Hello,I am a teacher of Computer Science, from India.

It is more than a month since I joined IIITMK. How do I feel about it ? The first few days of course went in discovering this lovely sea side city. It was also an experience getting used to a new work place, new colleagues, new culture. Once the euphoria has died down, it is time to take stock and look ahead.

I noticed that in this one month I did not pick up a quarrel with anybody. I did not have to scream at anybody or bang the desk in pent up anger. Which speaks a lot about how I feel here, and about this place itself. This place is not without flaws. But these are flaws which people are sincerely trying to correct. This is such a great contrast to the four years of torture I faced in our JNTU colleges back home. How can one set of people be so methodical and professional, and another set of people be so incompetent and foolish ? How do these JNTU colleges survive and make money, in spite of all the chaos which they create and nurture, and all the dumb people they have recruited ?

I hope this feel-good mood will last for the rest of my stay here. I hope I will never have to show the other face of 'dynamite" Partha to these people. Keep your fingers crossed and taped.

partha