university elections??...our take...

So this one of those we-are-really-concerned-about-an-issue type of article. Probably something which has been criticized for years and years , but no ones ever bothered to do anything about it. So what exactly is our point??

As we write this article together , we realize how both of us are seemingly troubled about the same things that we have observed in college and among our friends. ‘Callousness’… ‘the-devil-may-care’ attitude that almost everyone around us is unconsciously but more often consciously is in possession of. People come flood our college with paper (this is a reference to election campaigning , by the way)… all we get is a casual remark here and there , ‘Dude, they have dirtied the whole place’ , ‘ What is this… like a paper avalanche?’ , but no one goes and actually picks up one of those “Abhimanyu Singh, Ballot no. 2” and throws it into the bin. Not even some of our closest friends. “Chalta hai yaar…”

We are educated Indians in the premiere institute and university of the country , for Gods’ sake! The least we can do is shoulder a minor social responsibility of trying to keep ‘our country’ , or if that’s too big and intimidating a word, ‘our college’ clean. We go on endlessly how the system is all wrong in this country but maybe by some conscious effort on our part we can change the way things work. “Singapore is spotless, one can roll down the street in a white shirt” . Guess what? India is NOT because people like you and me could not care less.

We know… we know… this is so turning into a lecture and a typical we-will-bore-you-to-death-with-our-uncool-perspective kind of an article but we really do intend to make a point here. However, stereo-typical it may sound, but just the two of us screaming our lungs out CAN make a difference. So, next time you see two tall girls picking rubbish around college, DON’T LAUGH , just think about what we are saying and perhaps next time you carelessly throw the empty packet of chips you just finished eating you can make the effort of bending down, picking it up and throwing it in a bin near you .(and for gods sake, don’t say ‘there is no bin right there’ cause its only a short walk to the nearest one)