Acts of Disgrace and Scholars' Avenue

Review: Last issue of The Scholar's Avenue

Instructions before reading the issue:
=>If you're a Nehruite, this issue isn't meant for you...
(You already have something to celebrate, we are focussing on what we have.)
Anyways, the publication believes that PAN Loop is not a part of the institute system.
=>You must have enough imagination to believe the way we present the story.

Lessons for wannabe editors:
=>Treat a paper as a personal property. Use it to your personal benefit as much as you can, without thinking for even a moment what effect it will have on the community.
=>Rumours and status messages are the best source of information.
=>When you are biased, be so biased that none have any doubts in their minds.
=>Guest columns are Weapons of Mass Destruction! You wont be held responsible also!


Now, i'd like to get a bit serious, though i know that this paper is not at all serious. I dont know how much truth it contains, but i heard that the publishers themselves go to gymkhana authorities explaining what they have written.. and they get the reply that the authorities are yet to receive a complain! I also wished to convey how 'heard' informations should go to public.

The paper has really reliable sources- the ones who use it for full page interviews and taking the credits for anything that happens here. These sources must have constant updates of the DC meeting. The DC committee was never to hand over hell to Nehru Hall, as reported. If you could hear that focus shifted from individuals to hall, hey man! you shouldn't have shut your receivers to note that nothing fatal was supposed to come out. To all the poltubaaz junta, i 'd just like to say one thing- by working for all the foul plays, you just end up worsening the already pathetic culture at this place. I dont know what pride these people find in troubling others and then taking the credits for this. This just reminds me of the ideology behind the Ladens!

Between Heaven and Hell

Coming back to 'Nehru Hall Near Hell', i bet some of the halls had much more embarassing days than Nehru these days. And that these days were embarassing for Nehru residents, we came to know through this article only. Believe me, we were having an absolute party-time with our alumni down to hall wings. There, too, you created 'STORIES of emotionally charged people shaking their heads (as also other body parts).....'. What a story! What a selection of words! What respect for alumni! It really becomes difficult for people to differentiate where fiction takes charge amidst facts! Anyways, no fault of yours! That just spices up the matter. Leave all the matters aside, who gives you the rights to report on what's going inside a hall?

Acts of Disgrace

The publication believes that its their moral duty to report the disgrace Nehru has brought to the campus and the campus culture by their act when they 're publishing that the hall won all three GCs. Good to be a moral watchdog! Boss, you turn a blind eye to much more disgraceful and coward acts. Again, no fault of yours! But, i 'd like to point out some of them.

JAM and Antakshari got cancelled this year. Everyone knows why. The opponents believed the GC chapter will be closed with the Western Groups event. All the foul plays that ran in the background are doing greater damage to this place than the 'DEGRADING' apology that Nehru guys put up in front of RP folks.


Further, the SOP Boxes got cancelled. Few people know why. One of the parties in the election was afraid that weaknesses of their candidate will be exposed. All the lies, foul plays came to their rescue and it was a well-managed affair. Trust my words, this has done an irrepairable damage to the electoral system at kgp. I 've few more cases of people bringing disgrace to the campus life with their rampant misuse of power, but, each one comes with controversies of its own.

Columns which required editing

Another big story- this hall manages to manipulate the results in Western Groups without a g sec and the secy. The guest column declares that the hall which didn't deserve to be in the top three, finished with a gold. I can understand that judging is quite atrocious in this place but why people cry only when they 're not on the winning side. And this publication deserves all the credits for beautifully using the guest articles at the right moment. The paper doesnt listen to it when a team is asked to put up the performance at national level, when the performance is exceptional. They dont listen to it when the scoresheets in dramatics leave a distant second. It only finds unexpected golds! It only finds people who were disqualified. It prefers making personal comments in successive issues on the person concerned. Not your fault, again!

I know that you have matured seeing the culture of bias around you and it needs character to defy that and work for a constructive environment. We are in a place everyone uses power to serve personal motives and cries foul when not in power. It really needs sound character to use it for the benefit of the concerned community and not misuse it for expressing personal opinions. All that i can i say is- all the best, kgp!


The fierce criticism is meant for realizations and not hurting anyone's sentiments. To all those who couldn't avoid getting hurt, i'm sorry with the bundle of hurt sentiments on my side. I could have done with a plain criticism. But, in this place, it doesnt make any impact.

With last few days of stay left in kgp, i bear more affiliation to the institute than the hall. I only wish to see a sense of responsibilty in all future publications, towards creating a better campus and campus environment.