The Spectator

by Vikram Phukan


Sure ,we don't fit into the technical institute stereotype of loony dustbin brains who sample out only occasionly from the sheer academics of formulae and stress ratios. No that is not us! We are quantised energy packets, imps who jump and live all year long, eternally wayward, children of a new mass culture .Yes , the written word matters, technical manuals exist and we do pore through them, we do strain our eyes glued as they are monochrome VDUs and yep ,so many of them lectures are attended ,and so many professors have seen us through the curriculum.

DCE has a large male population and a proportionate miniscule female lot. With such an equation so disproportionately balanced , passions are bound to run dry and all we have to show for it is a whole lot of repressed libidoes. As the maxim goes, No sex please , we are DCEites. Sure we, not often , but whenever we get the chance we do it and it even has earned us a reputation for being DESPERATE! Although that's just blown up propaganda.

Avid movie goers exist in our ranks .Priya,Chanakya -our esteemed movie halls, catering to a whole new yuppie brigade are our second home, freak-out hang-ins that never cease to lose any of that glitter. Knowing as we do , All that glitters is not gold .Our own old ramshackle campus with monkeys inhabiting it all over, can somtimes be paradise. Especially in the cricket season! Then cricket is everywhere, round the bend , down the corridors, in the tennis-courts , in basketball courts in the football field. Then we are the Sports College.

We booze , smoke a lot , play politics on the campus, on an average ,we use STAFF in local buses, on an average get refused at the face. We scramble for tiffin boxes like kids(like we used to in school) and play word games during lectures. In the hostels , we are busy men many functions more , arrangements galore and posts to hold, responsibilities to taken care of ... mess commitees to be set up and a cooperative mess run efficiently. Guess it sometimes all boils down to power structures and tug-of-wars. Well, all's fair in love and war and this is called DCE! Ya we love it.....