An Intruder in Girls Hostel

This article is especially written to express my feelings that was concealed somewhere inside my sophisticated heart. It was the feeling when I first entered in MNIT and saw the culture of it. After seeing the copious greenery of MNIT which was overflowing its boundaries same like a fine wine dripping from the cistern’s spouts, I still got struck with this odd feeling. I felt that feeling because I want to see the perfect MNIT. The feeling is of Interaction.

On 13^th Sept. 2011 night the news of a boy entering a girls’ hostel through some secret route spreads as fast as the air, coming out from a balloon when inflated. It is against the rules to enter the hostel of the opposite gender. When I told this news to my senior he replied in a very thought provoking way. He said, “Haha I knew it that someday the frustration shall surpass the moral norms :p ”. Though he is perfectly correct in his standpoint but I have a different viewpoint on this. I replied to him “It is not the frustration; it is the first step towards Liberalization”

When I first entered in MNIT, I saw that there was not much interaction between boys and girls. In class most of the boys and girls used to sit separately. After 5pm maximum no. of the boys and girls used to go to their hostels. The only way the interaction could happen was at the time of organizing any cultural or technical event in the college. Interaction with your opposite gender plays a major part in the overall development of us. Living in the world requires the thinking to understand each and every category of human beings. In the professional world we have to work with our opposite gender and we should know that how they are gonna react against our actions. Take for eg. In advertisement industry; one need to know the trait of the consumer of their client. When aproduct has men as their consumer then advertisement should include some kind of sporty thing or something that men like and when women are targeted as the consumers then it should be made on emotional pitch or something which women like.

I am not asking for anything that doesn’t happen in India. IIM’s and IIT’s understand the importance of interaction. In IIT’s the boys and girls are allowed to enter in the hostels of girls and boys respectively. They have a time limit for that but still they are allowed. In IIM’s there are mixed hostels. There might be a girl living next to a boy’s room. And it not just in IIM’s and IIT’s but there are many colleges in Maharashtra that follows the same cultural because they know the importance of interaction.

It is not the frustration; it is the first step towards Liberalization: I see the act of intruding as an act to tell the administrators of college that you need to walk with the 21^st Century pace. You need to remove your orthodox style of thinking. Nothing bad gonna happen if a boy is allowed to enter in girls hostel. We are engineering students, we are in 20’s. We have amassed at least that much of experience that we can think of the right and wrong.