Another Mortal Life

Well, there's some Board of Students' Publications (BSP) in IIT Delhi! And it works too! And its work is to publish a few articles on some eight pages of paper, and distribute it back to the writers! (My friends, you surely deserved a better circulation of your work.)

The above assertion of mine is a bit sarky but this is what I'm feeling right now. BSP doesn't even care to distribute its Newsletter to the common IITians! This allows some odd ones among them to write articles on the unpleasant lack of readers of the print form due to audio-visual media and the internet.

Today I really miss "Campus Rumpus" (the magazine) when I see on my table the latest issue of this Newspaper like thing called the Newsletter ( I don't know how many issues they've published but this is the first I happen to have my hands on! And that too only because a friend mentioned it and I've borrowed it from him). I still have copies of some of the (magazine's) issues. It was indeed better than the newsletter.

The magazine used to be slipped in the rooms of each and every student, but this tradition also seems to be over. "You should keep in touch with your hostel's BSP representative for this." said someone. What?? Am I talking of getting my articles published? Boy! I am just talking of getting a copy of MY institute's STUDENT publication! (No offence to anyone.)

If that's how BSP works, it will remain as anonymous in the campus as ever.

PS: While I'm talking all this, let me not forget to thank the friend who recommended my blog for 'Blog Route' section of the newsletter. Thanx! (I took it somewhat casually last sem when you told me about this!)

Update (23 hrs later):

I don't want to make changes in the original post, but I should admit here that my contention about the distribution doesn't hold for the latest issue of the newsletter (though it still holds for the previous one) because I found it being made available for the hostelers today. Moreover I should not blame the entire BSP for anything as these things are managed by one or two individuals only.

(Back to my politically correct self, after a sudden outburst of frustration!)