The PR Disaster
Long time no see! Well I have been through worst phases of my four years at IIIT. Details later. I tweeted about convocation dress code yesterday. Nishant (hobbit) pinged me regarding the same. And the conversation after that turned out really funny.
Nishant: dude
when is convo?
(I misread the above as ‘what is convo?’. Was surprised why Nishant wouldn’t know about convo)
me: convocation i suppose …
Nishant: yes
me: does it hv another meaning ..
oh .. (I re-read his question and realized the mistake.)
Nishant: what’s the deal with graduation day dresses?
me: dhoti kurta =))
or payjam kurta 
Nishant: are you f***ing serious?
me: yeah F***ING serious 
wait a minute .. (forwarding the mail to nishant)
Nishant: my God it’s going to be a f***ing pr disaster
dude
me: check ur gmail for serious fun
how is that going to affect page rank ? (I thought he was talking about page rank of iiit website)
Nishant: damn you
pr = public relations
f***ing geek
me: gawd!!
sorry
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And I thought PR == Punjabi Rasoi
Next they will want us to wear our own hand-sewn cloth. 
It sucks though, dhoti and kurtas
ditto…
even I thought we were talking Punjabi Rasoi here
but seriously… r the ladies now supposed to wear authentic village-wear sarees
It’s not as Radical an idea as it may first appear to be — certain other double i’ed institutes have been doing it for years:
http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/topfiles/convo_09.html
http://www.iitb.ac.in/academic/convocation/lettertostudents08.pdf
Why didn’t you ask them what is the reason men should not wear a ‘lungi-kurta-gamcha’ and women should not wear ’sari without blouse’. After all that will be a better way to respect Indian cultural integrity. Or wear just ‘half-dhoti with naked chest’ to respect our Father of Nation.
an by the way, seriously, PR – page rank of a dress?? common…
@Gagan, @Sankal I would have thought that in my first year
@Jimmy thanks for the links
@Sukesh Phool patte would be even better … the very first generation
PR==Page Rank… lol…