The Tale of the Reptile

ISB has a rich fauna. You can spot all kinds of animals on campus. Examples include peacocks, snakes of varied variety, mongoose, squirrel and ISBians.

However, at times you tend to spot animals so exotic (apart from ISBians) that there is fear. Fear of the unknown that leads to chaos. Mostly chaos at ISB is expressed through a long chain of mails which are bombarded into your mailbox even if you care a shit about lizards and snakes or any such animals ( they call it spam but i dont agree. Spam can be counted. These mail chains contain more mails than the number of stars in the sky!)

So coming back to the point, some exotic looking lizard family reptile ( donno the exact name ) was spotted in SV 1. Heavens fell down. Chaos. Absolute Chaos. That meant mail chains. Atleast a trillion of them. ( i cant count more than trillion so i ll stop at that). So here are some pearls of wisdom hand picked from these chains. As exotic as the lizard itself--------

" Note its talons, size around 3 ft, it ran with jet speed climbed 3ft wall in a second, it was so fast that had it hit someone, one would have been hurt like anything"---( 3 ft in a second. He had a stopwatch and he was checking the time)

" It was dangerous…. Previously a cobra and now a dangerous reptile, isn’t it time to take a prompt action? Student body I suggest you come forward to get these shrubs cleared"
( Students, lets have a labor day bunk classes and lets clean the shrubs)

" And first things first, the security guard in the SV’s must have strong lathis. Last time a big snake came, their grand plans to kill it were using thin alumunium rods of the mops with which they wipe the floor. Today a guard was running with a 1 feet long rod. I wonder what he would have done to a 3 feet reptile with it." ( Yes sir, a 3 ft thing cant be killed with a 1 ft rod. Mathematically, the length of the rod has to be greater than or equal to the length of the reptile supposed to be killed with it)

"I saw these creatures twice around the rocks in SV1 Am phi theatre (just across the main road). I think they live some where between those rocks" ( How profound! If you could please give us the exact block, quad and room we can go get them)

"Till such time that we get a handle on this, XXX will be posting a trained gunman at SV1,late afternoon onwards." ( Wow a gunman for a lizard--Now thats the sign of prospering India!)

"Why kill?? The reptile is probably as scared as us.
Guess a good option would be to find out about reptile repellants and have them sprayed around the SVs." ( Hmm an animal rights activist was all we needed)

Here is a picture of this latest hero at ISB



And life continues. The reptile has managed to elude the guards till now. But the mail-chain continues---