Not an iitian.....

there are things that i don't understand... there are things i understand but i can't.. i just can't realize... there are things i think i understand but deep inside it feels that whateva it is... its still aint that clear... n then finally there are a few things that i know and i understand but i don't want to believe in.... 

n one such thing is the one called the "tag"... yup you guessed it right.. the tag of an "iitian"

they consider it to be a very big thing to be an iitian... n its there every where....

the concept is there in iit, in iitians, in the people outside, in my own parents, in i guess the whole of the country n may be to a certain extend in me too... but the BIG question is why is it like that??.. why has the world gone this crazy about iitians??... what is it that has set all the science students (except the bio guys) to go this damn mad to get themselves beeping inside the radar of iit??

N its not that i dont know what you will say... you will say "oh well, thats so easy... iit is one of the best colleges of india... ounce you go in, your life is pretty much set on a highway.. you will end up with a good job with a nice package... n besides, Do you even know how many people try to get in iit??... there are more than 5 lakh people who try to get in iit... if you are getting in then obviously you are one of the bright kids who happen to be the 'chosen ones' "

So yeah its kinda obvious what you will say and cutting out the worthless crap lets come down to the points... the 1st point is this that the prospect is good.... n the 2nd point is that its hard to get....

Now personally speaking i really dont think i have the sort of stand of going against these points coz i was just like you all ounce n before i could even understand or even question the basic idea of what is this thing called ''understanding'' they taught me its big to be an iitian.... n since i myself is a student of iit its not going to put much of an impact to say it in 1st person.... so here is an example... or may be you can consider it a story... n the moral of the story... well, thats on you.. whichever way you might like to take it....

"Sachin Tendulkar".... yup, he is an awesome batsman... when he plays the whole country watches but tell me something... 

is he BIG just coz you and another 1 billion people is looking at him??... 

is he BIG coz there are many people who also want to be like him (needless to say that people want to become iitians these days not cricketers or artists or physicists or anything) 

is he BIG coz he is earning a lot and even if he retires he can live his entire life on a bed of roses??.... 

when you watch him play do you ask yourself in which cricket coaching centre he has learned to play or has ''passed out'' from??... 

Say now i rip him off the blue shirt of Indian cricket team... say i delete all his statistics and records.... say i change his name from Sachin to something else... anything like say, "Dhirendra!!"....

and i make him play in his own backyard...
Do you think the quality of his cover drive will change??... 

Well, i still find it difficult to believe in the fact that the so called "practical" world is like the way it is... whatever it is.. but personally speaking it was just a year of studies that got me in iit and i dont think i deserve to live my entire life signing autographs for dumb people just coz of that.... if the world has to know me someday.... 

I want them to know my name.