ye 'biasing' kya hota hai....

I think that the most interesting thing that students like me can possibly be involved in within the insti premises is 'viva'... Somehow I hav already had a variety of 'viva' experiences like most of us...one thing being common though, the look on theprof's face...However, there was a viva which we really screwed up, fortunately so, since till date whenever we come out after a viva, the reaction always is..." naa be...usse bura nahi hua hai.."

Period: 1st sem
Venue: EC lab
Characters: Pari, Chaubey,Chaiti(me), she (As far as Sn is concerned, leave it upto
them)

We were the 2nd grp to go, the 1st one was grilled for about an hour. Still, I was confident that given our preparation, it wont last for more than 10 minutes unless she was in a mood to destroy.Unfortunately, she was...

In the meantime...
Chaubey: abe biasing kya hota hai be...
Pari: arre saala...isko biasing bhi nahi pata hai...haha
me:tu bata de na fir..
Pari:abe wahi yaar...wo jo...nahi puchega be...itna asaan thori puchega...
me:haan ye to nahi hi puchega..peace maar...puchega to dekh lenge...
she(thinking): kaha se aaya hai ye log....

The Grp's name is called, we get seated...frm left to right like four defenders in a game of football...
she...chaubey...me....Pari

The game begins, first question..."your names?" ...We answered correctly, the only correct answer of the viva...

"Okay, Parived, So what do you understand by BIASING?"

Pari has a unique way of answering questions he has no idea about, just a look to the prof and the prof realises that he is wasting time....Chaubey was in no mood to surrender so he began but the pauses in between were unbearable after a minute...moreover, he had just as much idea as pari...or for that matter myself.I began with a smile and ended without it...but she had other plans." Sir, Sir...eeehh...biasing na...biasing is blah blah blah..." We knew we were in trouble, by this time though we were masters of falling into trouble without having any idea how to get out of it...

The next question began with her...she answered, I did not attempt, Chaubey stopped after his first line, Pari's look did the trick again...such minimum effort was really admirable and believe me, very funny even while we were being humiliated out there.

The viva continued this way, she answered anything that came her way, we couldn't even begin properly once...till the last n the big one came up. Meanwhile, she had answered a formula which we cudnt answer which was like: V* (R2/R1)
The Prof pushed back his chair and with a smile asked Pari " OK...V is 10, R2 is 2, R1 is 1...whats the answer???"

I turned my head 180 degrees and began laughing without any fear...coz this was humiliation at its peak and for us laughter is the most immediate response to such situations...Chaubey too did that but with his head down...Pari was intelligent enough to realise that 10*2/1 is not 20 here...kuch to gadbad hai...so he took a pause as if something extraordinary was to come out of his superhuman brain...

I realised that he was going into extra-time so I prompted with great confidence..."abe Pari...20 bol de, dekha jayega".

He replied" abe wahi to chah raha hai..ki 20 bol ke katwa le"

So he finally spoke" Sir, I need a pen and a paper"

Now, the situation went out of control, I could not stop showing my teeth even without the 180 degree turn, I am sure even the profs were having a laugh inside...but how can they show it...neways in came the pen and paper, and out of great curiousity, I peeped into look at the golden words being written by him...just as expected...10, 2 and 1...and finally 20 with a circle around it to show that the answer has been arrived at...

The prof asked" May I hav the answer please?"

Pari managed to answer with the lowest possible volume"Twenty"
On being asked to say it louder..."TWENTY"

The prof knew it was only a matter of time, his reaction of disappointment was pre-meditated, but all I wanted was the moment to freeze so that we could laugh our hearts out...well we did...

Without doubt, Madam was asked the same question, the answer as far as I cud gather was that the value could not be more that 12 so 10*2/1 was not as simple as it seemed.The Prof showed us the way, we were more than glad to leave and once we reached our places, we sat down and laughed till no more energy was left...

This memorable day was perhaps the beginning of a chain of events with a similar theme and outcome. I think this was perhaps the day that gave me a gut feel that the only way to tolerate this was to get used to it...coz amending it was( and still is) out of question...

Finally, there are no morals to be learnt from this kaand, its been a constant source of laughter for us ever since...there are plenty more..with more or less the same cast...and the cast is looking forward to more and more such moments...these are the only ways you can learn something useful from acads in kgp, who in the world cares about the definition of biasing otherwise...think about it!!