My Impromptu Interview

Tonight is definitely an interesting night. This afternoon, Rahul and I were thinking about ways to better the blog, and content for the future. Out of the blue, it hit me that we could do an interview with Parag Shah and everyone else involved in FLAME. So I went and asked. Neither Rahul nor I had anything ready for an Interview, and we decided that we would think up of content tomorrow morning, and get the best questions together to ask. We just didn't expect Mr. Parag Shah to get back to us so quickly.

To our surprise, he got back to us less an hour ago, and stated that he'd answer anything we had and arrange for interviews with anyone on Staff and Faculty. I, personally, had nothing to ask. The first thing that came to my head was mobile phones, because someone was talking to me about them on MSN. So I asked him that, and he told me that most of these things would be covered in the Student Manual that we'll all receive on the 16th of September, and that it's almost complete. He did tell me that we are allowed to use and answer our phones anywhere except in class and during official ceremonies.

The next thing I asked was about open office hours, in which we could visit Faculty members to discuss anything. We will apparently be having those, and the Management will have an open dinner with us every month. He surprised me even further by saying that his office was open at any time for us.

My next question was about joint activities involving UG and PG. He said that there would be two theater productions that would be a joint activity, as well as a theater festival. These are foundation activities. He also told me that we'd be divided into houses, and there would be intra-house competitions, quizzes, and other things planned for us. The houses right now are named very generic names like Red, Green, etc because they thought it would be better for us to evolve the house names ourselves, and leave our mark on FLAME. He also told me that there would be a 10 Film Retrospective and a Film Appreciation course. So we'll have a lot of activities together, and a lot more separately.

The last thing I found out, which should be of interest to some of you, is that the Student Council will be comprised of both UG students and PG students. Also, the elections will be held on the 3rd Saturday after the Union Dinner, and continue on that way every year. So we won't have to elect our student body from Orkut.


I truly apologize if I got nothing of interest through my questions. I was not expecting him to get back to us this quickly, and we plan on having a much more formal interview sometime soon. Until then, thanks for reading.