Click to play videoBangalore: Delhi is not just the hotbed of national powerplay, but also student politics. But for the students of Bangalore, politics is an alien concept with career taking precedence over campus powerplay.
With information technology, biotechnology, management and media emerging as hot career options and fast bucks luring college students, there's little time for political pursuits.
And for that matter, students like Shruti Patel represent a generation that works long hours, at college and outside, leaving them too fatigued to engage with politics.
"I think politics does play a very important role in our lives, I mean it is a very integral part. So I feel politics should enter the campus, Bangalore, its not focused much states like Kerala but I think we should be aware,” says Shruti who is a BBM student at Mahaveer Jain College.
“Students know what is happening in politics, they do know what is the system behind, yes but than they don't have liking for the subject, because they dislike the people who are working for that system,” says Principal, Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College, Dinesh Nilkant.
And that probably explains why most students and colleges channelise their energies towards other pursuits like social work.
“We don't have a student's union in Christ College, but we have a movement that is started by students. It started in 1999 wherein students have taken up issues mainly social issues. They try and understand these social issues be it of our slums, villages or in and around Bangalore city,” says a student of Christ College, Geetha.
Politics may be the art of the possible but for most college goers in Bangalore, this is one art that they feel they can do without.
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