So what is this NPA Movement all about?
In the recent times we all must have witnessed the chaos and tension going on in the lives of our hostel mates over trivial issues of cynical and egocentric politics. Many of us might not be familiar with these circumstances, especially first year, but these incidents happen inevitably every single year, when people are promised posts, bribed, brainwashed and put against their own people. Though its hard to realize but it all comes down to the greed and clash of egos in between seniors of 3rd and 4th year and the whole hostel is victimized in the process.
NPA Movement is started by the people who were once drifted to this filthy politics in their first year, only to realize the egoistic intentions and dirt in the minds of the people who 'controlled it'. Most of us then and there decided to leave it and since have been proposed many 'offers' directly or indirectly to get back into it and sometimes intentionally dragged into matters without consent. No wonder these days we are contacted often by the godfathers of the game.
Our ideology: Whenever decision making power comes into the hands of a few individual representing different sects and views, depravity results. Monopoly of any kind absolutely leads to corruption. There is no exception to it. And so we believe that the authority to make decisions should not be like a system of dictatorship but rather should be the responsibility of a group of individuals who will direct the respective representatives of the house. As we all would agree that there are certain parties within the hostel so this group will include members from all the divided parties to give their view points and bring the issues of concern for the benefit of everyone. This system will result in fairer decisions and policies.
No system can be perfect, we know that but if we can make it better then there is no harm in changing for what is good. It must be very clear that we are not biased and influenced by any party or group. This is our own initiative and we don't expect total change in the rigid minds but we are here to express the thinking of the radical minds.
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NPA
"We believe in change for the good."
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ReplyDeleteyaar itne fatte to log roz hi maarte hain ... karoge kya ye to bataao.
ReplyDeletewotevr is written above is simply a blatant ridicule of the process that takes place in hostels ... come up with an idea as to what you plan to do ... how will your group ensure that there is no similar lobbying as has been the case till now ... only then can u have people looking up to you and understand how different you are or claim to be.
give your movement not just a name , but also what it intends to do
for solving any problems
ReplyDelete1. there must be a problem,
2. desire to overcome it
3. proper plan and policy
4 and finally determination which can never be shown on piece of paper .
we all are sure we have problem and desire to overcome it. now we assume we identify the problem in a better way. our hierarchical hostel political system had a problem that it could not include everybody in the process of progress... look at the situation if your room's fan isn't working you'll go to caretakers room 4 times and fan gets repaired after 3 day ... you won't be knowing maintenance secy's room even if you know it won't help :) can't we simply make a google group for these complains which'll be checked by any member of hostel maintenance committe...
we believe in participatory work and shared responsibility among all. only then we'll be able to overcome negligence. and how will we do that ?? what are the our plans and policies ?? you'll find these all in our memorandum ... which will come soon ..
cheers
NPA
A lot of ambiguous statements, a load of enthusiasm, no clarity, no vision. You guys have a name and an anthem for your movement, and now even a blog, but do you have a proper agenda? "We believe in change for the good"? Define good - your good, my good, hostel's good?
ReplyDeleteOut of the four points listed above, all I see is 2. The very fact that this situation is a problem (1) is debatable. There is no sign yet of 3. And as you say, 4 cant be proven or illustrated on paper.
The caretaker example doesnt make sense. If you wish to register a complaint, the booklet is available with the guard and the caretaker. If you wish to bring something to the notice of the maintenance committee, get out of your room, find out who your wing representative is, contact him. There is one thing you wont get in a hostel, that is room service. If you expect that, shift to a hotel.
rightly said nuke submarine[benjo] . if u want to get anything done first get out of the room. sitting in rooms and demanding a "CHANGE" as if another Obama is needed to fix your fan is not gonna help.
ReplyDeletefriends according to your description there is no problem anywhere!!!
