Today morning, when I barely had managed to wake up I did the usual thing. With half open eyes I just hovered my mouse to check what's new and I had received a couple of pings with a link to TOI news. I opened it and was NOT shocked! I was sad, depressed but well, not shocked!
"Rohit Kumar, A third year Electrical Engineering student of IIT Kharagpur passed away due to head injuries."
In this sad moment for my alma-matter there is a weird sense of vindication that must be running through many students' minds. Not being present at the occasion does not give me any rights to give out the verdict as to whose fault it was but then having spent 4 years in Kharagpur, having seen the health and education facilities around the area it's not entirely unbelievable that the student died purely out of negligence and lack of facilities.
Ironically, Kharagpur is in the state of West Bengal, the only communist state in India. By that logic it should boast the highest health and education facilities in the rural areas. But then, for those of us who've been there long enough and have seen the state sponsored travesty of "justice" as the hypocrites love to call it, this was inevitable to be honest.
As it turns out the director resigned from the post! The same director who had imposed despotic restrictions on people going out of campus after 11 pm couldn't ensure a student's life. So much for the rules and the despots.
At this moment there could hardly be any point in doing case studies of who went wrong. So, I do the most common thing that people do - I share my condolences with Rohit Kumar's family and IIT Kharagpur.
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