Amchi Mumbai!

Here i was in IIT Powai, the best institute to study in India. I entered through the gate and asked for the hostels. I finally reached one of the hostels and not to my surprise i was asked to move to another hostel because of unavailability of space so to the next hostel and finally i get a space. Here i walk the long corridors to reach to my room which was in the last corridor after which started the vegetation.  I reached my room and opened it, and their lay two beautifully mummified lizards on the bed looking so real as have been crafted by a master craftsman. Shocked as i was i made some room for me and kept my luggage. Finally my friend arrived and we arranged the room so as to make it livable for the next two to three days. Then we moved out in search of food, like scavengers we were ready to munch on anything we could lay our hand on. We went to one mess only to find that breakfast time had just got over, but to our relief we could find some maggi and a cup of tea at the tea stall outside the mess. Then we moved around the campus with one of the guy who was aware of the campus and studies their itself. The campus is surely a large one not as big as IIT Kanpur but it surely is big and then their are two corridors joining all the departments housed in the campus. You can move from department to another through this corridors. The terrain of the campus is quite undulated. The main building sits on an hill and down the hill are located the hostels and the ground. The most astonishing thing i realized was the starking difference in speed of life as you crossed the gates, the life outside the gates of the campus runs at speed of light. Its as if people here have roller skates on their legs and not shoes, everyone is running from the working class to the BMW's. People have so much to do in so little time that every one is running. Then we went to the Hiranandani complex just opposite to the campus and here you feel as if you have came to another country. For a small city guy like me to see all this tall towers and so many of them together was really a surprise. Till the sight went only tall towers ruled the sky and they are gorgeous one of a kind architecture. This was surely the location where you would like to own a flat. Great locality and great view. I would recommend that those people who have any doubt about the wealth in India should at least visit this place once and lay down their doubts for once and forever. Return to campus and the speed of the life just cools down. Second morning and we got up early to have breakfast, we had determined that we will eat something this time for sure and went to mess to find that breakfast timing hadn't started and we were early so back to room and wait begins. Back to mess only to find a long queue of people already waiting for food. This food thing has stuck in my mind as it was not as hard to get food in Powai as anywhere else. Well but like all good things have a flip side this might be it. Finally our test and interviews get over and off we go. (Actually the real adventure is remaining but i have kept it for next post)