More than 43 years after graduating from TIET (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala - now Thapar University), I have enough
fresh memories to write volumes together.
Serious classroom studies would have been very dull if the
frontbenchers like me did not occasionally choose to occupy the last
rows – to slip
out from the class through backdoor to have a quick game of TT and sneak
back
quietly! Tea used to be our favorite drink right from the beautiful
Cafeteria
opposite the main college building to Vinod's Engineering Students
Canteen
opposite our hostels. Yes, if we were studying overtime (as members of
the Owl
Club), walking to PRTC workshop in Model Town to have a late night /
early
morning cup of tea was a routine adventure.
It is just not possible to forget the taste of nectar-like water of the
hand pump just outside the main gate of the college campus, spending some
gossiping time at the Lily Pool or having a stroll from the college to hostel
through the Gulmohar Avenue
with Bhoot Bungalow on the way. They used
to call it Hostel E (Bachelor professors’ abode).
Occasional film shows
organized by the Audio Visual Society had Asha Parekh as the permanent heroine,
as she was the favorite of the society President, who was also the warden of
Hostel B. And we also had our learned
professor of Industrial Engineering, who did never face any questions in the
class. The secret I would share with
you. If you have any query and dare to
raise it, fifty percent of the times, you would face the counter question,
“Where were you last time when I explained it in the class?” And if you are lucky enough not to receive
this ball, here is the bouncer reserved for the other fifty percent, “Why are you
trying to fly that fast. I will cover
all that when I come to that stage.”
Sorry folks, though I have not grown old enough to forget
all those names, may be some other time.
Still, there is so much to share.....
