The 4th Idiot

Imagine this situation. Chatur Ramalingam has a little more brains and decides to get his speech proof – read by someone before he delivers. Wins the heart of Virus on Teacher’s Day. Virus praises him in front of Pia, who finds him cute (like most of us actually did!). In the mean time, Rancho, the stud gets himself into trouble with the Insti once again and gets expelled dragging his friends along with him. And this time the now famous Eureka Forbes product too does not come to his assistance. Mona delivers a baby in a hospital (whose business might have doubled after people saw that you could actually drive into the hospital on a scooty!). Pia marries Chatur and they live happily ever after (and yes Chatur takes Virus’s pen as dowry!)

Seems all wrong. Right? Well actually, wrong. This is what actually happens. The ‘ratta maar’ chooran guys get to take the chicks and the studs are left wielding their sticks! (I hope this line won’t be censored J).

I can say this with the ‘been there, done that’ attitude. Now I hope that the Chaturs of the world won’t have the time to read my words, so I can easily represent the others. So what do you think people, differentiates you from those other side of the line guys. The good boys, who do not have anything to worry, except which firm to actually join out of the 5 offers in hand? Not the intellect pals, but the ability to mug and mug till you fill your jug.

Our education system won’t allow otherwise. Mr. Wangdu perhaps lives in Neverland and not India. Here, our esteemed academicians won’t allow you to develop curiosity. In fact, on the contrary, they will kill it by providing you so much information that you will forget what you were curious about in the first place.

Have you ever found yourself asking the question “Why am I studying this? What’s the use of it?” Congratulations friends, you have accidentally stumbled over the “stud syndrome”. This is the syndrome which caught our 3 idiots, changed their lives et al. So next time, when you find yourself asking questions regarding the ‘use of things’ that are supposedly important, you have joined the ‘idiot’ community.

So what do you do, if you are an engineer and do not like engineering? Leave engineering and pursue your interests; that would be your answer. But the real problem arises when you are not a student of ICE but some 3^rd grade college where the best deal you can get is a job offer from one of the many IT Firms in Bangalore. The actual answer is that you stick to your job offer, try and fall in love with engineering and develop an interest in programming.

Moral of the story: Guys, get back to your notes (which are exact replicas of your books), solve the specimen questions (as the teacher himself doesn’t know more than that) and get an introductory priced sachet of Bengali Baba Ka Chooran. Coz in real life, saying “Aal Izz Well” won’t help you.