A section of the media is propagating a myth that the continuing strike will cause huge disruption to the academic schedule of the students. This is totally false. I wish to clarify that FTII is not an academic institute like say the IIMs/IITs. In FTII the courses are so unstructured and unplanned (3 years course tend to finish in 6 years, and this is happening for years before Chauhan’s entry). This leaves the students with loads of free time to indulge in innumerable protests. As the say “An Idle Mind is a Devil’s workshop”- what the bulk of protesting students do is smoke and drink under the precincts of the wisdom tree and fritter away their time while motivated media reportage creates an impression that the students are worried about the dismal state of affairs in FTII.