Musings of a dispassionate soul

Monday, February 05, 2007

IIT under attack

The summer of 2016 had been a momentous one for the students, staff and alumni of IIT Guwahati .It had seen the elite institute take it's well earned place at the summit of the world's technological innovators. Although the groundwork had been laid a long time ago, the catalyst for propelling IIT Guwahati to the top was the research work of it's nanotechnology department. With the aid of a few exceptionally talented students and under the able guidance of the "Einstein-look-alike" A.Chatto, the department had just helped the Indian Army deal a strong blow to insurgents in the state by developing state-of-the-art nanoweapons unlike those ever seen by the world before. This had won the institute global acclaim, and even made the ex-editor of the now out of business "India 2-day" acknowledge their mistake in not ranking the institute as one of the top 10 colleges in the country barely a decade earlier. There was hence an air of ga(y)iety about the place when the new academic year started. Students were delighted by the turn of events that had catapulted their college to the forefront of must-visit places for on-campus recruiters (They were also pleased at the institute finally getting the respect it deserved). Little did these delirious dudes know that there was something in the works that would have a dramatic impact on them.
The peaceful activists at ULFA were not very happy with the turn of events however. And who could blame them? Their plans to turn Assam into an economically successful military state modeled on the lines of Pervez Musharraf's Pakistan had been thrown into chaos. At an emergency meeting convened after the slaying of their top brass, the (new) top brass condemned the use of violence to suppress what had historically been a relatively peaceful freedom movement. It was during this meeting that a decision was made to attack the Indian Institute of Technology. This was a reversal on ULFA's previous strategy of ignoring the presence of an IIT in Guwahati.(As late as 2013,ULFA leaders had gone on record saying that had there been an IIT in Guwahati, it would have certainly been attacked at some point in it's history. This was just an excuse though, since ULFA was ashamed to admit that there was something at IIT that scared them to death.)
IIT Guwahati has always been blessed with women of great power(pun unintended), and it owes it's violence free history to these women. ULFA did not dare touch IIT whilst there were women in the campus. Some conspiracy theorists even suggest that the number of women in IIT was carefully controlled so to be sufficient to deter ULFA, but insufficient to deteriorate IIT's to the level of American Universities(check out AP5, if you know what I mean!)
So it was'nt exactly with peaceful protests in mind that five ULFA "activists" entered the IITG campus under the cover of darkness on a chilly night in August. Their mission was simple - plant a bomb at least one of two sites, innovatively codenamed "A" and "B". They would also have earned brownie points with the top brass for every 9-pointer they annihilated along the way. Fortunately for the students, moles inside ULFA had intimated the IITG administration about this attack, and hostel Subansiri was on code-red. An elite team of females was dispatched to "counter" the threat posed by these "terrorists" aka activists.
It was a pitched battle, during the course of which the insurgents tried to bomb the nanotechnology department, but failed since they could not find it in the kilometer and a half long NAC. Because of the failure of their primary objective, they tried to bomb hostel Kameng, but the Subansiri team did not let them(simply because most of their "muh-bole-bhaiyas" lived in Kameng). Two activists were sniped in the process. Frustrated, the remaining insurgents let loose on all the 9-pointers they could find. The Subansiri team let them do this, till their team leader(with a cpi of 9.11) was comfortably ahead in the race for the President's Gold medal. After this, they clinically fragged the remaining three activists.
All in all, a total of 27 out of the 32 9-pointers in the college were killed that fateful night. A wave of sadness engulfed the campus on learning this. Their sadness, however, was short lived, as they soon learnt that they'll get a three day holiday to mourn those that passed away.
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