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during second year made sure that I had a rare in east fort to hostel at late night created the
possibility of getting a room. I went across to “Stories of Physiology” and “Sanjeevani”. When
the seniors sitting in the benches opposite to any junior meets occasionally, it is glad to
3rd hostel, and asked if there are any rooms. see that this book written by the trio of back
The familiar seniors told me to select anything benchers to ease the pain of studying for
empty in 3 rd hostel and guided me to avoid exams is still fondly remembered.
certain numbers as they were occupied by As I struggle to add a few closing lines to this
veterans who would never leave the place even article, my daughter is bombarding me with
if you were allotted those rooms. questions...
The bar on the top floor, the friendly veterans, Accha Accha, How did the dinosaurs live?
the left-wing student leaders and volleyball
every evening were the highlights of this I tell Avanthika, I don’t know kiddo. All I know
sleepy place which woke up at night with all is there were a lot of lovely dinosaurs who lived
its fervour when there was a football match. happily in this place and they evolved happily
The spirited camaraderie ever after.
saw that whenever a threat
came to any of its members
it defended fiercely. The
hostel has a single entrance
which has a grill which
can be closed easily, and
the popular story among
its occupants is that an
unfriendly visitor would
have this door closed once
he is inside.
Once Saleem had a tiff with
a stranger over his bike
hitting another rider. The
guy wanted an unreason-
able compensation and
sounded threatening over
the phone. We humbly
invited him to the third
hostel for a settlement,
where he threatened to hit us if he wasn’t paid As 2001 batch gathers to share the life stories
a huge sum. A small whistle to alert and the and to discuss the tectonic shift from eating
entire 3 rd hostel came out. After that, only oily parottos & omelettes with ‘extra’ onion
thing he wanted was to reach his home!. There from thattukada to air fried chicken thighs
were firm believers in pareto principle here laced in avocado oil topped with lemon at the
who had such precision in marking the area shores of Poovar, I end this article, dedicating
in the textbook that made sure that any exam it to late Yunusikka and the 3rd hostelers who
could be cracked if these topics are read a day always prompted the lazy ones to do fruitful
or two ahead of exams. things in life.
Though the enthusiasm of Thomas and Watson
was the main reason, the hostel life aided Disclaimer: The term lazy ones never ever
creation of a student text book in physiology mean Jinu, Thomas, Saleem, Raj or myself at
and student magazine. We really did not know any point of time, and any such inferences are
what the end result would be, however, the long purely imaginary.
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