!!
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