Another day has started with another beginning! A day to new challenges, new hopes and new plans! A phone from the Girls' Hostel started my day--it informed me of a boy trying to talk on his cell phone to a girl inside the hostel. I am really fed up of this young generation, more means of communication they have, more demanding they have become. I wonder why adherence to the rules is not abided by these young persons? What do they get by breaking the rules? They know it well that it is not permissible for them to meet or stand outside the gate of the Girls' hostel after a point of time, but why don't they adhere to the rules set up for maintaining law and order on the campus? This reminds me of a couple of similar incidents that took place last year as well. Once on my late evening walks i found a girl and a boy talking to each other, both sitting on the opposite sides of the iron gate which was locked. What I found offending was that both were sitting on the ground, facing each other. Loosing my cool, I literally shouted at both of them and asked them to meet me in my office the next day. It was first time that I practically saw the Knight in question running to save the damsel in distress--as the boy wanted to own all responsibility for having asked the girl to come over to the gate and sit talking to him I tols him point blank that the girl knew about the rules she was supposed to follow and breaking them was solely her responsibility. As both of them had pased out from the college and there was literally nothing much that I could do, I let it go as it had served as a warning to the other inmates of the hostel
The other incident also happened around the same time. I got a call from the resident warden that a group of students had been singing songs ousside the hoslel and all phone calls to the Chief warden and the security personnel at the gate had elicited no reply. Exacperated, she had finally calle me. I went to the open space outside my home and could hear the songs. I wondered what the proctor and the vchief warden who both stayed very close to the hostel were doing? I was angry eith this indiffernce shown by them and decidedto walk to the hostel It was 2A.M. in the night and the road was lonely and dark but with the sound of songs guiding my way, I reached the spot. Lo and behold--what I saw was a group of abou 12-13c tudents with water bottles and guitars were sitting on the road and singing loudly. They were so shocked to find me standing there in front ofthem that they were numb for some time. I scolded them the eay I would never scold any one as i was so angry with them. They just wanted to run away. Within 5v minutes of my arrival, the security personnel also appeared and starting behaving in an officious manner but I took over from him as neither iwanted the students to pay heavily for this nor to let them go scot free. Asking them to come to my room with a written apology, I made them realise how wrong it was on thir part. But this year, once again, the farewell time is round the corner and new faces emerge on thescene. For us it is always another day and a new beginning.