Pagalguy.com recently had this as the main story on its home page - a video showing IIMC girls mouthing choicest of expletives during the IIMC-XLRI sports meet followed by long paragraphs on why this is unacceptable, how this classifies as the lowest level college culture could ever stoop, and that the IIMC girls (being girls and students of IIMC) should have refrained from this henious act.
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PG's arguments in favour of this article have been hollow and, as accpeted by the editorial board later on, misplaced. For, boys swear in almost all grad/postgrad colleges, PG has never cared to cover even one. But girls' swearing is a totally different ball-game for PG, it seems. Also, these girls being from IIMC, does it take away the license to do what is acceptable in other colleges?
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Notwithstanding PG's poort attempts at the positioning of this article and arguments provided thereon, it does indeed raise one valid question - Should explicit attempts be made to imbibe swearing as a part of college culture, as the article hinted at?
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Almost all inter-college sports festivals have their fair share of abusing, but indeed in the name of traditions, it seems to be formalized in IIMC campus - it appears abusing acts are rehearsed before the actual performance.
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No, IIMC is not an exception. IIMA has a top-5 tradition. IIMB has something similar, where the freshers, holding a broom you-know-where and a mug of water tugged just above the fly, recite in ample details their fantasies (often involving females from their batch) during the block parties. Many find it totally amusing, some others disgusting.
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The purpose of this post is not to criticize the IIM cultures, good and bad go along. But still, one should always try and weed out the bad stuff, be it the alleged institutionalized abusing culture of IIMC or utter disrespect for the opposite sex in IIMA/B in the name of tradition.
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The wheels are in motion. Seniors in some blocks opposed this tradition this year around in IIMB and managed to get it scrapped/reduced the vulgarity levels during their block parties. With time, hopefully, it would soon be a thing of past.
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Addeddum: The IIMC sports squad reached IIMB campus today (Aug 8), for the annual IIMB-IIMC sports meet, Samhar. To welcome the guests, the IIMB campus is all pasted with posters "Beware: This campus is under surveliance" . :)
1 comment:
Well-written. Its not about blaming, its about universally changing things which we feel we need to change. The onus is on each of the students of the institute concerned
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