A new party, CPII(M) launched with much fanfare!!!

Reporting from PGPX II @ IIMA, I am happy to announce that within a week of reaching the campus, the esteemed members of my batch have launched a new political party, the CPII(M), better known as the CPinIIM. And ladies and gentlemen, as one of the founding members and executive leaders of the Class Participation Party, I present to you our symbol, the “raised hand”.

Our party has been founded on the seemingly bullet-proof premise, that the best way to make oneself the darling of the professors and thereby enhance one’s learning experience is to interrupt them while they are trying to do their job. Our manifesto envisions a total “go-slow” on our famed academic rigor and we intend to accomplish this through our designated CIOs (Chief Interruption Officers) who are deployed strategically all around the class room. Some of these leaders are so good in what they can do that they even lend a “raised hand” to interrupt professors who have already been obstructed to more than half an hour behind schedule, struggling to rush through the material, all the while the next professor is waiting outside, and breathing down their neck.

We may have a million (=10L) reasons not to, but that doesn’t stop us from going up in arms at the slightest of behests, whether to ask the silliest of questions or to share with the professors a lesson or two from our vast knowledgebase of age old experience. I am sure that our adcom is definitely ruing the process by which they looked for substantial experience to enable class participation, because what we have bargained for ourselves seems to be more of the substandard kind.

These hand raising “andolons” together with the dog fighting that keeps happening whenever study groups get together to discuss cases have virtually ensured that the only thing that we are in the risk of taking away from campus at the end of the year will be the pounds that we are gaining from our structured interactions with the IMDC mess. Everything else has been brought to a grinding halt by the total strike that has been enforced by CPII(M) and its fearless leaders. Talk about a class struggle... And our demand: nothing short of world peace, liberty and equality for all, and last but not the least, an A+ in CP for every party hard worker of our rank and file.

The only downside that we are seeing to all these party action of ours is that some of our mates are already giving our party the “raised hand”, with most of their fingers pointing downwards except the middle one. They seem to think that we are interfering with their learning. Anyways we were too busy ‘class participating’ instead of participating in the management communications class, where non-verbal signals were discussed.

So going full steam ahead with our manifesto, I request one and all, to please do Vote for the “raised hand” the next time, whether you know the answer or the question or neither. After all, we have nothing to loose other than what we have already lost - the million.