“You know Gulabo, I passed out five years ago, but still I don’t ever want to leave college,” says DJ aka Daljeet (Aamir Khan), to Sue (Alice Patten), in the film Rang De Basanti (2006). The context of the scene is DJ talking about the carefree life inside a college campus and the harsh reality outside it. Well, many like DJ pass out of college, and still stick around. Students across India overstay in their hostel rooms and dorms, but we met a DJ who stayed for months at a hostel in IIT Bombay, an institute he didn’t attend.
You have heard of dine-and-dash, which is relatively easy to pull off compared to staying put for four months illegally, that too inside one of India’s premier…