manipal & me....(1)

Manipal & me.....

The society around us is made with the people we live with, meet, and interact in our day to day life. In manipal the people I live with is my friends, and roommates, but in other shade competitors. We go to the same collage, study the same curriculum, and participate in common events. We are pitted against each other every now and then; we are competitors in collage and friends outside its walls. This unique behaviour among us, is one reason that the life in manipal is so dynamic, spontaneous, and never stagnant. Everyone of us know each other’s strength and weaknesses still we never use it to our own advantage, manipal has for the first time provided me with the taste of “share and live” concept in my social life, and has made me more open and free towards life. Here we share our joys and sorrows among each other and seek solace in each other’s support. It is amazing to think that the persons whom I never knew some 7 months back have suddenly become so integral part of our daily lives, that actually we miss their presence when we go back to our hometowns where we have grown up among friends and families. The emotional bonding between persons and the creation of trust is the soul of the life in manipal. I don’t know if in manipal one finds friends for life or not, but they do definitely find unforgettable friends.

Manipal is like any other towns in India, but the speciality about manipal is not its amenities, but for whom the amenities are created. In manipal, every supply is reciprocative to the demand of the students. It is hard to believe that a small town like manipal, in the outskirts of udupi has some 7 nightclubs in all, and one of them running till 4 in the morning. Even in my hometown, Kolkata which is a metropolitan it is hard to find a nightclub which keeps its door open till 4 in the morning. The reason for this is the demand of the town is the demand of the students, the shops, the game parlours, the ice cream bar, the restaurants, the whole administrative system of the town is subtle modelled for the students, according to their wants. May be Manipal is the only town in India, which is tailor made for the students, keeping in mind how they think, what they want and how they desire various think. Manipal is an university city where the business of education has seamlessly converged with a perfect environment tailor made for the students, to make it more lucrative in one hand, and satisfying on the other.

manipal & me....

Manipal & me...

“Life’s a masquerade party, and I didn’t get an entry in it!!”

- Jim Morrison.

I came here in manipal 7 months back, with new aspirations, new dreams, and new hopes. After spending my childhood in the holocaust environment of a metropolitan city like Kolkata where the procrastination of people have intermingled with their urban lifestyle to form an amalgam of undefeatable desires, taking away their peace and adding more in the urge to want and desire more. Manipal is a student operated university town, where everything is operated for the students, or by the students of the university. It’s like the Oxfordshire Township on the outskirts of England, where the natural beauty is in a peaceful harmony with the urge to learn. Manipal was a place which promised free thinking, and free flow of thoughts, but more importantly no boundaries created by manmade procrastinations. After 7 months, I understood it’s not manipal, or any other town in which I seek solace, because the solace of my soul actually rests within the limitations of my own self, and when I break that I am free, and rational, which I always wanted to be. There is no city which is different from each other in their social structure, because a city of free thinking, and rationality Is not possible, not here, nowhere because the procrastination for a better life, is present wherever we are present, because we are the ones who add the fuel to procrastinations, and our bonded souls are the food of its desire.

Starting from today I will write how I saw manipal, in the beginning, and how it changed, giving new hopes, breaking the old ones, making me more mature from within and sharper from outside. I will say what I saw, and what I really felt about the place, and how we all here coped with it. At the end manipal is a town with lots of colours, but spontaneously volatile environment which dynamically keeps on changing, giving out various lights .