"JEC, which engineering college is this?" My father looked at me with a combined expression of bewilderment and annoyance. I swallowed hard before I could reply to him. There is a solid reason behind it. My father grew up in a rural background and after very hard work he had secured a job in the revenue department of the state. He had lived a very disciplined life and he was strict & unyielding in matters pertaining to studies. There was little or no scope of softness in them unless backed up by solid reasoning. It was one of those delicate