Insti and Tam junta!!

So here goes.. Tam junta in IITM are one of the most unique type of people in IIT Madras. First of all, the localite tag hangs on them. The irony being, people might be from Pondicherry, farther than Tirupathi, whereas the Pondy guys will be called 'localites', while the Tirupathi junta are safely at home, away from home. Secondly, they are generally branded the RG junta of insti. I personally don't subscribe to that brand, but you can't help it considering insti toppers for quite some time have been Tams. In fact, the four years of insti toppers are Tam junta presently. That doesn't help our cause either. Thirdly, we are branded to be among the more selfish guys in insti, the people with least insti-spirit and stuff like that. Sadly, insti-spirit amounts to not going home on weekends, putting hajjar fight for watching movies on weekends, playing CS, Dota, and everything under the sun, and shunning your books for the entire semester except for those days when a quiz is to be written the following day, or an endsem is. Almost all of which a typical IITM Tam fails to follow!

Yes, Tams are stereotyped! Tams have an average CGPA of 8.5+ in insti. Tams are junta who hardly wash clothes in insti, and run home with a cloth bag in hand, come the weekend. Tams invariably wear something on their foreheads, unless they are from Timbuktu, and wish to return there soon. Tams invariably carry a water bottle with them, whenever they go for classes, even if its the peak of the winter or rainy season. Tams speak in Tam in huge groups, and have an internal scapegoat, at whom internal P.Jokes called Mokkais are passed at regular intervals, with everyone else laughing. Tams try speaking everything axiomatically and statements are loaded at you like theorems. But, eventually Tams are all fun! Trust me, more so about IITM Tams.

If Baby and Nishaanth are going to be in the same wing, it might seem very studious, but it takes a Tam to go and ask a prof permission to pack the lab coz Sachin is blazing on 160+! Sreeki adds more firepower to this brand of Gang(a)sters, who can set the hostel on fire with the amount of lame PJ's they can generate instantaneously.

Look at THE wing of the insti! Saras first floor the 150's wing is the stud wing of the insti. Not surprisingly, its a Tam wing. But you have the insti's greatest Rapper, Singer, Cricketer, the insti's Bazooka, The Ram in the wing. It's one of those wings known by the name of the persons occupying them. The Ram wing. What makes it even more special is, two insti studs, Shaileshh and Rak, are overshadowed by the Ram effect here.

Godav is another haven of gods. Not much can be said about the hostel, when Elec Jaambavan Sudarshan, and Jana are there in the ground floor. It has the insti's only second year journal paper publisher, Sunder.C! Oops, Shuddhodhan! It also has some stud and very friendly Tam junta from outside TamNad, like KK. But, it has its claim to fame in the presence of two other creatures. Two creatures Manda shares his neighbourhood with. One, the FOCUSVas. The FOCUSVas, is the insti's biggest RG, the insti's S1N1 Virus. The three symptoms of having contracted the virus go as follows, firstly you speak of others in high esteem, second stage being you speak of yourself in low esteem, thereby RG'ing them. The third stage is self-RG. If these stages hit you, you are well on track to become the next FOCUSVas. The second power is the power of everything. THE R! R is a phenomenon, R is a phenome, R is not a menon, coz R is Tam not mallu. But, R is everything! R is powerful to the extent that he influences the R-ness of every living being in the insti to make a person rise or fall as necessary. The R rocks!

Tapti has another Attagasam wing, who call themselves by wierd names, but whom I'd like to call the Puja gang. They perform pujas almost everyday for world peace. The reason behind the puja instigation could be India's loss in a cricket match, or India's win in another match or anything else happy or sad, delighting or deprieving, whatever! It is the insti's funniest Tam wing, where people are kept in splits almost throughout. It also has its own Dubai Sheikh, in incognito in IITM with a namam on his forehead. The King of Katar rocks!

Jam, coincidentally rhyming with Tam, has a stud Tam gang as well. CJR, Jaichu, the names would give you plain terror. But it's not to be. It's a lot of fun. CJR is hardly the sweater his grades show him to be. Jaichu is the slogger, who is always, always loaded with some work or the other. For instance, WebOps or something of that sort.

Finally, the duo the insti has been in awe for quite a while. If you haven't experienced the torture of dual action Ajith films, this package is for you, all free. Rakesh and Rajesh rock! Two guys who are capable of proving and doing anything and everything. Singles, Doubles, however the package arrives, its an atom bomb waiting to explode anytime, with multiple blasts.

So, in effect, the insti Tam gang is a lot of fun, and much more than what mortals think we are! We rock, individually and as a group! :)