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Wastage in Mess

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Seeing the plates of many in the mess after they finish their meals in mess brings up several serious questions: about their civic sense, about their bringing up, about their eligibility to be called responsible members of the society. There are people who waste more food than they can eat; often what can be seen wasted from one plate could have made a plentiful meal for someone. The evil there would have been partly ameliorated had there been so much food that noone went without food in spite of this wastage. However, it's an everyday affair that people arriving towards the end of the mess timing miss out on some or the other dish. Especially if the item is supposedly special (gulab jamun, fruit juice etc.), people horde like famished, never considering that people arriving later may have to go without it. Very sad! Quite amusingly, while, the cartoon was drawn with a specific message in mind, the interpretations drawn provided a precious lesson about viewer's role. One branch

Absentmindedness or Callousness

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In research, there's always this tradeoff to be achieved between being focused, and being aware. Where lies the balance? IISc, in general, tends towards overdoing the focusing part. To the extent that we are often unaware of the interesting events happening in the campus (not that it's too big to keep track of). For some, the only real landmarks of the campus are those which lie on their way from their hostel-mess-department. A sweeping statement: This isn't good! No, it isn't! Our interest in research is in no way betrayed in our lack of interest in anything else. Above cartoon depicts a callous researcher only concerned with his experiments and a steady supply of tea/coffee, unaware of the fact that the world around him might be falling apart. The debut of Mr. Laapataa that appeared in the inaugural issue of Voices.