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Holly crap.. thundered Professor Ram, to whom the Vice chairman Prof Shanmugham Iyer had given a piece of literature to read.... I wonder who writes such stuff... looks so very monotonous.... and far away from truth....Others who sat in the common sitting room having tea, laughed at the astounding ways of Prof Ram... he always did it .....he said it out ,what he meant in a typical lingua, often forgetting that he had left the industry and is now with the GIM....and is a Professor..

It is a contemporary expression of a colossal..... Said another prof, no prizes for guessing, he taught English in the afternoons to classes, who where only half receptive, the other half being asleep......
I sat there blank, unable to take sides( let me admit it here, I was "loyal" to the GIM management, not that I was happy to be so, but that I was wanting a choice !!) and feigned that I was reading The Business line...
Why dont you tell the VC (Prof Shanmugham Iyer- the vice chairman was often referred to as ) that it is utter nonsense? .... inquired Prof Anandalakshmi , sipping her tea and reading from a Finance text book as well...

Now that I have done it in your presence, will I have to take the pains to go and tell him too ?..... quipped Prof Ram in a tit for tat and the place reverberated with laughter at the joke...I saw her face burning in disbelief at the statement..

Ram had ignited a fire , and all of us could see it....he had just opened a Pandora’s box by talking out something which others always felt to be true but wouldn’t dare enough to talk out.

Anandalakshmi was a Tamil Brahmin and so was the VC and together (with some others) they formed the heart of the Tambrahm (Read Tamil Brahmin) clique which made GIM a very funny place....I was more than aware of the fact that she was a SPY ,as GIM circles called an informer and believe me we had them in plenty.....
Everywhere, lurking like blood thirsty vampires, dying for information which they will gather, analyse, add, multiply, subtract, divide, garnish with spices make it hot and take it to the bosses at the HQ.... You in this B School will never know who is a friend and who is a foe... the guy who sat with you and bad mouthed the Bosses, may be the one who will ditch you behind your ass..

I have with wonder and often with amazement seen her smart ways of rising in the ladder in spite the poor feedback that she so skillfully 'managed’ to get semester after semester....laughter persisted and she walked out of the common room and barged into her cabin, ostensibly unable to defend the group assault and the fact that no one, not even her fans ..her associates in the clique, did dare to support her in a hour of need...

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I was late to the class that day and the kids were up in their peak of disorder.... some came out of the amphitheatre where the class was scheduled and stood in the quadrangle facing the sea.... it was a beautiful sight there to see the distant sea from the quadrangle of GIM... a truly beautiful sight.....But not as per Dr Jesus.... The chairman's only son, the Director of GIM, US educated soft-spoken administrator but at times flaring up like a forest fire which made him behave like a crown prince ( which he was) and earning him the sobriquet from the North Indian students who studied there- Samrat Natvardhan or in short nattu .....He was also an evangelist( by profession or passion you may say, for Jesus was confused which one was true) which some accuse as the families another trick for making money...the family- if one closely observed could see - how they were into the two most happening businesses -Education and God....

Why are those people standing there? ......shouted Jesus calling out Jansi william , the secretary in the faculty office.

The poor lady trembled, muttered and murmured for want of words and things to say.... It was no way in connection with her job but again neither she, nor the authorities in GIM knew what her job was.. she came.. sat in the faculty room at the centre table.....did all the work the faculty gave her, often dumped on her without grace and with impudence, ran to the head office when some one called her asking her this and that, often things far outside her knowledge and area of expertise and got abuses and statements which made her eyes wet the whole day..... and very often get kicked ( not literally ) by the frustrated students who saw her as a safe place to vent out.....

I am asking you...Thundered Jesus.....

I don’t know sir... she shivered as she said...whose class is this now ?

It is Prof Sukesh..sir....

Ask him to meet me before he goes to the class.... and tell the class representative that he is suspended for the next one week...Jesus walked into his Plush cabin and Jansi ran to the faculty room, half relieved that her life ,for the moment is saved and half trembling as to what will happen next.......