At 4pm on May 25, a video was posted on the Internet. In this video, there were more than 20 students in a classroom for a geography lesson. The students were napping, talking, horsing around and one of them was roaming around filming. One student said: “This is the geography lesson. Watch the show.” Then he walked up to the teacher and removed the teacher’s white hat. The class roared in laughter. Later, that student went up to the teacher and made for a physical confrontation. Another student threw a water bottle at the teacher while the first student yelled: “That stupid c*nt! Kill him!” The teacher just kept on with his lecture. The video was apparently posted by a female student in the class. Within three hours, there were 5,000 visits and 100 angry comments. The video was deleted at 7pm, but it has already been copied and distributed across the Intenet.

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There have been as many as 2 incidents of shooting in the campus of IIT Madras at 5 PM today. The first one occurred inside the Central Library and the other just outside the Library building. The shooter shot himself after killing at least 35 people. The shooter has been identified as final year Mechanical engineering student of the institute. His name is being withheld for security reasons as speculations suggest that he had more than 1 accomplice.

This shooting comes just 5 days after the deadly act by Cho in Virginia tech, which claimed 33 lives.

A student at University of Missouri has been in jail since February for creating false terror threats. He would walk into the university with waving a paper bag, holding a knife and saying he had a bomb and anthrax. His friends blame his economic situation and his academic performance behind this act of his.

Over 1,700 students have now signed the “Help Sujith” online petition urging Missouri’s governor and other top officials to help the Indian student. They said Sujith suffered from depression and was homesick due to financial burdens and academic pressure.

When Mr. Raja Ramanna came to IIT Madras to give a lecture after the Nuclear plant at Kalpakkam was setup, he was bombarded with the safety concerns as Madras is just 80 Kms from Kalpakkam. The only answer he gave was, “Chernobyl cannot happen in India because our engineering not as inquisitive as the Russian ones”. Expectedly he was booed for this response of his. Well the Chernobyl accident occurred because engineers trying to test safety of the plant committed a big blunder. Due to a faulty program the power generation fell to 1% of 35000 MW, electric (the normal output). They were so scared that they immediately restarted the plant but in the process the remnant radioactive product increased the heat generation. They tried to control it by reinserting the control rods but it broke.

I was first exposed to Internet in 2000. It was an era of costly browsing as the Internet revolution was in its incipient stage. People used to browse for mainly 2 reasons

1. For entertainment purposes like Desibaba,Desimama and the social networks of yahoo like chat rooms.

2. Exam results.

My friends created one yahoo id each and we used to send e-greetings to each other even though we were roommates. E-greetings were cool and it could have overtaken Archies card galleries only if the Internet charges wouldn’t have been Rs. 60/hour. One of my friend once saw me login to yahoo mail so he saw me enter my password. He later told me that he now knows my password. Upon asking he told me that it’s 5 stars, *****.