“Zombie” is derived from the word "zonbi," who is a person believed to have died and been brought back to life without “speech” and “freewill.” (wikipedia).
And, the IIM Ahmedabad campus has just been invaded by 78 Zombies. What else can you call normal people (till they joined the PGPX-3 batch) who do not get to sleep day-in-and-day-out. Their freedom-of-speech is limited to cases and assignments, and they can express their free-will (read: do something other than coursework) only during lunch hours, when they get to talk about something other than academics, and while taking a shower (though the rumor is that zombies may soon give up this non-value adding activity to free up some time for handling assignments!)
These zombies usually hunt in groups of six or seven, live in their caves called “syndicates,” move around with spiral binders/books/laptops, and can be found sipping coffee at crazy hours.
Zombies are ruled by a species called “Profs.” A Prof is someone who through his years of practice (of possibly sorcery and voodoo) has mastered the art of using “dangerous” weapons such as “assignments,” “cases,” “prep reading” and “quizzes” (the last weapon belongs to the “mass-destruction” category). They can use these weapons to make zombies behave in a “controlled fashion” for one year to ensure that most become zombies for life.
Zombies comply with Profs’ demands (not that they have a choice), because they hope that if they can behave in a “controlled fashion" till February 09 and learn some tricks-of-the-trade from Profs, they will be adopted by another species which will help them achieve “nirvana.”
