Staring at the Ceiling Fan

NOTE: For people reading this, none of the content is true and if at all anything is true, its only by pure accident.

A whole post on the riot???? Well, let me try. As I didn’t want this post to be caught on g**gle search, I’ll call the college in question as SMEC. To start, we will make a couple of assumptions. First one of which is it wasn’t the students who did all the damage and it involved some goondas from around the campus. Next is that Mr. Green pearl (translate in tamil for more clarity), the head of SM group of institutions had arranged the left over goondas for protection of his property. So in short you can call it “War of The Goondas”.

We’ll move to the event. It started in the wee hours on the morning of 28^th February. The beautiful campus was silent as usual, except for the couple of horses on campus and a few dogs outside it. (what they were up to, I’ll leave it to your imagination.) As most riots begin with a bang, this too had its own tinge of surprise. The planning began the evening before. It all started because the principal had apparently told the students that their degree was not accepted by A**TE and so it wasn’t a technical degree anymore and it was equilent to a B Sc. Degree.

The acceptably agitated crowd, were fuming with anger and frustration and to add to their misery were few goondas who kept pushing them to fight against the injustice done. “Hot blood” as it is called in movies often, they couldn’t keep their cool and hell broke out. These people started damaging all that they could get hold of, computers, tables, glass windows, you name it, was damaged.

Then came the villainous act. Green pearl got goondas to fight for his side and there began a battle, which I think the students involved understood by then, was a big mistake to start of with. The goondas on the student’s side (apparently) took full advantage of this and they started stealing all that they could get hold of. The Intel technology which was supposed to power minds on SMEC campus now powers homes around the college.This is probably what they call communist thinking “From the rich, to the poor”.

In the end, SMEC lake, a small pond on which green pearl had plans to introduce boating, had a few other things floating on it. Its worth??? Just three crores. The whole of Katankalathur, including the horses and the dogs, have come to a complete halt. Few of the students were remanded to custody and now the headlines read “Engineering students in Chennai on rampage”.

Mob mentality spreads faster than virus as everyone knows. A day later it was another of Chennai’s richest campuses (one of the worst built ones though) which saw a similar fate. All I can say is, the student’s call is justified as all they want is their degree which they FULLY deserve.Just as the title goes:
“For they seek peace, they prepare for War”