Wall post

My campus has this roundabout turning with the usual circular thing in the middle and a flagpost at its centre. It’s the most favoured hangout in our side of Manipal and goes by the name “Kamath Circle” or “KC”.It is around this place that loser guys show off to stupid girls,jocks play basketball,dudes hang with their chicks, dawgs pig out with their bitches…well you get the idea. Manipal has two types of places; circles, and points. Its like a weird obsession with geometry. The town is filled with places like Tiger circle(T.C),end point, peacock point, sutta point, rave point, RAPE point(I’m not kidding). The only place oddly juxtaposed with these is “KMC greens”. You life taking docs better change its name to make it sound more like something to do with math.

Nerd: Actually there is a Green’s theorem

• bottle breaks over his head*

In its old glory

Some history: Tiger circle is the centre of Manipal. The reason why it’s called so is because, fifty odd years back, when T.A Pai bought the place, there were more tigers here than humans. We don’t anymore, that’s why project tiger exists.

Recently(if you can count six months as recent), the brainy administration decided to build a wall coming from one side of this circle, going up to another parapet wall labeled “no squating“, where people do just that… squat. What surprised me the most about this is the speed with which they managed to put it up!

10 AM, I walked past the place, and there was no sign of any construction.

12 30 PM, lunch break, the wall stands there, fully constructed!

Now this wall became a huge nuisance, for now, autos couldn’t go around it, pedestrians had to walk all the way around it(or climb over it, for it’s three feet tall), and the “no bikes on campus” rule actually seemed to be working.

MIT, having its college spirit, wouldn’t stay quiet at this insult to the student populous. One fine night, a couple of hundred students rammed the wall with metal barricades and broke it to bits and pieces, screaming slogans which Bhagat Singh and other freedom fighters used during the freedom struggle.*rolls eyes*

But this did prove one thing, as a fellow blogger put it; “Singh is not King”

Singh is not king

The wall was back again the next day(pic will be put up soon), now painted red and having a granite paving over it so people could sit on it!I tell you these guys in the admin are shrewd, for now the same students who broke the wall were sitting on it with their “girls”, smoking, chilling with the guys. No wonder T.M.A Pai made this place what it is now!

I sometimes feel the Manipal University slogan has to be changed from “Inspired by life” to “Nice doing business with you”, because they do just that, but I digress.

Now the wall is THE place to hang, and students have been inspired by facebook and found new uses for it. Yes, you guessed it right, they write on it.

“Happy b’day mahima” it read one day.

“Happy birthday Rohan and Shanky ” it read another day.

I was even surprised when there were no “Happy Valentine’s day” greetings last month.

The director gave an interview to a student council a few weeks later, and when asked the purpose of the wall, he said:

“The wall was erected to keep the locals out of our campus. It was definitely not made to restrict our own students”

Now I ask you, How much good does a 3 foot wall do? They can walk around it! Just as we do!

Or wait, maybe the locals bodies are made up of different chemical constituents from our own. The wall has certain substances which attract them. They run towards it, and the moment they come close, they get “zapped”! Innovative guys, they better patent their  “localite-o-flash”.

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