And the only person in J.U. English who would teach something like reading a text in depth and looking closely at all the elements of the text was Shanta Dutta. And she would also bother reading the whole text that way and finishing the whole text with the students. Aishwarya toh bodmaisher bodmaish. Knows nothing and then complains about the people in the department who do the actual work and are true scholars unlike Aishwarya who is a wannabe academic. She can’t even read a text down to its constituent elements and dynamics! It’s like a science exam, if you’re asked about a chain reaction, you have to give every single step of the chain reaction correctly in your exam. Otherwise the equation doesn’t work, similarly the text does not work. Even Sukanta Chaudhuri asks the same kind of questions in his tests. And Sajni Mukjerji was a nice, gentle woman. That’s the only professor from the department I’ve never heard any student complain about in any way. Look at what Grendel did, slyly stepping in, picking up tid bits of her knowledge and then coming in and replacing her and teaching the students children’s literature, that too, the same children’s literature authors Tintin teaches, or should I say reads out in class? And, under the pretext of being Samantak Das’ friend, has him ousted too. Look at how suddenly Samantak Das passed away. I did not even know. I was in disbelief when I found out, still am. This is what happens if you’re Tintin’s friend. I liked Samantak Das and Sukanta Chaudhuri as friends so much better, they had the same intellectual wave-length and were both strong, kind personalities. It made sense that those two were friends. Tintin, Grendel er kachhe gele erom obosthya hoye jaabe kintu. Don’t look at them! Run! And, first Sajni di would sit with Tintin. Then after she retired, Grendel sat in her place! It’s a room of no return now! Anything could happen to you if you go and sit in that room. And then, once in first year college, Supriya di gave us some book to make xeroxes. The book was Sajni di’s. Then by the time the book came back to Supriya di, it had ripped from the spine. Surpiya di gave it to us straight up for the whole lecture after that. She was looking at Soumik straight the whole time. But, Soumik hadn’t taken the book. In fact what happened was, one day that same semester Soumik entered Tintin’s reading session 5 minutes late, Tintin picked up the paperback he was reading out from and hurled it at Soumik! The book flew past the first few benches. Then it smashed against some of the tables, and landed on the floor somewhere! Tintin egulo shekhachhe studentderke! Supriya di was wondering how Sajni di’s book could come back to her coming out at the spine. Well, this is the kind of education Tintin is imparting in class with live demos! Tintin is teaching the students to manhandle their books! That’s where students are learning all this. This is Tintin’s idea of conducting a lecture! Talk about being a professor! Midget kothakar ekta. Hyan, hyan, midget. Puro midget. I haven’t seen any midget professors anywhere else in Jadavpur University. Look at Tintin, look at the clothes he wears, who dresses like that to a lecture room for giving a lecture? And he’s always had this warped look in the eyes. In other cities, if they see a man who looks out of place, the first thing they say is, “He doesn’t even look like a man.” No one ever takes that person seriously. Deepak Mishra’s a midget. He’s from Delhi obviously. What other place will accept a midget? That too, even in Delhi, no women wanted him. No women wanted him in Bangalore either. But in Bangalore, men beat him up with blood pouring out of his skull. Then he was thrown in jail. He was fined Rs. 40,000 by the police. Perv like Tintin, was doing major rubbish. Then his company fired him. Then he fled back home. Kujo’s a midget. Back in school, the big guys would beat up Kujo in school everyday. When Sudipto said that Tintin was thrown in the lake in Cambridge, it was not in jest, that’s how you treat midgets the world over! I jest not, that’s reality. Who lets a midget in? People know from the sight of them that there’s something dicey, and it always turns out to be that. It’s a midget, Tintin! Eeeeewwww. He has a midget-sized brain. He teaches at the nursery level. His IQ is stuck at nursery level only. Even nursery schools will not take in Tintin because he’s nongra dadu. And look at how he presents himself in public. Anyone who presents themselves like that is immediately suspect. So ugly, so ugly.
