dekho dekho bandar ka tamasha .......

i just understood why in my childhood people liked watching the bandar ka tamasha .. when i'll turn old, i'll be bragging my grandchildren that the golden days were those when hawkers roamed the streets and damru ke saath bolta tha banda .... "dekho dekho bandar ka tamasha .... "

i now appreciate why people liked it. society likes drama, in any sense.. a small brawl results in lots of people lining up to satisfy their curiosities and having some drama in their 'lifeless' life.....

oh what am i writing about ?? this post is intended to brief about the bandar ka tamasha going on at PEC these days .. some freaking committee (NBA), called by request of PEC people only are meant to be giving PEC some marks and accreditation for 3 or 5 years ... thats great news for the college, since it has never got such accreditation.

but the bandar ka tamasha is that how the college changes in such a short span of time. with jamadars waking up in the wee hours (that should be read as 9 o clock) to clean the hell out of PEC, painters painting the newly made roads of the college, tent wala's putting up flags just about by 11 o clock, PEC seemed to hustle and bustle today, not because of students but because of people cleaning it all up..
anyways, things get even by 11 o clock. topped by the instruction of teachers for students to stay in class (though there is nothing to do in it),PEC looks chic, cool and peppy ...

Starting with seeing the college's facilities, hostels etc, everything is done to impress these bunch of no-good people to give some marks for our college .... anyways, everything .. AND I MEAN EVERYTHING (now dont think too much) must have been tried to impress the guys .. from making new chairs for Computer centre, making the lab's look really cool (as if someone works in them) i even think the dressing sense of girls was changed in our college, just for today (lol). the tamasha carries on and teachers are busy inserting goody goody things into NBA's ears till 5 o clock .. while the poor children (including me) are sitting, wasting their all important time sitting in the class, doing nothing....

now comes the time for the CLIMAX. at 5, people are being inserted into the auditorium to make it fill up to capacity. even some worker was seen spraying room freshener near the place they were supposed to sit to make the committee happy. come 6 o clock and the NAB comes into the auditorium. around 100 students were deliberately installed to sit and show their presence. while at the back of my mind, i was confident that random people should not have been called. Instead only the 'flagbearers' or the important guys of PEC should be intimated. However, they decided to pack the auditorium.

these NAB people turn out to be intelligent after all, trying to coax the public by telling that they will try telling the departments and administration about the shortcoming .and yes, they take care to not let any college teacher or faculty be nearby and also prevent any photograph/video been made .. a simple, easy trap.. which 100 people sitting in the audi fall into, simply. all they ask is to tell wrongthings of PEC. and sadly, we tell them ..

well, i started telling the shortcomings about PEC, in a diplomatic way, explaining that PEC has small size (in respect of land) and budget to get best facilities. things move on and the discussion becomes more candid. and more .... From lack of wifi speed, hostel problems, lack of infrastructure, to being scared of teachers everything .... imagine the end ... no ??

someone stands up and tells the guys (who would be rating the college) that why does so much changed only when you have come ?? why not everytime ?? (it ends with "please NAB should come every month". clapping and applause) haha .. everyone gets the point .. bandar ka tamasha hai .. aaj vo judge hai. jab unke college mai hoga, vo hi is tamashe ka integral hissa hoge ...