Jan 10-11' 2009 were historical days in the life of Sangram as well as IIMK. Sangram meet is IIMK vs IIMB sports meet. This time around 150 students came to campus from Bangalore.
The best thing this time was that we won most of the matches on temperament. All the close matches were in our pocket, it was only those matches where IIMB had excellent players which went in their favor.
By Sunday evening, the score was 6-5, IIMK leading and Tennis/Chess were going on. There was some fight on Tennis Court where both the captains kept to their ego, and Chess players were also asked to stop playing. Basky(my game) which was supposed to start at 6PM never got started.
So IIMB guys had made it clear that they won't be playing any game now. N they left for IIMK Campus from NIT (where matches were being played) to pack their stuff. Adrenaline was rushing at full flow in IIMK junta n they wanted the Trophy at any cost as the score was 6-5 and IIMB guys were not playing other sports. IIMK junta was standing outside the Hostel where IIMB junta was staying, n sledging to full. ‘B ki ma ka ******'
Diro was called n finally it was decided Trophy will be kept in Diro's office for 6 months n in IIMB after that.
I believe IIMB lacked sportsman sprit, n they played unfairly, also IIMK junta took Trophy in a way which was not fair, but it leads to another fundamental question 'If its right to be unfair with THE unfair ?'
In Mahabartha also, Lord Krishna asked Arjun to kill Karan although according to rules Arjun could't kill him as Karan was without weapon due to curse given by one of the Rishi's to him.
But Arjun attacked and killed him. If we go with this logic it may be fine, but then thinking a bit more deeply it seems unjust to me. That fight was between Good/Evil. It was like which thing is stronger. Evil has always used ammunitions of fraudulence. The use of the same by Good does not make him win, rather loose the event even before they win the battle. He is in a way using Evil’s ammunitions/strengths to win, which defeats the purpose of war for which it was being fought.
My opinion, I believe what happened in Mahabartha was not fair, and with the same logic what happened in IIMK was also not fair. One should play with Spirit rather making hungama out of nothing. But then this may not be practical, but idealistic of course. N at this point of time we don't have our idealistic fundas right too (:
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IIMK talkin about sportsmanspirit.IIMk has lost all the previous meets..this time may be the frustation levels of being the eternal losers reached a new high and clouded ur spirits..IIMK junta taking the IIMB girls hostage????..shame on u.. K will always remain less than B no matter u win a fu*kin sports meet or not..
Loosing all games/meet is one thing. But knowing the opponent is strong n still showing the spirit to win, or accepting defeat gracefully is what we call Sportsman Spirit.
N both of us know that we have it.
N this is not abt K coming over B, or B being better. I believe theirs always a hierarchy n it keeps changing with time, Harvard - Ahmadabad - Kozhikode as of now, No one knows how things will evolve in future. So being in IIM's we should understand this.
Also instead of having fights among ourselves, our strengths lies in unity of IIM's n emerging as best in the World. May be the purpose of such events (Sangram) is also the same.
N request you not to use things like 'IIMB girls hostage' and educate others too. We didn’t have any hostages, what we had was the spirit of an institute of not completing an event. Now if some bunch of students were there, then let’s not pick up the weakest link and make an issue out of it. I am not getting personal n want u to understand n help in solving this problem as early as possible.
Both the teams had some fault, let’s not criticize each other but accept our mistake n make sure we don't let those things happen in future.
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