So, now that Tintin has lowered the standard of the syllabus and teaching standards so much, what is the consequence? The standard of the students also keeps declining the longer Tintin is around. Have you noticed how the standard of the students keeps getting worse and worse the more the years go by, and that this phenomenon started sometime after Tintin started teaching in the department? It wasn’t a thing before Tintin was in the department as a professor. There you have it, the real consequences of what teaching at Tintin’s elementary school level has. If students are taught that everything in university is meant to be fun, then they will not bother studying seriously, they will not study the texts that are serious, the texts they need to study. Tintin da toh bolechhe. Tintin da toh shib jaane taane. That is what the students think. Now if students are not taught what they are meant to be taught at the university level, they’re standard ends up pathetic. They get bad grades, as a consequence. They learn nothing. Then when they apply for jobs, they miss out on all the good jobs and are lucky if they get even something very basic. If you teach students at the level of nursery, their standard remains at the level of nursery and they are rendered unemployable. Where else do you read out popular fiction to students, when they are in grade school, kids, right? Not any later! Definitely not post the age of 10 at worst. People keep wondering how the department turned into a wasteland. Tintin is the answer. This hasn’t happened in any other department of Jadavpur University. It’s only the English department that has seen a steady fall in the standard of students. And Tintin has to be everywhere. He’ll be in the department at 10 a.m. He’ll be on campus at 10 p.m. He’ll be at all the departmental get togethers. He’ll be at all the parties with students where he isn’t supposed to be, in the first place. He will always be at the ledge. He’s in Victorian, he’s in Modernism, he’s in Romanticism, since he won’t be allowed in the music course by Ananda Lal, he’ll try teaching ‘The Wall’ himself and teach nothing. Everything in ‘The Wall’ was straight out of Paromita di’s lectures. She taught us about the vagina dentata. Tintin taught nothing, which is his idea of teaching. He’s ubiquitous or something. Everywhere, all the time, he’s there. The really high standard things like the ancient Greek and Roman period or Renaissance, he doesn’t touch, because he doesn’t have the standard to even fake it out there, because there are no fun texts he can bring in. Look at how much he’s watered down the standard of the general syllabus by introducing his fun texts, and then not teaching them, but reading them out. If you trick students into thinking that they can get away with only the “fun” texts, they’ll study only that and fare very poorly on the job market, because students from other English departments will have very high standards by comparison and J.U. English students will not be able to compete. Have you noticed that students who cannot conduct themselves anywhere like Aishwarya Iyer entered the English department after Tintin joined? When Tintin joined, seniors were immediately sceptical of him. Obviously. Take one good look at him and that’s all you need. I first noticed the decline in standard with M.A. batch students I studied with. All of a sudden, there was a fall in grades, in writing standards, in the texts people were reading, how much they were reading, how much they were scoring, what opportunities people were getting, and there was major discontent amongst everyone in the batch, and people were very vocal about that and that’s a very good thing because that’s how you can figure out what’s going wrong. They couldn’t figure out the source of the problem and attributed everything to all the wrong professors who were doing a good job and saving everyone’s back. That’s how Pisces camouflages themselves, you’ll never know it’s them, you’ll always think it’s someone else, they’ll make you think it’s the innocent people doing an honest to goodness job. And why would those students think all the good professors were a problem? Because Tintin fooled them all into thinking that something so much lower than the required standard is acceptable, which is all lies. You can’t get anywhere with lower standards. Same thing Aishwarya did, just because she is weak in something, she tries making the professor look bad, when it was her who was not up to the mark in the course. The good thing about the M.A. students I studied with is that when you give them the logic of what’s going on, they understand which people were the real problem, and still are the real problem. I mean, people in this batch were not being able to function when placed in something with a proper standard, because they got used to low standards, they were not able to pick up any high standard things later because there were glaring gaps in their seminal learning due to Tintin. I remember, someone goes off somehwhere to do a Ph.D., could not even function or hold herself together! Sheesh! Walking train wreck. Yes, it really was that bad. And after a few more batches, the standard was pathetic. Can’t function, can’t figure out anything, don’t know anything, always anxious, spending time in frivolous pursuits instead of studying what they need to. And after I passed out, it was so bad that hard core students were opting for other colleges in Kolkata instead. They said Jadavpur English was not good anymore. Were they wrong? A nursery text, Lewis Carroll is what is a core course text. There are courses on Literature and Censorship and Marquis de Sade is taught in Tintin’s course, Literatures of the French Revolution, I think. Aishwarya Iyer opted for that course, I think. The whole Victorian course is popular fiction with two professors teaching the same texts. The Modernism course is not even taught, it’s just left to the students to figure out. The standard of the students keeps falling drastically over the years. Not to mention, Santanu Biswas has his whole group of minions who are out to do his business for him. Which hard-core person will come and study I such a place? Who will want to come? This hasn’t happened to any other English department anywhere, or any other J.U. department. There’s only one way, Tintin, Grendel and Santanu Biswas have to be ignored and skirted, the students need to go to other professors and request them to teach topics that they know nothing about, study hard on the internet, get a list of all the books that need to be read from the good professors, because otherwise students passing out now will have no future, they’ll be doomed by Tintin, Grendel and Santanu Biswas’ traps. Pretty soon you’ll have vacant seats that no one will want to fill if things continue as they are right now. The good professors need to step in and teach students the things they don’t know and have not been covered. See what happens when one Mihir Bhattacharya steps in as a bad hire? One is all it takes. It’s the kind of blooper that only Pisces can manage. I don’t know why Tarak Nath Sen is given so much credit. There were so many other great scholars in English over the years. None of them made this kind of error. Why should Tarak Nath Sen be excused? He’s responsible for the current state of the department. This hasn’t happened in any other department in J.U., in any English department elsewhere, in any department anywhere, it’s just J.U. English! And the one behind the whole disaster zone is Tarak Nath Sen. He just told students at Calcutta University at the time that they were starting a new English department and they could come and join as professors. No one was evaluated. This is what happens when you don’t evaluate people before taking them on. And poor Malini Bhattacharya fell into that trap. How would she know that someone hired was like that? You’d expect the person to be good since he was taken on by none other than Tarak Nath Sen. Look at what happened to her life. She was fantastic, goddess. Even I remember I once went to KMR, and there they were talking so highly of Malini di. She was so high up in everything. Look at what happened. And all because of stupid Tarak Nath Sen, stupid pig! There’s a reason why Orwell and Roger Waters make such a big deal out of pigs!