Beneath the Pookie 🎀 director PR campaign, there lies divisive poltics (over food), crores of corruption ( director getting paid 1.6 crore from Trident pvt ltd within his directorship tenure), nepotism (unlawful recruitment in physics department), abusive environment (iykyk) and repressive admin.
Even after having a fully running veg mess, now the uparwale want to divide the space within the normal mess too. They allotted four rows exclusively for vegetarians in the normal mess. Autocratic governance is sustainable only in a fractured community culture.
Dining space is where we come together for dinner... where joy, laughter, sorrow and togetherness are shared over a single table and a common space. What's on the plate never matters for friends; what matters is the community experience of living on a campus.
Most old IITs have this hall culture built on the social and collective ethos. But the people in power always envy this. They keep looking for a gap to create divisions within the community.
But they forget one thing: power will change, people will remain...