Stephen’s Girls don’t Flush
on July 13, 2009
Theme: Delhi : hostel : India : St. Stephen's : toilet : womenKartikey Sehgal
St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
St. Stephen’s (Delhi) contribution to India is commendable. It has given Her bright students and more importantly, girls who like to drive their father’s car. In fact, it is believed that Stephen’s girls have never stepped on a road.
My friend and I ventured into the empty Stephen’s college—sans people but with green gardens, healthy flowers and neat pathways and corridors. The buildings don’t have a name. You’ll have to ask around if you want to visit the library or the principal’s office. No big banners or signs here.
We discovered the library and were told that namelessness was a plan to compel the students to talk and discover the campus. “Just like you asked around to reach the library. You had to talk to people”.
The library’s furniture is not modern. “We didn’t want to have modern-day furniture. It is tradition”, a library staff member told me.
The highlight of our visit was our visit to the girls’ hostel. It is forbidden to enter their space. Even when they are not there to present a potential threat to your life. We didn’t know this. Until a lady attendant turned hysterical at our sight and the hostel guard—a man—asked the heavens how we managed to slip past him. Then he turned polite and told us to not enter the girls’ hostel because, “It is girls’ hostel. Hope you don’t mind”.
But while we were there, we saw the rooms and agreed that they were small. I imagined that women fought here due to claustrophobia; not that they don’t fight in open spaces.
And behold. The myth about women being cleaner than men was dispelled when we discovered this:
Truth about Stephen’s Girls
This information was found pasted on the hostel toilet door. Let us write the six commandments clearly, so you don’t have any doubts about the toilet habit of Stephen’s girls. Dirty husbands rejoice.
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1) Flush every time you use the toilet. 2) If there is no water in the loo, get your bucket and put water. 3) Don’t block the bathing cubicles for more than 10 minutes. Some of us are unfortunate to have 8:40 everyday. 4) Don’t put toilet paper or sanitary pads in the commode. 5) Wrap your pads and dump them in the dustbin. 6) DAY SCHOLARS, this is not a public toilet for your business, use the college loos and not residence [Get someone to put water facilities in those loos & we will elitist/use will elitist (unclear)] aj
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What we learn from this list:
1) Stephen’s girls don’t flush.
2) There is no water in the loo. Proves point 1.
Also, either there are no buckets in Stephen’s or girls are lazy.
Further proves point 1.
3) They take more than 10 minutes to bathe. But there is no water in the loos!
So Stephen’s girls don’t take a bath.
4) and 5) No comments. No wait. No. 4 actually proves that there is no water in the loos; only toilet paper. So point 3 is now assured. No.5 tells us that Stephen’s girls don’t know how to wrap pads or don’t dump them in the dustbin. Possibly, there is no dustbin in Stephen’s.
6) Note: Day Scholars refers to girls who didn’t drink the night before and suffer no hangover in the day. A rare phenomenon. Hence they are called Day Scholars.
We further learn that Stephen’s girls do some business in the loos.
They call their hostel “residence”; as my relative would exclaim in moments of spiritual ecstasy, “Lol”.
Exploring Stephen’s through photographs:
Either that’s the name of somebody or it describes the students here. Or both.
Much of the social life of Stephen’s boys means progressing from giving the white flower to girls to giving the red flower. The red flower is generally accompanied by a car and at least three credit cards but the nicer girls would settle for a furnished three bedroom flat if you are nice to them and buy them Gucci.
The chapel. It is undergoing major repairs due to massive confession from students.
The Library: This is how the tables were in 1881, when the college was established. Students can be found here when they are not confessing in the chapel.
Eminent Stephanians: The college likes to admit its mistakes.
The Girls’ Hostel Corridor: Has seen many a blood-bath which works well because there is not enough water to bathe.
P.S: According to a senior member of St. Stephen’s,
“…if St Stephen’s sets up a co-educational hostel, it would have to set up maternity wards as well.” (source)
Dirty loos, no bath and they want to make babies.
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dude, u haven’t seen the loo notices in jnu. if u found this so amusing that ur still obviously rolling on the floor, you might just die of a heart attack when u see the ones at jnu. and according to my stephen’s friends, their rooms there were bigger than the ones they have here!
.-= Ranjana´s last blog ..Varkala =-.
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Cool…great buddy…U have some guts
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well, you might not have talked to the girls living in the pgs in kamla nagar. The rooms are big and well, we really can’t help it, if you are too used to living in the lap of luxury.
As far as the library is concerned-what makes it are the books. Who the hell cares how old the furniture is as long as you can read?
Anyway, it’s the same story everywhere.
As to you wondering who Allnutt is-
Samuel Scott Allnutt was the founder and the first principal of the college. So there are two blocks named after him- Allnutt North and Allnutt south.
(You can find all these details on the college website-
http://www.ststephens.edu/archives.htm)
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it seems you have a personal agenda against the college..maybe cause u didnt get in?
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