ReplyDeleteyou can get clean toilet contacting your wing rep. whom most of us don't know... if you want to know how many of us know our wing reps, you can ask your friends that how many of them know their wing reps. and if you are M tech or P.H.D stu. and your wing rep is B.Tech or vice versa i am 100% sure you won't be knowing your wing rep.
in all government office there is a complaint book which is generally never used. why?? because incurring something into the system is not sufficient. you need to promote these things.
things you are talkin about are not practical. you see any harm complaining on web from your room rather than going to the guard??
i think if you would have been a IIT proff. you would argue like " if you want to use fast internet get out of room, CSC is not very far from hostel "
you people have problem with more facilities !!!
now i see people don't even see the problem... or they don't consider THEIR problem to BE a problem .wow !
c'mon guys there are some very small interventions which makes our life so easy ...look around...
dare to dream ...
i hope i've answered your question's
and we appreciate this
Quoting ur blog
ReplyDelete"Whenever decision making power comes into the hands of a few individual representing different sects and views, depravity results. Monopoly of any kind absolutely leads to corruption. There is no exception to it. And so we believe that the authority to make decisions should not be like a system of dictatorship but rather should be the responsibility of a group of individuals who will direct the respective representatives of the house. As we all would agree that there are certain parties within the hostel so this group will include members from all the divided parties to give their view points and bring the issues of concern for the benefit of everyone. This system will result in fairer decisions and policies."
I'll start by differing in ur notion dat the decision making in our hostel isn't democratic. We elect our own representatives or the group of individuals fair n square (the elections ie).We have a selection procedure which i presume is most appropriate dere can be and more importantly identical to what you are suggesting in this phase. But den n dere starts the phase where the deterioration of the system begins. What point i have made so far is dat u guys shldn't be (n rn't) having problem with the Selection part.
So, our main concern lies in Execution. Now dats where you guys are being hugely unfair to the system and us all. By saying dat its the POR holders who play with us is a bit disappointing. If were responsible for the selection part, why can't we share sum responsibility in the execution. You say PhD guy wont know the name of a Btech guys, why not, don't we go out, call sweepers if we want our rooms clean elsewhere, in dis case why can't two literate 'IITians' persons interact for the same.
“Be the change you want to be”
Why and where’s the change by being the Leader - we have been getting leaders for years like dat. The change dat we should strive for is the sharing of responsibility and involvement of the residents. If I m not getting a dustbin from the caretaker and throwing my garbage in the corridor or out of the window, if i m not flushing the toilet and thus rendering it useless for a day, if i m washing my shoes in the washing machine aftr being told not to (allow me to be a lil hypocrite) ; then till when will the maintenance secy bust his ass to get things in order or prevent further damage.
If we all have a check on ourselves, be a better residents, den so will be our representatives, so our PORs, so the system.
Why change the leadership, why not change the set from which these leaders are chosen..
Blaming others is such a cliché after all
But the effort is hugely appreciated...
N Nuke Submarine isn't Benjo as interpreted
ReplyDelete"you can get clean toilet contacting your wing rep." - We can get a clean toilet through our collective sense of responsibility, the wing rep aint your nanny.
ReplyDelete"whom most of us don't know... if you want to know how many of us know our wing reps, you can ask your friends that how many of them know their wing reps. and if you are M tech or P.H.D stu. and your wing rep is B.Tech or vice versa i am 100% sure you won't be knowing your wing rep." - The phone number of the maint secy is on the noticeboard, call him up to find the name of your wing rep. You say BTechs and PhDs dont interact, well, necessity makes us take strange bedfellows.
"in all government office there is a complaint book which is generally never used. why??" - Because of the reputation of inactivity associated with government offices, which is not the case with our hostel.
"incurring something into the system is not sufficient. you need to promote these things." - Everyone around in my knowledge knows where to complain for maint related issues, this is what our maint secy told us in our first day in the hostel.
"things you are talkin about are not practical. you see any harm complaining on web from your room rather than going to the guard??" - I see no problem in that (apart maybe, the net speed may become a deterrent), I am merely suggesting the system in place is sufficient to tackle this problem.
