Protest over hostel mess food raises storm

At the hallowed portals of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, one is capable of quite a lot of things, and I don't mean this in just a geeky kind of way. One student's grievance over the quality of food provided by his hostel mess led to a revolution there.
According to the leader, Pradeep Kanade, something was different about the mess food since the beginning of the semester. The dal(lentils) contained a proportionate amount of water and pulses. The rotis were perfectly baked, and were embellished with dollops of ghee. No excess oil was to be found in any of the curries, and the spices were just right. "This was the last straw. There wasn't even a single insect to be found in any grain of rice. This was completely unacceptable to me." Several hours were spent in diligently scouring the mess kitchens, but this was in vain as there was no trace of any cockroach or rat anywhere.
"It would be a cold day in hell before I would ever consider relishing food like gulab jamun and mutter paneer. I missed the good old days when we would find at least five worms in every plate."
Pradeep was not going to take this injustice lying down. His impassioned mails to his hostel mates caught their imagination. An agitation was raised in the hostel lounge, with the entire student council willing to resign for the sake of the cause. Another student Ajay Singh reflected on the eventful three days with indignation, "What did we do to deserve milk that doesn't taste like puke? And unburnt scrambled eggs? Eww!". The hostel lounge was vandalized, along with the smashing of the TV and equipment of the gymnasium. Their efforts didn't go in vain, as the warden of the hostel finally acceded to their demands.
The warden, a professor of the Humanities department explained that the developments were part of an experiment that had been on the sly for the last three years. "The students had been heavily conditioned to portions of stale and uncooked vegetables in the mess. I never thought it was possible for one to completely lose taste in nutritious, clean and healthy food. But the results are absolutely startling, and the implications of this are far-reaching."
Pradeep signs off with this message,"What we achieved was merely a drop in the ocean. We hope to inspire the students in other hostels too to replicate this success."