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.