It was the second Sunday of April 2011. I was on invigilation duty in entrance examination of IIT Roorkee. Twenty candidates out of twenty-four allotted to the room, were present. IIT exam. has evoked a strange interest after Three Idiots.
I was keener to know the faces of prospective engineers in my room than they would have been in appearing for the examination.
The bell rang. Booklets were distributed in order. It started like any other exam. After some time, the environment became a little loose on their part. Out of them only six were seriously doing their part of exam, two candidates were serious in enacting the scene of being serious, actually they were not.
It appeared they didn't know anything and were passing time.
Six candidates were somewhat busy like average students doing their best as they could. One was passing time by looking at me and my colleague on duty in the same room. He would rotate his gaze as soon as one of us would see him doing so.
Two were bold enough to pass time looking outside the window. One was simply passing time by keeping his head down and relaxing.
Two of them were creative enough or were passing time creatively or could not resist but showing their creativity and passion.
One of them was making picture of, as was seen from that seat.
The other, a girl was making pictures of dresses on the blank page of her question booklet adding captions depicting her own emotions like 'A budding designer', 'Flop of dreams unlimited'.
Watching all this inside the examination room, I was thinking about Whose dreams? their parents', of the society or their own, still not able to come to the conclusion.
(An old post published now.)
