GLOSSARY OF ACADEMY

CIVIL SERVICES EXAMS:

A device to raise your value in the marriage market

MUSSOORIE:

A heaven on earth, till you reach there.

GENTLEMEN OT:

An aberration in the scheme of nature

FACULTY:

Erstwhile Gentlemen OTs

OT LOUNGE

A place to multiply the boredom of class by gossiping

PT:

A device to segregate the young and the not-so young from the truly old Young: those who lag behind in the jogging Not-so-young: those who drop out of jogging and watch from the

side Truly old: those who bravely run in the front to prove that they are

not old

GYM:

A type of torture chamber

PT INSTRUCTOR:

A fiend in human shape

COMPUTER:

A fiend in machine shape

LECTURES:

The only known cure for insomnia in history

TREK:

A chance to contribute to the pollution of the Himalayas

VILLAGE VISIT/ BHARAT DARSHAN:

Forms of modern swayamvar

INTERACTION SESSION:

A means of exchanging mutual ignorance

FORMAL DINNER:

Informal Starvation

OFFICE:

a place where people who are paid to reject your requests congregate

LIBRARY:

A place where pillows are replaced by books

AUDITORIUM:

A place acoustically designed to smother the noise of snoring

DISPENSARY:

A place where new diseases are discovered on everyday except holidays

MESS:

A place where cruel biological experiments are perpetrated on humankind

COOK:

Quality Controller of the above place

PMC:

A Good Shepherd

CANTEEN:

A place to prepare yourself to face the lectures

TEA:

An odourless, tasteless, pale coloured liquid, never hot, that drives away life

force

COFFEE:

An alternative for those who survive the above liquid

SOUP:

Similar to the above liquids, except that it has a faint odour of Surf

Excel

WATER:

A liquid that gushes out from the pipe in abundant quantities once your room is

firmly locked

KENDRIYA BHANDAR:

A local version of Ali Baba’s cave

GANGA DHABA:

Cradle of civilization

OWNER OF GANGA DHABA:

One who has unshakable faith in the mess cook

LIBRARY POINT:

A place for the OTs and tourists to gawk at each other

MALL:

A place where they sell all the things you won’t need or can’t afford

TOURISTS:

People who compete with the OTs in making Mussoorie inhospitable

THANKS

Compilation GraphicsR.S.Gopalan

K.K.Pathak

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