Lost

LOST
I lost my Sony Cybershot Digital Camera (Silver white, 12 MP) in the OAT during the Shaastra Vol Bash. If found, please contact me in the below given number.

Arun Sudarsan : +919790876930

BIG TREAT ASSURED!

Tell me people - when you find a camera lying around somewhere on the roads, what will you do? Make it yours inconspicuously, or try to find out its owner? Barring a few exceptions, I believe most of us would want to return it to its owner. But is it because of the 'treat' that is assured to you? If an IP doesn't promise a treat, would you not give it back?

LOST

I lost my Sony Cybershot Digital Camera (Silver white, 12 MP) in the OAT during the Shaastra Vol Bash. If found, please contact me in the below given number.

Arun Sudarsan : +919790876930

I WILL BE INDEBTED TO YOU FOR LIFE!

Since coming to this institution back in August 2009, I must have seen at least one different 'Lost' IP everyday. Everyone unfailingly ending with the line - TREAT ASSURED or its derivatives like BIG TREAT ASSURED, HAZAAR TREAT ASSURED, BASERA TREAT etc. Only once did I see an IP that didn't offer a treat, but the line - I WILL BE INDEBTED TO YOU FOR LIFE!

Are we BRIBING THE CIVIC SENSE of the students? To return a lost item to its owner is to be seen as a duty on our part. Then why the assurances of 'putting' treat? (Insti Lingo). This tendency to 'put' treat doesn't confine itself to the 'Lost' IPs. From Lit-Soc to Tech-Soc, Shaastra to Saarang and everything and anything that happens in the institute comes under this cancerous disease. The most disgusting of all being that this disease has even affected the NSS or the National Service Scheme. Putting treat for doing social service! Remember, the treats given to the people concerned is funded from the budget meant for NSS work and shown under a different head.

This culture of the students, who expect rewards and accolades for everything that they do is ruining their moral fibre. They learn to manipulate accounts to fund the treats, be it the Hostel funds, Shaastra, Saarang or NSS. Corruption therefore starts at this level. And to think that many of these people who misappropriate funds would later become CEOs of big companies (always keep Satyam in mind) and IAS officers and Politicians and 'Public servants'!

LET US NOT ALLOW OUR CIVIC SENSE TO BE BRIBED. LET US NOT TREAD THAT DANGEROUS PATH.