A short intro to my situation... This was the first time that I was away, left alone some 1000 kms away from a familiar place. To add up to the sorrows, there was no previously-encountered soul (except one, JUST one in 10000) in this 2200 acre campus which was densely filled with people speaking a never-foreseen tongue (ya, Bengali), predominantly....
But, yes I arrived here and got to business soon....
My hostel called LBS "officially- Lal Bahadur Shashtri Hall of Residences" is the latest inclusion in the elite group of hostels in IITKGP (some 21 of them).
Well we live in the newest hall of the oldest IIT in India.... //some irony here.
This hall constructed adjacent to the oldest hall complex (PAN Loop) of the campus is the largest hall in the college.... // pride++
This hall has enough space to shelter all male first-years and some seniors. This fact can also be quoted as the only place in KGP, where seniors are in a minority...
The hall comprises of galleries filled with aspiring footballers and cricketers, a 2-floor mess (no comments on this, sorry), 2 breeding pools for mosquitoes (water storage tanks for fire-fighting purposes), 2 parking lots, 2 playing grounds, and lots and lots of interesting people residing in 5 floors of the hall....
.
The hall can be designated as a UNESCO World Cultural Hotspot (surely, I'm not joking....).
The hall is filled with people from every nook and corner of this diverse country and the hall enjoys some international exposure as well....
Although the majority belongs to the immensely JEE-trained personnel of some coaching centres in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, there is a vast proportion of people from Bengali speaking provinces as well....
Then we have the Delhiites (easy to identify), Punjabis (very easy to identify), Gujaratis (with loads of Gujarati food to sustain them in case of a famine), UP guys (with a characteristic Hindi tone), Tamil people, Rajasthanis, Maharashtrians and whatever corner I left out are also included....
This 'MINI INDIA' model of a hostel is actually the fact which everyone craves for...
The feel of learning a new language, of making new and talented friends, of discovering each aspect of hostel life with those friends is sublime....
.
It actually can't get better than this.... Multi-cultural, Multi-traditional, Multi-talented people all bundled up together to form a magnificent collage of IIT....
..
This is what an IIT is,actually, all about...
Bringing Indians together in a perfect environment of education and let that interaction improve each and every element of this system....
.
Perfect...
We are all brothers... we are all IITians.... we are all, truly, Indians.... :)
/* The truth has been spoken */
#LBS_ka_tempo_high_hai #ProudIndian
But, yes I arrived here and got to business soon....
My hostel called LBS "officially- Lal Bahadur Shashtri Hall of Residences" is the latest inclusion in the elite group of hostels in IITKGP (some 21 of them).
Well we live in the newest hall of the oldest IIT in India.... //some irony here.
This hall constructed adjacent to the oldest hall complex (PAN Loop) of the campus is the largest hall in the college.... // pride++
This hall has enough space to shelter all male first-years and some seniors. This fact can also be quoted as the only place in KGP, where seniors are in a minority...
The hall comprises of galleries filled with aspiring footballers and cricketers, a 2-floor mess (no comments on this, sorry), 2 breeding pools for mosquitoes (water storage tanks for fire-fighting purposes), 2 parking lots, 2 playing grounds, and lots and lots of interesting people residing in 5 floors of the hall....
.
The hall can be designated as a UNESCO World Cultural Hotspot (surely, I'm not joking....).
The hall is filled with people from every nook and corner of this diverse country and the hall enjoys some international exposure as well....
Although the majority belongs to the immensely JEE-trained personnel of some coaching centres in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, there is a vast proportion of people from Bengali speaking provinces as well....
Then we have the Delhiites (easy to identify), Punjabis (very easy to identify), Gujaratis (with loads of Gujarati food to sustain them in case of a famine), UP guys (with a characteristic Hindi tone), Tamil people, Rajasthanis, Maharashtrians and whatever corner I left out are also included....
This 'MINI INDIA' model of a hostel is actually the fact which everyone craves for...
The feel of learning a new language, of making new and talented friends, of discovering each aspect of hostel life with those friends is sublime....
.
It actually can't get better than this.... Multi-cultural, Multi-traditional, Multi-talented people all bundled up together to form a magnificent collage of IIT....
..
This is what an IIT is,actually, all about...
Bringing Indians together in a perfect environment of education and let that interaction improve each and every element of this system....
.
Perfect...
We are all brothers... we are all IITians.... we are all, truly, Indians.... :)
/* The truth has been spoken */
#LBS_ka_tempo_high_hai #ProudIndian
Nice to see you blogging Vaibhav.I came here via your codechef profile.It's really nice to see that you're doing really well on codechef.Wish you a good luck in future.
ReplyDeletePS-if you are wandering who i am.I am Prateek Agarwal(your fellow batchmate @Target Jhansi)..remember those good old days?