The "Random" Theory...!!!

Meet Random Student. Up until last week, he lead a happy life, much like yours or mine; he'd wake up in the morning, attend college, hang out with friends and beat up people weaker than him. But these once happy eyes have no spark and laughter in them anymore. Random Student is one of only thousands of students across the city of hyderabad who have been affected by the mysterious disease that doctors are now calling "The Project Menace". Random Student says he isn't sure, but he thinks he contracted it at college, where he was attending class like on any other day when the professor suddenly injected all the students with this life-threatening disease. "The students in front of me all started crying loudly and wetting their trousers but I didn't understand why. I couldn't have known then, the fate that awaited us."

The Project Menace has affected the lives of many students. Common symptoms include being hunched at a computer, copy pasting information from the Internet into a Word document, gouging fellow student's internal organs out with their fingernails, falling to the floor with their mouth foaming and loss of bladder control.

Just yesterday The Project Menace claimed another victim as a student ran naked down the street, screeching his lungs out. This is not a witty turn of phrase, his lungs were in fact ejected from his body at the velocity of a mid-sized hurricane...

While there is no cure for this menace, students are turning their anger and frustration towards Bill Gates, head of Microsoft, for inventing Microsoft Powerpoint, which is commonly used by professors to inject The Project Menace into unsuspecting students.

Cure or no cure, one thing is for certain. For the hapless students of Hyderabad, time, sanity and levels of patience are running out.

S.K. Chaitanya, BBC News,Hyderabad.