One thing i felt this blog was incomplete without was a few (tweeny-meeny, i assure you!) details of my college.. NIT Tiruchirappalli.. at least i think thats the spelling.. or are there two "ch" s and only one 'p'.. or two of both? anyway.. i wouldnt mind calling it Trichy (though i daresay a few noble guardians of our Tamil pride presitge and honour will feel quite revolted to think that such a noble and iconic name has been reduced to something quite practical and pronouncable).. i daresay it would suffice for the time being to leave the name aside and delve into deeper and more interesting things.
the first notion i had of college.. for i had never actaully SEEN one before i had entered this.. was of sprawling grounds.. forests (okay.. thickets) here and there.. gardens.. well a sort of a well maintained though not as posh and grand, palace. okay, the college impressed me.. the hostels were huge.. but then.. i was quite mistaken about the gardens.. there were ferns here and there.. there were ponds (i mean, they appeared when ever it rained) and artistically arranged grasses (lots and lots of it here and there..some untended to for ages.. well why cant we have modern art in gardening too!).. oh and trees.. i do remember seeing one.. or was it two?
the second.. and this a bit more realistic.. notion was of the library.. it had to be a/c.. (come on! this was a national institution!) and i imagined, book-mad as i am, poring over piles and piles of christies and ludlums and wonderful new authors who greeted me everytime i walked past them.. and well (sigh) the reality was pretty different.. the only thing nearest to "literary" was.. well.. (blush)..(blush again).. Champak! yes.. that was the only thing there for anything other than academic pursuits (apart from the latest edition of The Week magazine.. the "late"est edition in the shop that they could put their hands on!) i donot read comics.. well.. champak at eighteen does seem odd for anybody.. but not even a decent book to read for leisure? hello? are we on Earth? so there i was.. saying Hi to Kandasamy and Thilagavathy everytime i enetered the portals of the storehouse of academic knowledge.. the college library!
well.. i wont bug you more! (or startle you!), but there was a question that struck me when i was star gazing one night.. one has heard of people cursing their school by calling it a concentration camp.. well then i want to ask them, what is a college? are we humans in a college? or just.. nameless faceless creatures that have two legs.. etc etc.. that walk in and walk out of class rooms at regular fifty minute intervals... what else can explain the fact that noone.. and i mean.. NoOne calls us by name! (sighh) i have become quite used being called by my roll number everytime the teacher takes the roll call.. and there are NO teachers who wish to waste time recollecting your names.. its i there.. "the fellow in the third last bench".. or "Answer your call please.. 003,021,034...") only the inhabitants of gulags were asked to forget their names!
but then, i guess its sooo easy to rave and rant absurdies and absuses at our colleges.. (and we tend to make maximum advantage of that!) that we forget the plus points! PLUS POINTS OF A COLLEGE? well er... er... there are plus points (blush) in a college! but then i guess thats going to be for a later date!
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ah.. ours has an ac too (atleast the reading room has.. but no browsing! (sighhhh)
champak?!!!?!oh, for god's sake!!!
however did you survive it?
don't underestimate champak..
champak has amazing stories all abt bunty the rabbit and babloo the bear who teach jacka the greedy jackal who dosen't eat vegetables but eats lot of candies, a lesson
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yea...champak does suck...but i guess not a single college library stocks novels of any kind..its of academic use only na..but its a real amazingly quiet place to catch up on ur sleep!...lol..and guess the profs aint as involved with the students as school teachers are...oh well...life is like this...school ROCKED though!..
aahhh.. good good! ur blogs r weird but how come u stil suck at word racer?!??!?? ;)
btw, i wil NEVER introduce u to tat cousin of mine... never! he's worse than u!!!
err....library, yeah. something of that sort exists in our college too - supposed to be pretty good, too. i've heard. :P
library hours are generally used up to finish painful worksheets. A/C doesn't do any harm either! :P :P
oh, and our campus is BEAUTIFUL!!! :) :) :) :)
actually.....its not dat bad readers....champak is not the only option we hav in the coll library for our fiction starved brains.....well there is TINKLE too.....really awesome rght lol guffaw!!!
im just plain surprised they can call it a library even...
another good one sujay....explicite use of words...a very gud and artistic description of nit grounds..........yes the library is a little bad wen we think of any topic other than acads...the first para is very humorous...and then the profs knowing us only by our roll nos is also very true ...but u need to keep ice like me to be remembered by profs my friend....great work.....
well i was more successful than u in the library.. i found a copy of Arabian Nights Tales in the ARCHI section.
this aint a RAvE Comment ;)
@ nive: thnx.. due to ur persistent efforts, ive started blogging again :):)
@akhil: it neednt be a rave comment, but atleast there's english in my blog :)Lol!
it also contains a 'complete works of William Shakespeare', in the fiction section which happens to span a whole shelf :)... anyway, it's clear you haven't been to too many colleges... wait till your project :)
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