The Backbencher Syndrome

Time: Summer 2005
Venue: Some classroom in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

“The line to ground capacitance thus has a net leading effect on the transmission line…”

S : A for apple (draws an apple on the notebook), B for Ball (draws a ball), C for cat (tries drawing a cat, gives up) C for…C for…
P and Me giggle
S (glaring): Cup, you perverts. (Proceeds to draw a nice little tea cup)
P: Is ke baad hindi alphabet ka banayenge.
S and Me give smiles of complete agreement

“…people not interested in this class may leave, and if I remember, you three barely passed in the mid-semesters.”







Time: Summer 2007
Venue: Some conference room, in some factory in Chennai

“…the purchase order requisition is given through this command, which is again linked to the finished good identification because…”

H (looking at the new Orkut homepage) : Yeh bandi maal hai, she’s mine.
B: Ok, I take that foreigner one.
Me: I still don’t understand why none of you like this one, I find her cute.
H (shrugs): To each his own, I say we give this hairy dude to K.
K: Sale, tune meri biwi ka photo nahi dekha hai, isiliye yeh bol rahaa hai.
B: Hee hee…

“Please pay attention, I wouldn’t be repeating all this stuff”






I still haven’t been able to put a finger on what has changed and what hasn’t.