Sunday, April 08, 2007

At last my daughter received her MBBS certificate from Delhi university. She sat for a qualifying exam back in 1999 and came 84th out of thirty thousand candidates. The results of the test were pasted on a wall of a verandah on the 4th floor. There was no lift and no light. Someone had brought two little candles and I was crawling along the floor to find her roll number. Her high rank ensured that she got into Maulana Azad, supposedly the best medical school in Delhi. The college office is dirty and the staff rude, slack and totally unhelpful. Collection of examination fees is announced on the last day creating panic among the students. After finishing her course she underwent one year's internship following which she should have received her certificate but two years passed and we were still waiting. We visited the college office, a distance of at least 20 kms across Delhi traffic, at least six times without any help. They sent us to Delhi university where the staff are a bunch of snarling barbarians. We went to North Campus and were sent to South Campus, backwards and forwards many times. At last when I showed the copy of the letter from the college they managed to find the certificate. Even so they shouted at me, made me come back at least six times and then went on strike for over a month. I feel like whipping these sub humans till they are begging for mercy. Am I wrong?

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