Another campus lingo- Graph Drawing

Another campus lingo- “Graph drawing”! Some of us may recall that I introduced the word- “Nadigiri”- the Silver Jubilian Slang in one of my earlier posts. Now I would like to introduce another word-“Graph Drawing”- which is forever slang of Agriculture college, Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh. This time, I am not directly associated with that college, except that it is an indirect association through one of my classmates at IRMA, who studied there. Graph drawing as per our childhood knowledge means picking up a multi-lined green/red/grey colour paper with miniscule cells and connecting the dots placed as per the X-axis and Y-axis and their respective legends. This connecting the dots could be through lines or bars. And it was great fun for all of us. Slowly technology replaced the word graph with charts and now we have all options including 3-D and web/spider charts/graphs. But the Bapatla college’s “Graph” does not have anything to do with any of the the above. So what’s it about? Normally whenever three or four students or mixture of lecturers and students of a college campus meet, whether day scholars or hostellers, seniors or juniors, apart from discussing ideas, they also discuss places and people. While the conversation is going on, it may so happen that the places or persons mentioned by one person may be familiar to one or more of the participants. Then these person mention in an excited manner that “I very well know this person/place and he/she/it is very close to me”. This may be done to impress the other person or just to boast. According to Bapatla college students, this type of “line maroing” or a type of relationship building is the “Graph drawing”! Did you say- Sounds simplistic? Of course not- its quite funny just like the campus life!