SUJI: A life that was MNR

The Hostels

5 Boys’ hostel, 2 Girls’ hostel and a PG hostel – eight in all; how can one forget the place that ‘s been one’s home for a span of 4 years. 69, 208, 179, 198 – might just sound numbers, but that’s how I defined my whereabouts during my stay at MNR. Rooms in Tagore alone were three seated, otherwise rooms were single seated. Tagore Rooms had their own fun while single seated rooms had their own importance – opinions differ, and the debate’s still on. Another debatable question was the choice of the floor – this time between the ground and the top. Ground floor was the coolest but your good night’s sleep could be all out with mosquitoes if you didn’t have a tortoise around. Top was the hottest and would provide you a daily exercise with 40 steps up and down. However, the disturbance factor was inversely proportional to the number of steps. The next question was the choice of the room within a wing. These were branded as super deluxe, deluxe and semi-deluxe respectively in the order of proximity from the bathroom. The advantage of super deluxe was that disturbance would be zero at nights but infinity in the mornings including the smell.

The process of allotment of rooms in first year took care that guys of different state and categories stay in one room while in the other years, guys belonging to different years and disciplines stay in one wing. This kind of an allotment was really fantastic as it helps in avoiding the formation of factions. But in recent years, the hostel authority has given up this process and started allocating rooms at random. Also, it has been hard to check the exchange of rooms unofficially by individual students.

Hostels have become more decorative in terms of electrical fittings, colorful fencings etc. but their condition has deteriorated like bathroom seepage.