It started off like any other day. A walk down Park Street to college. The gates of Music World had opened and they seemed as alluring as ever. Nevertheless I went on as the college gates beckoned. A cursory glance at the notice board …. everything seemed normal ….I went into the classroom.
Who was this entering class ? he was either from a drama troupe or one who mistook Xaviers to be AL QAIDA HQ ! He was a hooded man with a flowing white robe and an even whiter beard. Strangely enough the class kept mum and so did I. No questions asked and no attendance taken, he started off with a lecture on hand grenades…………Jesus Christ ! Where was I ? ….Yes hand grenades, their fragmentation and clip apparatus was all he was speaking about ! before he left he promised us of a practical demonstration the next day !!!!
Next came a stout man. His appearance was impressive. Surely wearing a tailored suit, Gucci shoes and silk tie he would not teach on rocket launchers ! He introduced himself as the professor of Demonocracy ( not to be treated as a spelling error, the subject was demoNocracy ) he began with the “morality behind man-slaughter” and taught us the “spirit of Suicide Squad”. Then he taught that Democracy was “FAR the people, OFF the people and BYE the people”. The more he talked the less I liked him and by the time he left I had made up my mind about approaching Father Principal regarding the change of stream……..on that issue what was my stream after all ?….I asked one of my class mates and he said that we all were doing an Honours in TERRORISM and had DEMONOCRACY and IMPERIALISM as pass subjects………by the time he had finished I had already broken off into a run…….a run down the stairs….I wanted to get out, this was not my sweetheart XAVIERS……………but on the way a man caught me in the corridor and inspite of my resistance started searching my bag. I was fined for NOT having an AK-47 in my bag……..this was more than my tender nerves could bear and I started crying ( and howling at the same time ! ) what had happened to my college ?
At that very instant I woke up from my sleep but the nightmare was far from being over. Bombs are still claiming the lives of the innocent and humanity dies a thousand deaths at the hands of genocidal fanatics all in the name of religion. May be another Hitler is being born out of this injustice.
W.H.Auden in his “1st Sep 1939” talks of the annihilation of an entire culture;
“Find what occurred at Lintz
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god.
I and the public know
What all school children learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
As tales of mass killings continue to fill the news headlines maybe somewhere such an institution does exist where the art of destruction is taught.
Who was this entering class ? he was either from a drama troupe or one who mistook Xaviers to be AL QAIDA HQ ! He was a hooded man with a flowing white robe and an even whiter beard. Strangely enough the class kept mum and so did I. No questions asked and no attendance taken, he started off with a lecture on hand grenades…………Jesus Christ ! Where was I ? ….Yes hand grenades, their fragmentation and clip apparatus was all he was speaking about ! before he left he promised us of a practical demonstration the next day !!!!
Next came a stout man. His appearance was impressive. Surely wearing a tailored suit, Gucci shoes and silk tie he would not teach on rocket launchers ! He introduced himself as the professor of Demonocracy ( not to be treated as a spelling error, the subject was demoNocracy ) he began with the “morality behind man-slaughter” and taught us the “spirit of Suicide Squad”. Then he taught that Democracy was “FAR the people, OFF the people and BYE the people”. The more he talked the less I liked him and by the time he left I had made up my mind about approaching Father Principal regarding the change of stream……..on that issue what was my stream after all ?….I asked one of my class mates and he said that we all were doing an Honours in TERRORISM and had DEMONOCRACY and IMPERIALISM as pass subjects………by the time he had finished I had already broken off into a run…….a run down the stairs….I wanted to get out, this was not my sweetheart XAVIERS……………but on the way a man caught me in the corridor and inspite of my resistance started searching my bag. I was fined for NOT having an AK-47 in my bag……..this was more than my tender nerves could bear and I started crying ( and howling at the same time ! ) what had happened to my college ?
At that very instant I woke up from my sleep but the nightmare was far from being over. Bombs are still claiming the lives of the innocent and humanity dies a thousand deaths at the hands of genocidal fanatics all in the name of religion. May be another Hitler is being born out of this injustice.
W.H.Auden in his “1st Sep 1939” talks of the annihilation of an entire culture;
“Find what occurred at Lintz
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god.
I and the public know
What all school children learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.”
As tales of mass killings continue to fill the news headlines maybe somewhere such an institution does exist where the art of destruction is taught.
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