The Hostel Life

· Our Prefect, i.e. the student incharge of hostel was our senior Mr Kharvate of final year Mechanical Engineering and warden was Dr Telang Superintendent of of work shop. The Principal of collage was Dr V.V. Saravate a legendry acadamacian in technical education of Madhya Pradesh later on he retired as Director of technical education at Bhopal. His son Ashok Sarvate was also student of final year Mechanical Engineering and frequent visitor to our hostel. Astonishingly I am able to member my roll number in the first year class and it was 11.
Breakfast was not served in the mess there was electricity in the hostel but no ceiling fans. We had to use table fans. For preparation of tea the electric heaters were used. Jagdishan was egatarian we used to object about disposal of the egg wastes to him initially which he took care off and avoided boiling eggs in the room. Bread, cream rolls biscuits were the eatable delivered to us in the hostel by a regular cycle hawker.
There was small canteen across the highway near Aurvedic collage called Mani canteen run by some Bihari Gentleman called Maniram The batatawada of that canteen was very tasty and believe me it cost just 20 paisa a vada and tea was just 25 paisa, but to take taste of this wada we had to walk down for more than a kilometer and it was worth. Continued in next blog.