The Dead Couches

By Ifrah Ali Khan

Of all the criticisms that I have gone through by my friends because of restricting myself only to the departmental based issues, here I am kicking again with another one. I strongly believe, when one has much to write on the issues that has been plaqueing my “own department”, then why not go for it.

So, here comes another dead topic (as I know majority will agree to it), comprising of the very strange problem of the department and that is about the bad or I would rather say the worst condition of the couches placed at different corners of the department.

Previously, these couches provided a lot of comfort and ease to the students as well as to the visitors. These fluffy couches were totally in demand. One could never see the couches empty as everybody wanted to comfort themselves on them. As soon as one left the couch, it was suddenly grabbed by the others waiting for their turns to come. Moreover, these couch served as the comforting bed as well as some of the students used them for sleeping purpose. But unfortunately, this was history. Now the situation is quite different. Now the same couches are not alive but dead! They sometimes give you the impression of a ruptured balloon whose air has been sucked out. The fluffy comforters have now turned into the lifeless dis comforters. Today if one wants to punish himself/herself, can do it by throwing oneself into those couches.

Apart from this, there is an interesting fact about these couches. One can find very weird type of iron solids coming out of them. As everything that exists has some function, similarly, the function of these nail type solids is to tear the clothes of the students. This is a very serious problem that some of my friends have faced. They have actually got their clothes and abayas destroyed!

Now what the administration is thinking about? How many more clothes are going to be destroyed by these wild couches? The administration really need to ponder over this problem and should replace these couches with something as soon as possible.