Remember that protest march I photoblogged a year and a half ago? I gave United Students my email and mobile number, and subsequently never heard about or from them.
Until this week. Suddenly my mobile started getting spammed with SMSs from VR4Nikhita, urging me to go and vote for the United Students candidate, Nikhita Arora, in the Delhi University Students Union elections, and to forward the SMS to three other people.
Joy. I’m not in Delhi, much less Delhi University. In fact, I’ve never been in Delhi University. I can’t vote for the DUSU president. Even if I could, United Students has told me nothing about who Nikhita Arora is, what she plans to do once she becomes president, or why I should vote for her.
In fact, despite having my email address, United Students has never sent me a manifesto or a newsletter or a statement of objectives in the past eighteen months. The only time they remembered I existed was at the elections. Sound familiar?
Those who decide to change the system from within are condemned to have the system change them.
दुःख में सुमिरन सब करें, सुख में करें न कोई
जे सुख में सुमिरन करें दुःख काहें को होय
You are right. You should have got more background information from us, but it seems that while your mobile was available to us your email was not.
If you can share with us your email again, we can forward you our manifesto.
Apologies also, becasue it seems you are not in DU and though we can’t understand how we have your number in the database in that case it could be because of your interest in the earlier protests.
Either way, thank you for pointing this out and I reaffirm that we do not see ourselves as the title you have accorded us [ ‘typical bloody politicians’ ]and we will do everything possible to not sound or look like that in future.