Power Writing

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English Workshop by British Council

Hyderabad: The British Council is offering an intensive workshop for aspiring professionals to develop their writing and speaking skills...These courses include international English, presentation skills and power writing..."

DC, Wednesday 24 August

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First it was power steering, then power play, then power nap, then power meditation (on a deerskin) and now power writing.

Here are some examples of Power Writing:

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Power Partnership: A mutually beneficial barter exchange of Lab Khata vis a vis Theory Sessionals

Power Ignorance: Teachers and students ignoring each other and behaving like strangers when they meet accidentally at the Canteen or even Harry's when they ought to have been together elsewhere

Power Outage: When a new teacher takes his Class in F-131 on a monsoon afternoon, the power goes off suddenly due to the manual switching off of the main switch located outside

Power Chase: When Prof Khanna wants to catch the culprit and chases him from Raman to Bhatnagar

Power Collision: When he collides with the DD and the culprit escapes

Power Encroachment: When the 1st hour teacher drags his class on for 15 minutes longer and the 2nd hour teacher barges in angrily

Power Prayer: When the two comely partners look up to the Heavens before switching on the Power and the chips burn one after the other serially

Power Documentation: Tarapado-da keeping a record in his lal khata the names, roll numbers and residential addresses of all the 4th year lab students for 30 years and more

Power Dropping: The simultaneous unintentional dropping on the floor of two neighboring answer scripts at a pre-arranged time

Power Invigilation: MSS slyly following students from the Exam Hall from Raman to the GG Bathroom and catching them talking

Power Viva: When GB asks the roll number and name and considers them as the first two questions

Power Cut: Also known in the 1960s as Mass Cut

Power Kindness: gps refusing to fail the student who begs him for a Supplementary or SQ

Power Farewell: When the Phy Dept invites mrs gps also to his fond farewell...fond on both sides...

Power Driving: When MBG (whose eyesight is next only to his hearing) drives the only jalopy in the campus in the 1960s, honking on an empty Salua Road continually till he hits the embankment of the Lover's Island

Power Transfer: When the written complaint about cockroaches in the sambar of Gokhale Hall (circa 1966) is forwarded to the Manager, Warden, Chairman HMC, Gymkahna President and finally the VP who trashes it

Power Recos: Reco Templates of gps which need only the name of the student to be changed

Power Stop: Also called Full Stop...like this (.)

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