"i think if you would have been a IIT proff. you would argue like " if you want to use fast internet get out of room, CSC is not very far from hostel " " - A fallacious argument, we need to use the net on a regular basis but we need to register maint complains pretty rarely (once a month perhaps?). A trip to the guard once a month wont kill you, aa trip to the CSC three times a day will.
"you people have problem with more facilities !!!" - No one ever had a problem with more facilities, the problem is with your obsession with non-problems.
"c'mon guys there are some very small interventions which makes our life so easy ...look around...
dare to dream ..." - Fully agreed.
And I am not Benjo, is it that hard to click on a profile link?
ReplyDeleteNPA needs to be understood in more basic terms, not in terms of our "things we want to do", as everyone says in the end, the same thing. "Clean Toilets", "Better Mess Food" blah blah.
ReplyDeleteNAP is not about making promises. It is about bringing people together for doing better things.
These two existing political parties have been there for so long, standing on cooperation of its political members and betrayal of opponents, that once they come to power, all they can do is "reward the friends, punish the enemies."
NPA is new, we don't either have people to punish nor special friends to reward, as our objective is quiet different, to make a change. NPA is new, fresh like a baby, with no bias for or against anyone. So we believe we can work collectively to bring about a change.
The people at this time who are associated with NPA, are those who may have joined politics before with hope for some good change, but in the process realized that all that was happening was power play.
I don't need to tell you Nuke...how we have been tried to be used as puppets of a bigger powerplay earlier. Both of us were there...
Amazing how it all sounds just the same, either you, or any of those two parties.
ReplyDeleteBut no offence, the NPA members as I know them are some of the most (put a word here yourself) people of the hostel. Today you are all talking loud and tomorrow you will all be drunk and won't remember what NPA even stood for. How do you make me trust you? I don't seriously..
Best of luck anyways, if you can really improve things, its really needed. Perhaps you should do something good for the good of the hostel before elections. Take it as a challenge if you will, I just don't want to hear any sentence in future tense .
samar, your concern is very legitimate and i respect what you think about everything going on ... but i would like to just say that prejudices in the mind of people has always under-rated many many great thinkers before they proved themselves . i dont say that npa guys are that great thinkers , but to put all this effort and expressing their feelings and that too publicly (which is, by the way very risky :)), sends a message to all of us. they never said that they are going to do all that themselves ... they will do it with your help (not just by votes, but even after the elections). and yes, these kinda things just sound similar to the other two fronts , but one will just have to judge their commitment and desire to change the contemporary system.
ReplyDeletetheir ideas can be made practical ... it just needs a little effort and of course proper distribution of workload and not trying to take all the glory by one person as was the case earlier ...
it is time to wake up and think ...
PS: people will object my involvement in all this, but if something good is happening why not participate in it ... eh ?
Anyone can participate in anything, no one should object. If they do don't care about them. You are not from the hostel and that makes you neutral, which is a good thing I guess.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I can't see is a plan, promises and plans have a huge difference. I might support you because I know you but what about someone who doesnt know any one from any of the three groups. You need to have a plan to appeal to them. And as I guess you are getting late by the day. Best of Luck anyways.
In your own words, intention and credentials are two important things that give the worth to any movement.
ReplyDeleteIntentions can't be assured, as it is a matter of trust. The maximum that can be said is, sometimes in the way one talks one's intentions come forth. When we go out to the people, our intentions will get reflected in the way we talk! There will be grace and determination.
It is not easy to take the first step. It is risky, we know that. Tomorrow if we fail, we will be a joke for the rest. Yet we have dared to take chances! And that says something. We are not talking about people(unlike others...), we are talking about ideas!
When it comes to credentials, the people that have begun the NPA have very strong credentials. When given responsibilities they have been dome their best, and more importantly we have never mongered around responsibilities and positions as till this time it meant to lobby in front of some Godfathers. We believe in credentials and not political arithmetic. If we go out for votes, we will ask only on the grounds of our credentials. Our credentials will come forth with time...and rest assured we have not done less! Both for the hostel, and for things much more important than that! :)And that important thing is not a resume!