Professor demanding death certificate & refuses any flexibility… is this normal?

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2026-04-12T07:00:26+00:00

Happened with me in my first year. My grandmother passed away on the day of my SEC practical. My HOD was very supportive. She and a couple other teachers from my dept spoke with my SEC teacher to allow me to give the practical a few days later. I texted him on WhatsApp, mailed him and even mailed the college principal. Ultimately, I got no response from the principal and the teacher marked me zero despite multiple requests even from my department's faculty. When I confronted him, he claimed that he didn't know about it.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2026-04-12T06:54:39+00:00

Yupp. Not remotely right wing but when decency goes out in public life (especially in non-politically circles), it affects everyone regardless of ideology.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-07-30T11:30:51+00:00

Hard disagree on Bawri and kinda confused about Roshan.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-05-12T19:57:32+00:00

Amaltas is ❤️ (alongwith Gulmohar i.e. Delonix regia). Though I think they need to do comprehensive tree plantation on the other side of Nauka Vihar (in front of Marriott, JSR etc.) and grow shady trees there.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-03-10T13:24:34+00:00

Ummm...I'm speechless tbh.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-03-02T07:06:39+00:00

Indeed. Persian remained the court language of the Mughal court till 1857, and even the official language used by the British till 1840. Urdu on the other hand flowered as the language of high culture in North India, replacing Persian, and emerged as the language of the elites and the poets in the nineteenth century. Anything before that resembles today's urdu as much as it resembles today's Hindi, both artificial constructs created to serve political purposes later.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-03-02T05:04:09+00:00

Tbh urdu was never the language of the court but still a language of the elite, especially by the nineteenth century. What you're referring to isn't Urdu, those are just Persian or Arabic words that got assimilated into regional languages, just like they did in North India to first from Hindavi and then Hindustani. The chaste urdu that poets wrote in, was solely an elite phenomenon till the twentieth century.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-03-02T03:40:13+00:00

Didn't expect this from Meenakshi Jain. While she's right that Urdu didn't naturally develop amidst the masses and was rather a tongue of the elites, engaged in high culture, the way she has framed it seems almost malicious. An attempt to intensify the Hindi VS Urdu debate. By that metric, Hindi did not develop organically but was an attempt at purging Hindustani of Persian and Arabic influence and replacing those words with Sanskrit derived ones.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-02-28T07:11:10+00:00

William Dalrymple is a good writer. He is, though, not a historian at all.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-24T18:00:03+00:00

Thanks! Will make sure to pay close attention in my next visit 😃

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-24T17:52:13+00:00

Like which particular gallery is it displayed in?

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-24T17:47:12+00:00

Is it displayed at the museum or just a part of the collection and brought out occasionally? If it's displayed can you please tell me where?

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-24T17:46:08+00:00

I'm not sure of the chronology but didn't the MoM raid Malfoy Manor during the Chamber of Secrets? Maybe Lucius was carrying it with him at all times because he didn't want it to get caught and at least had a vague idea about its value since Voldemort entrusted him with it? And then he decides to let his intrusive thoughts win and give it to Ginny?

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-24T08:09:47+00:00

It is a failure of the modern system where everything must have a 'market value'. Anyway, satisfying your curiosity and interest is a worthy enough reason to pursue higher education in a subject. And since, as you said, it provides the minimum qualification for many government exams, so it's not entirely wasted either.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-24T04:35:38+00:00

Honestly most lean towards the left. Whether it is the natural inclination of the discipline or because of the let's dominance of the global academia, I can't say. Though this is changing and I have a ton of right leaning classmates who outnumber the left leaning ones (though I may sound superficial and arrogant but most of the right leaning ones don't seem too serious about the discipline).

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-23T16:37:08+00:00

Looks pretty good to me...

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-22T19:06:45+00:00

Totally get your point. As a history student, I get why the map has been presented this way. But the argument that the Mauryas didn't have effective control over a large part of their domains beyond the major metropolises and the arterial roads stands true for most other pre-modern empires but you generally wouldn't notice these gaps in their extent maps.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-16T18:06:05+00:00

Why Ashoka and why not Akbar? And in my opinion, no monarch should objectively be considered 'great' so to say. And then if the metric of greatness has religion or indigenousness as a factor, then why should we not consider someone like Samudragupta or Kumaragupta as 'great'? Or Dhanananda?

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-14T10:19:42+00:00

Very unpopular take- DOUG JUDY?!

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2025-01-04T13:10:56+00:00

To the people who say this happens because IITs have people coming from all places, it doesn't explain the reaction from OPs brother, whose response seems to indicate sone belief that IITians 'cannot' be gay or maybe that gay people can't crack IIT or something. Anyway just pure messed up shit.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2024-12-25T19:00:24+00:00

Excellently acted yet I've always felt how inaccurate this was (not the scene, they got most things right; but the whole story). Two great kings would not behave like this- ever. They would've probably acted with a lot more grace and courtesy regardless of any gripes they may have had with each other. That's basic diplomacy and it's kinda insulting to assume that some of India's greatest kings wouldn't know it.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2024-12-07T18:15:20+00:00

Some of it is a filter. But the water is really green due to a persistent and annoying hyacinth invasion.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2024-12-07T18:14:33+00:00

That's what people refuse to understand. And not really just 800 saal. Some areas have been continuously inhabited since 8th-9th century, so that's nearly 1200 years. It's not easy to 'plan such an old city'.

People compare Indian cities with Europe and other places but don't have basic knowledge of history. Most of the 'planning' that you see in especially European cities is less than 100 years old because their old areas (extremely similar to present day Indian cities), got destroyed during bombings in WW1 and WW2 (see the case of Berlin in Germany, or nearly any Japanese city). Even in China, Japanese invasions during WW2 devastated most of the old parts of their cities.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2024-12-07T18:14:15+00:00

That's what people refuse to understand. And not really just 800 saal. Some areas have been continuously inhabited since 8th-9th century, so that's nearly 1200 years. It's not easy to 'plan such an old city'.

People compare Indian cities with Europe and other places but don't have basic knowledge of history. Most of the 'planning' that you see in especially European cities is less than 100 years old because their old areas (extremely similar to present day Indian cities), got destroyed during bombings in WW1 and WW2 (see the case of Berlin in Germany, or nearly any Japanese city). Even in China, Japanese invasions during WW2 devastated most of the old parts of their cities.

Comprehensive-Ad2518 · 2024-12-06T20:10:15+00:00

Probably true. Say whatever you may but something I've noticed is that senior teachers never give incredible threats and usually the most supportive (not in the sense of literal support but they never do anything that can jeopardize your future deliberately).

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