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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.
            walks often on foot from the place of editing


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                        2K1 MBBS, Trivandrum Medical College                                                                                   2K1 MBBS, Trivandrum Medical College
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