My classmates are planning on organising a New Year Party in keeping with Law School traditions. Rs. 1, 300/- have been collected per head to organise this grand event. I did not pay and have no intentions whatsoever of paying for this. The detailed budget was forwarded to the Class group today and one among the heads of expenditure was 'bribes' connoting probably the money to be paid to cops for disregarding rules with respect to partying late at night.
Earlier this month, in an exercise that was initiated by me, someone who abused a privilege and blatantly so was re-called to a team that is meant to safeguard interests of a larger group (as a whole and not merely, individuals). Both these incidents have left an indelible impression on my mind. What could be a better forum than my own blog to vent these emotions.
If by chance one among my classmates were to read this post, perhaps the first criticism of the same would be based on the 'freedom of choice' implying that everyone is free to choose his/her course of action. Fully aware of the probability (howsoever low) of such a reaction, I thought I would state that it is the same 'freedom of choice' argument that justifies my comments- few choose to keep quite and others choose to make a fuss albeit discreetly and I chose to be a part of the latter group.
Having delineated the justification (for lack of a better word) for this post, I have expressed my opinion about the two incidents rather, chain of events described in the first two paragraphs of this post; in the following points:
Earlier this month, in an exercise that was initiated by me, someone who abused a privilege and blatantly so was re-called to a team that is meant to safeguard interests of a larger group (as a whole and not merely, individuals). Both these incidents have left an indelible impression on my mind. What could be a better forum than my own blog to vent these emotions.
If by chance one among my classmates were to read this post, perhaps the first criticism of the same would be based on the 'freedom of choice' implying that everyone is free to choose his/her course of action. Fully aware of the probability (howsoever low) of such a reaction, I thought I would state that it is the same 'freedom of choice' argument that justifies my comments- few choose to keep quite and others choose to make a fuss albeit discreetly and I chose to be a part of the latter group.
Having delineated the justification (for lack of a better word) for this post, I have expressed my opinion about the two incidents rather, chain of events described in the first two paragraphs of this post; in the following points:
- On occasions wherein socially relevant issues are discussed in class almost everyone has something or the other to say. Going by the tenor of these comments one would expect some commitment to being part of the solution to such social problems. However, going by the careful inclusion of bribes as a head of expenditure I must say all those arguments were just made out of inner compulsions to exhibit one's sense of logic or to reveal the lack of it, in other's arguments.
- There are certain people who seem to be very interested in history- sacrifices made by young people for liberation of what we call India today, the emotions that drove such honourable men to make those sacrifices. These people never lost an opportunity in class to painfully outline their conception of and respect for such heroic deeds. These attempts, in light of their contribution to what culminated in relation to both the re-calling of that person and the party seem to have been made out of a desire to impress others with the insight. These historical events, their love for these events all this seems to be just another interest to these people.
- There are certain other people who swear by propriety and other such words when speaking in public. But in private they don't want to fall in the bad-books of anyone even at the risk of endorsing someone who did something wrong.
The long and short of what I intend to express is, apathy is deep-rooted among my classmates. The very same bunch could not donate money to a corpus for flood victims, they never thought of contributing to a corpus such as National Defence Fund; but when it comes to enjoyment, money is no more a problem. And beware, all of them are or at least would want to be known as socially responsible people. I, at times; feel disgusted to be a part of a group that is by and large so inconsiderate to issues that affect all. In such times when the entire country is reeling under terrorism my esteemed classmates choose to go ahead with their plans to throw a rambunctious party all with booze and music without perhaps thinking once of those for whom life will never be the same again and this new year will not be so happy.
