Pol science practicals.

SIES college of Arts, Science and Commerce, invites all its students to the felicitation function of some physicist dude (who might someday become the president). Sankaracharya, of all people, is present. Every single one of the students is asked to write a report on it, which will be forwarded to the department head. A seemingly innocent gesture on the part of the college to give the students some exposure to quality spiritualism. Some cynical people might think of an ulterior motive of filling up the empty auditorium.
Politics revealed naked and in all its ferocity is a terribly thing to take. Everything was a propaganda to counter all the allegations against the Sankaracharya, with words like “people have wronged this man of god” and “he has been to terrible places which I cannot even name because of his devotion.” Vajpayee and Advani were named as being instrumental in procuring Sankaracharya’s release from the “terrible place” and the entire mess.
The entire scheme backfired royally. Most of the students were busy with their mobile phones, listening to the radio, or playing on them, and not taking in a word of all the pseudo-religious and half-masked political discourses on stage, and those who did hear, understood what was going on in its entirety, and were sitting through it with a slightly disgusted air. Not a single student in the auditorium was brainwashed – and this more than anything else makes me confident of the fact that we are headed towards a better country.