Amity Sucks - Save people from this disaster!

For those of you readers who don’t have an idea about what Amity in North India is-
It is a private educational institution founded by AK Chauhan. I shall take you through a virtual tour of this place.

The beginning

You enter this huge campus in Sector 44 Noida to give your entrance exam. You are ushered into a hall, through a crowded reception and fussy management. The hall is full, hunt for a seat and sit down with your parents, you feel like you are in a cinema hall. The dais is spread with a conference table and a podium, all chairs are occupied except one. The king comes along with bouncers, like he is Dawood Ibrahim (who knows?).

The usual chore happens with a boring introduction by a petite lady very well attired. And finally he starts to speak. Ouch! He has a bad sounding twang; it will take your ears some time to start understanding his long speech. It is extempore….you may think. He talks about his voyage in Germany, like a built a big empire there without knowing the language and flattering begins. It is supposed to be inspirational for all those young hearts that are going to be joining this institute and committing the blunder!

The following are excerpts from his speech…

…..Once I went out with my German employees and some one who met me asked me if I was working for them….but they were working in my company, serving me, they cant believe!...

….one day I called all the workers in my office and asked them to spell my good and bad qualities, all of them only said good qualities; only one said one bad quality…
(What was it???)

.….You know, my wife, she is a Sanskrit scholar, topped in Kurukshetra University, my Son is topper in…

….My daughter went off to study in America, she did not want to study here in Amity because she didn’t want to use her fathers name and influence….

….hard work always pays, you should always work hard….

My story

I didn’t get through Jamia and IIMC slipped off very close. I had to do only mass comm from Delhi (Dad!). Amity was my next option because of its publicity and name. I entered the Okhla campus and met with Prof XXX – the Director of ASCO.

He told me that I had almost failed the exam but Chauhan has considered giving me a seat. I was shocked then. All who know me would be after reading about that impossible remark of his. It is after I spent a semester that I got to know.

AK Chauhan has some 7 heirs to his THRONE. All of them are to be addressed as C1, C2, C3… (chairman for C) by all their directors and teachers. They all shit in their pants when it comes to serving him. He is molly-coddled (kiss ass is what I mean decently) when he is around. And when it comes to his speeches, some of my collage mates are so talented that they imitate him word to word, so beautifully.

The tag line of Amity is – “We nurture talent”.
When we gave our auditions for RJing, we all thought of one thing – Amity – We torture talent!

Classes ‘according to syllabus and practical teaching’ is a rare phenomena. Now you know why none of his kids passed out of here, they’d rather have ‘spent’ money elsewhere and not do it for free, for nothing in here. We are the fools!

One week before the exam, as a student here, you are bound to get lots of notes photocopied from some library book that you will never be informed of at the beginning of the semester! If you want to learn photography or movie camera handling, you better get your own and beg the teacher and torture him to sit with you and teach you!

Our class in particular was a cursed batch. The younger ones got all the attention, teachers loved them, we were taken for granted.

This one time, I had the chance of visiting one of the student meetings of AK Chauhan. I was so ashamed with my director’s behaviour. He went near him shivering, bent down and whispered in his ear with his right hand covering half his face, like we used to bitch in 2nd grade. After a few seconds, the king rose with a red face and blabbered at the top of his voice in front of a buncha’ kids! The director froze; he was shivering even more now.

In college, we were so confused as to when to complain to him about no classes, because we had to always understand the state that he would be in, anger, calm, anxious… we had to guess. You might be wondering who was more mature in this context. Yes that is the point! As the ‘C1’ likes to be the Hitler, Singh is the Mussolini in college. He taught us about corporate culture. This is the corporate culture in Amity!

New Campus – a mail….

This is a letter exchanged by a student like me who knows me.….

“The tragedy that happened with me was terrible ya. I had submitted my fee draft ok, only had to fill the bank form. Y'day being the last, Sir said I had to do it in Sector 125 only. Imagine - to fill the form I was to go all the way. He gave me this morning as bakshish. I arranged for a cab and went there this morning and what happened, the guard dint lemme go in coz I had no I Card. Since when did amity get so stringent about RULES????

I then spoke to sir from the gate and he tells me that he had filled the draft for me and given it away. The receipt? Now I had to find where the goddamn college was located in that massive muddy area. “D block. where is it? there it was in one corner, no board no indication. building material strewn all around it paper boards, bricks, scathes and rods and so on...”

Bera Bhaiya arrived thankfully and led me in. the sight was truly amusing. the building smelt of gum and dirt. On the third floor lay our director! The board of ASCO was now visible hung up on the dingy hall way! Then I saw all the faces and my soul came back into my body. The fatso was in his room, with three people in front of his desk taking dictation. The staff is attached with his room. The rest of the rooms smelt yuck and no construction work whatsoever has been completed, there is a loo only for faculty!

Three classes were happeneing, kalyan, ashish and another. Our class hasn’t even been identified as yet.
'sdkjlfhfh' was there along with 'itruirt' and 'lsdkfjfd'(names). I dint even get my receipt untill now yaar. I curse this univ to hell. there ain’t no board showing people that its amity even outside for pete's sake!

Advice!

If you meet anyone asking about amity – tell them NO, if you don’t, you will be damned. Amity has no accountability and it’s a money shedder. For those who have lots, its no big deal. But not for people like us, you and me. I am so bugged of my fate that I have started to work and just give exams for the Goddamn degree! Please help the society, advice everyone!