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Last few days have been engaging,tiring and exciting for most PGP2s at Hell including me. Given the back to back sessions by visiting faculties and a long adventurous sunday, it was a weekend that probably nobody wants to repeat. This explains the tiring and engaging part, but the exciting part was ALOO. Yes ALOO.
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It was onion which troubled BJP and interestingly it is aloo for Piyush (Mess Secy).The whole act could be converted into an interesting small case study. However key points worth discussing are:
1. The role of Social Media
2. The role of Humor
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Today Social media is the “talk of the town” and everybody uses it but the way it was used in this case, it was unique. Most of the hellites were tired by eating Aloo day and night and there were some noises in the mess everytime an Aloo dish was seen but nobody had time to really discuss it with the Messcom/Secy, though few persons (as I know now) complained about this. So when people don’t have enough time to discuss and protest because they are busy FBing what do we do? Here comes a revolutionary idea. Bring the protest on FB.
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Dheeraj (our very own Sec D CR) brought this to FB with a bang bang Mess Menus of Bade Aloo, Chote Aloo, Lambe aloo and what not aloo. As of day it has 30 “likes” and almost same number of comments, of which few are from Our mess secy. The fact that it was discussed, noticed and appreciated meant that it was a genuine problem which the batch was having. It was also worthwhile to note Mr. Mess Secy was active enough to respond to these discussions. Thus the message was clear and loud and reached where it was intended to.
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The Mess Menu by Dheeraj
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Another aspect of this whole act is the use of humor. There were 2 pictures which were put and both had humor content. So while the message was put right there in the middle, it was made receptable. So Mr. Aloo was being saved for our future generations using a PeTA movement though no nude celebraties were used.
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PeTA by Dheeraj
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The latest update is that the August mess menu is out and happily our PeTA has worked. Now we have four Aloo dishes in a week compared to earlier of Ten. I am not aware and can’t say was this the direct effect of this FB thing but at least it must have accelerated few discussions among Mess Comm.
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P.S.: The Aloo fever has caught Hell. Blondie Poll and Blodie Doodle both have Aloos all over. A beautiful doodle by not so beautiful designer Mayank Singh.
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P.S.: The purpose of this post is not to protest against our Mess Comm/Secy and in no way to undermine the amount of work they put (Hell loves you GUYS!!). I understand that partly a reason for serving so much of aloo could be because of no real options available during this season.
