Satyagrah III

This is the third post on this topic, written based on my limited understanding and appreciation of Gandhian philosophy. This time I will give the example of a current day problem prevalent in most of the academic campuses round India. We will try to find a solution to the same following the principle of Satyagrah.

Economy is sluggish, market is down and things are in utterly bad shape. Bad times bring forth the worst in human character! Hence the moral responsibility of the young mass is finding it hard to be up! A common off-shoot of the same in campuses like IITs is found among the final year students. Here, companies come to the campus to recruit students. Lets say you have been selected in a company. Later if a company comes whose salary package is at least 20% higher than the company where you have been placed, then you can appear in the interview of the new company as well. This is allowed once 80% of the students from the branch have been placed. This time companies were few and all wanted to take the brightest few. Lets say Hari is a bright student and have been placed in a company. Given the above situation he has all right to sit for the new company. However when 60% of his batch mates have not been placed, should he sit again and consume one sit? As a matter of fact many do sit. And many others who are sure that they wont be doing job and would rather go for higher studies, are also sitting for the next round. This in my opinion is utterly unethical. Now the question is can we use satyagrah to stop this practice?

Of course while handling this issue the first question that cropped in my mind was is this situation fitting in to the domain of satyagrah? What or which is the 'satya'or truth for which we are displaying 'agrah' or fondness?

I have been thinking on the above question for last two days. But still could not find an answer to it. May be this is not 'satyagrah', rather trying to establish our own vested interest or our own personal idea of morality...!