When Jabalpur forgot about Viksit Bharat
India isn't for the faint-hearted. Among the top survival skills it teaches us, the first is to expect the unexpected. It should, indeed, be the country's unofficial motto, especially after the not-so-pleasant surprise for students in Madhya Pradesh.
Earlier this month, Jabalpur's Rani Durgavati University — where Rajneesh, a.k.a. Osho, (unsurprisingly) taught philosophy as Chandra Mohan Jain — released exam timetable for MSc Computer Science first semester exam and issued admit cards.
But candidates, many of them from other districts, upon reaching the exam centre on Tuesday, were calmly informed there would be no exam that day. Why? Because the univ didn't prepare question papers. The authorities, we've reliably learnt, forgot they had to conduct an exam.
This was crazy even by Indian standards. But when the registrar said it's wrong to suggest there was 'major negligence', we're talking new levels of craziness. Eleven other exams were conducted smoothly by the staff that day, but '...in the MSc Computer Science paper, there were only nine students… There was some negligence,' he explained.
While our heart goes out to the students for the emosanal attyachaar they have faced, one wonders if the univ was channelling its inner Osho, and trying to teach the philosophy of embracing all experiences of life?
