MOM AND I WERE ASSAULTED in a road rage incident yesterday at 9pm under the Anna Flyover (Gemini). Both of us were slapped on the road. How easy is it to beat a woman on the road, if you're rich and influential?
So they froze the funds of two IISER Mohali profs for supporting the letter disputing IISc's decision to cancel talks by Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita. Just close down all science institutions and build cowsheds instead.
I paid 1950 Rupees for CUET-PG to attempt six papers. This is for a reserved category student. I'm privileged enough to but that's not true even for my immediate cousins. And if General Category students have to pay twice, insane. The government is just an extortion agency now.
So some prof from IISER Bhopal sends this email. Some point in the past IISERs were at the forefront of modernity and progressive cultures inside educational institutions. Now they're letting some old men live their fantasies of being school headmasters policing everything.
Guys, it's finally happened. I got the job I was so dearly, eagerly and so stressfully waiting for. It's quite the dream job for me. I will be joining an institute that does amazing work, and working with people I think are the cool kids of science.
The reason Neeya Naana tore me apart is that dad lived a similar fate. All his siblings, my eldest cousins and my uncle as well. All talented, discontinued education at some point. My periappa writes so well, but was pushed to drop out at 8th.
Found out that IISER Berhampur asked students to sign an undertaking with the following conditions upon admission. Are these even legal??? Such ableism. While other Higher Education Institutes are trying to help out students with mental health conditions, Berhampur excludes them?
Here's a Solidarity Statement from IISER Pune students and alumni in support of the student movement in IISER Berhampur (
@resistance_bpr
) against the administration's excesses in moral policing and bans on clubs.
Today, students of IISER Berhampur, clad in all black attended the PK Parija lecture.
A peaceful crowd of over a hundred gathered in the hall as a symbol of student solidarity against the administration and their refusal to even acknowledge our problems.
And fuck you, Chennai. Just two people on the most popular road of the city were even bothered by a woman getting hit. Perhaps, if we were on the other end of Mount Road or on the Loop Road, those two wouldn't have been off the hook so easily.
Hurts, we aren't pressing charges. Mom's going to be alone here, dad's abroad, each of us in one city. We're too small to face this justice system. Some councillors and big people came and they all apologized it seems. I was in a separate station handling the traffic police.
MOM AND I WERE ASSAULTED in a road rage incident yesterday at 9pm under the Anna Flyover (Gemini). Both of us were slapped on the road. How easy is it to beat a woman on the road, if you're rich and influential?
I stopped on the side to confront them and noticed this dude approaching my car. He started off angrily and I got out of the car, he started getting way too close to me. His piss drunk father also came towards our car and as soon as he came, they both got handsy and slapped me.
A person came out of a car with insignia of the TN opposition party in support of them. Again, fortunately, we had a lot of onlookers crowding and somehow media people arrived. We submitted a complaint letter to the police.
Even then, the police kept trying to save them. They took a breathalyzer test of me, which I complied with. But they were trying to avoid the man's breathalyzer test. The son escaped by this time without taking a test. Finally, everybody in the presence of cameras insisted.
He did this multiple times with multiple people and we don't know who these influential men were. Fortunately, we called a lawyer friend who sent a lawyer. He confronted the police, but they were trying to avoid taking a case immediately. They kept asking us to come tomorrow.
Luckily two onlookers stopped, and called the police. By this time, they were looking to escape but we managed to hold them there. The police started off okay, but the man tried to hand them his phone with someone on the call.
I didn't hit back but mom tried to get out of the car, the drunk 50-ish dad pushed against the door. My mom came out, and immediately after she confronted them, THE MAN SLAPPED HER.
@iiserbhopal
if there is a limitation with the seating arrangements in L5, please conduct the event in batches. Our parents want to see us get our degree in person, not on some livestream.
From the 2025 batch onwards, IISER Bhopal will offer:
B. Tech (4 Years)
B. Tech - M. Tech (5 Years) (Dual Degree)
in
Chemical Engineering;
Data Science and Engineering;
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
#Engineering
#IISERBhopal
#BTech
#MTech
Listened to a Tamil song by
@shreyaghoshal
. Perfect pronunciation. Then listened to a Marathi song. Perfect pronunciation. How. God took special care when he created Shreya Ghoshal.
god coming to iiser in 2024 reminds me where I belong. just been here for 3-4 hours:
> having to CHOOSE between people in different dinner tables to eat with
> spoke already with around 15 people
> actual love, respect and care
> jokes, laughter and actual science
I needed to tell you all, because Twitter has been where I cry and laugh, and for some reason, a lot of you have wished well for me, and been unaware companions to my struggles and joys. Thanks, y'all, you've all been too kind.
Would absolutely recommend, although no IISER-ite looks like this. We're in class in sportswear, ungroomed overgrown beards, with last night's Monster/ Red Bull keeping us awake.
Funny how I wasn't one bit sad on the last day of school and today I was bawling my eyes out in front of a good amount of people as I left IISER. I hope life comes out as kind as you were to me, IISER.
IISER-P folk who follow me: we're showing our solidarity with our peers at IISER-Berhampur through a statement. Please find the statement and sign here: And AMPLIFY.
Entitlement. My sister and a bunch of friends study medicine and have told me how entitled even second/third-year MBBS students act with patients. The higher education apparatus in our country has distanced the educated who see themselves "above" the public, not among.
@resistance_bpr
's show of solidarity today is insane. Look at their Instagram stories. Best thing I've seen today and will see in a long time. Student Power✊✊
Last year, when I introduced Dalit History Month at IISER, I said it could be the first and the last time we'd call it that. We're now Muktiparv, transcending identitarian associations, yet an event that invites Dalit-Adivasi people in advancing the Ambedkarite movement for all.
Everything Mari narrated about his life, felt just one degree of separation away from me. I hope Vaazhai/Neeya Naana doesn't bring pity, but makes you question the differences, in anger and in rage. Some children get picked up in AC cars, and the others break their bones.
Poverty deprives them of parents, of school, of health, of play, and of happiness. Ask the society: don't all children deserve the same education? The same care? The same comfort?Don't all children deserve a childhood, at first?
Dad used to live at his aunt's during his secondary schooling because there was no good government school in his village. Felt hesitant to eat a lot there and would starve often. I can only imagine how a scheme like this would've changed his life. Fuck you, Dinamalar.
Yeah nice going saying porncoded things on the internet and commenting on a woman's appearance the same week so much has happened. Bet your mom is proud?
Not every child in Tamil Nadu is as privileged as you are, madam. You seem to have studied in The Children's Garden School and Hindu Senior Secondary School both of which are private schools where Hindi is taught to students.
I too studied in a small private school in Coimbatore