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It has been 4 weeks since the start of our startling life at TIP. For me life has taken a dramatic and extremely sharp turn, resulting in a lot of astonishing and unforeseen happenings around us. When I first stepped into the brown bricked building of TIP and saw the lake and the lawn, I was like gosh, what a real heaven on earth, but as time passed by I gradually started to realize that there is a great deal of darker side to things at TIP. I don’t mean to point at something or somebody, but literally speaking, the second part of the picture is revealed after quite sometime. I have met some really nice and supportive people as well as some really nasty and self-centered ones. But to be very honest, that’s the way in the walk of life, you get to meet different kinds of people, but it do help you to cope up with almost anyone, it makes you learn how to manage situations and how to deal with good and bad people.

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Whose responsibility is it to develop the self? Who is going to make the difference? Who will confront the tough realities of life? Who will rise to better his economic and social condition? Who will choose to be happy and let others be happy? Who will dream and dare to make the dreams come true? Who will cooperate with others in worthwhile endeavors? Who will pray? Who will forgive? Who will apologize and mend fences? Who will listen? Who will lend a helping hand? It is the ‘I’, the ’self’ that has to perform. The ‘I’ came to this world; the ‘I’ will die to this life; and the ‘I’ will do whatever it takes, in the interval between birth and death – no matter how long this time happens to be! There is no escaping the ’self’, the realization that it is you, and no one else, that must initiate all thoughts and actions. This is what calls for building the ’self’. What does it take? Where do you begin? How about starting with ’self’ awareness!

To understand the self is to understand the universe. It is a very tall order. Whenever I ask some Read the rest of this entry »

The freshmen have spoken. And they’re loving TIP! 50% of their population finds the campus so pretty, they’re going crazy telling people about it. 33% still haven’t been able to get over the shock of ending up here. They’ve been talking balderdash in reply to every question they’re asked. 17% are screaming their lungs out to be rescued.

May God help them. All of them.

My first week at TIP, and I can’t help not think:

• 50% Gosh, the campus is so nice. I’m going to have the time-of-my-life here. (9 votes)
• 17% Aarrrrh! What is this hellhole?! Get me out of here. (3 votes)
• 33% Hum de hum. Hum. Hum de da. (6 votes)

This poll ran from August 29, 2007 to September 16, 2007.

by Rahim Jindani, TS 2

Well it’s been almost a month and a half since I heard these views about TIP, and I was shocked to hear them by people who didn’t know the reality. But then I tried to find out whether the views shared by people in general about TIP were true or not. I heard people saying that our university provided the best opportunities for individuals to show off the animal within them, and get involved in all kinds of cheap and vulgar activities. Read the rest of this entry »

Another case of Dengue fever… Read the rest of this entry »

Being the gutless person I am, I naturally respect anybody who has the courage to perform on stage, or display their vocal, or directorial talents to the behuda crowd of TIP; thus you will find barely any criticism of anybody who performed at the Freshman Gala in this article. As compared to the previous years, this time we were better off; performance as well as audience-wise. Of course, the comparison doesn’t mean much, seeing that there WAS no gala in 2005, and the 2006 disaster is not worth mentioning.

This year there were fewer technical glitches, the mini-concerts were not as ear-torturing, and the 3^rd and 4^th year sciences were acting semi-civilized, which Read the rest of this entry »