Recession might be over soon..read below to find why

Fig1: The HJB Hall Mess, Furniture Layout,Top View or Plan


Fig2: HJB Hall Mess,IIT Kharagpur in 2007, Actual View

Fig3:Dining Hall, Christ Church College, University of Oxford

Today I saw a shaker line behind the dark clouds of recession,the original line is like.."there is a silver line behind every dark cloud".The private managers of HJB Mess purchased some new salt shakers, and it was off-course, at least for me, a delight to see the new guests in the mess. As we all know we are living through the economic slump these days, shares' prices plummeting, goods being piled up in godowns because of supply and demand mismatch, layoff by companies as cost cutting, economic boost by governments, world leading economies like USA, Germany and France recording negative growth rates, GDP growth being revised in India every fortnight, IITs recording there lowest placement stats,auto makers world wide struggling to keep factories running, big companies going for mergers, special loans being announced,Real estate prices coming down are few things being mentioned which are going in a direction opposite than the intended.And as it was there, we found a good excuse for everything in it, some being very hilarious like students not performing well at the spring fest ;reason -Recession, only four kavis(Poets) at the Kavi Sammellan,;reason -Recession, train getting late; reason again -Recession.Lets talk about messes now..when we talk about messes..the quotation "the other side of the grass is always greener" seems to be the most truthful sentence.We always compare and curse, like some IIT Bombay has best mess among IITs, some including the author say IIT Kanpur is very good, here at KGP the guys say that RK hall's mess is best because of the healthy donation from its world famous alumni Mr. Vinod Gupta,for the information of readers, Mr. Vinod Gupta is an IIT KGP alumnus who is the former chairman of infoUSA, the company which he once started in US, and is very near to former US president Mr. Clinton, he has by now donated more than $8 million to IIT KGP.We do not know about the best one but HJB's is certainly among the worst.All the negative adjectives are used to curse it,the furniture is tacky and old fashioned,the layout is uncomfortable(see fig.1) the food is unhygienic,tasteless and looks ugly,and the menu is very illfully designed, everything has potatoes in it, here we have to say to the icecream walas and cake walas that "Dada, aaloo flavor nahin hona chahiye".[For a better understanding, lets see fig 2 at the top, the picture being taken by Author when he joined in 2007,by his Sony Ericsson K750i, 2MP autofocus camera,and also see the fig3 just below it, the dining hall at Christ Church College,University of Oxford, which was in news around one year before when Benazir Bhutto, former pakistani president was assassinated in December 2007, Benazir's son Bilawal Bhutto who is now president of Pakistan's People Party, who studies history there].And top of it, Mr. Ashutosh Shinde convinces,persuades and almost compels everyone to say that "quality of food is good or improving",bloody one year before when he was not the Vice-President , back then he never realised this "white lie", for heaven's sake stop doing this sin Ashutosh.HJB mess is like that only since its inception in 2000 but recession came recently and I thought its only because of recession that there are too few a Salt Shakers in the mess and despite of feeling very frustrated because of it I kept quiet waiting for the recession to end and then the mess authorities may have enough money to raise tenders and then to do vendor selesction and somehow the arrival of new shakers seemed to be a thing which was not looking plausible till 2009 end.Now have a look at the picture at top, its depicts the way the furniture is organised in the mess. The number of tables outdo the numbers of shackers by almost a half(see fig1).For eleven tables, there are five shackers, I have always felt great frustration for it, mind you here in HJB mess you are bound to feel that only, no one listens, everyone is busy counting money that is going to various pockets in a covert way.Yesterday to "roti hi khatam ho gayi" waise hi itni achachi quality hoti hai, jaise hoti thi wo bhi nahi rahi, kuch din pehle sambhar mai frog dance kar raha tha, there is lot much to mention but that will divert us from the main topic, "The Salt-Shakers". Because of a wide disparity in number of tables and number of shakers,because salt is always lesser than adequate in Dal and curries and because of different tastes of people the salt shakers are most sought after and mobile thing during the meal times.I used to think that does it cost so much that we are waiting for Mr. Vinod Gupta to visit campus and some how he discovers it and give some donation to purchase new ones, does a cheap but important thing like salt always need a revolution as big as Dandi March of 1930, being led by hon'ble Bapu, but that was a diffrent time, we were ruled by the British and there was too much tax on salt,but situation is hell-heaven different now.With "nothing could change here" thing in my mind, we waited patiently for the recession to end and to have new shakers.But todays morning I was sweetly surprised as the long awaited saltshakers had arrived, being neately placed at the side of table in front which holds the Tea-Urn and the glasses.The numbers of shakers outdoing the number of tables for the first time in last two-years, I can't say how it was before it as I joined only in 2007.I could not believe it,it was hard to do as I never thought that its possible until we were here atleast.Like in Obama a new change came to USA on November 4,2008 a new change has come to HJB Mess in new saltshakers,people world over are believing that with Obama recession will be over soon, similarly we can hope the same thing to happen here, the placement stats may improve, best of luck Guys.