VELLORE PADI

Sometimes when you stroll around in the summer night staring at the stars you feel relaxed and sober. A place so far away from the city, with the soul of the country, the rusticity of a village and the population so down to earth that you feel you are taking a walk down the memory lane. But when this same place becomes a reality and shatters your concept of college life and you are left cheated… 'Vellore' the place which can be so easily renamed Village just by changing the three letters shatters the dreams hopes and aspiration of millions of students who are lured into VIT every year.
Harbingering a dream college after watching the various adaptation of college life in the Hindi movies
(eg: MAIN HU NA ) and reaffirming their false hopes in the VIT brochure, we the teen come here, Vellore which doesn't even have its own railway station ( for railway enthu's it did just recently and no train stops there) is a small town away from the city life. The place exists because it harbors two colleges . The mother tongue is Tamil and if a person dares to start up a conversation in the Hindi u get stared at as if you just told Raghu that roadies suxs and Hinduism roxs. The auto drivers the shop keepers and all those you can visualize in a lungi have been born for the sole aim of misleading you and swindling you of all the money. The night life is the main highlight of this place, there is not a dog barking out at 9 pm only boys roaming around till 9'30 coz tats the max boys are allowed to be out of hostels. No comments on the girls hostel recently they received a letter of sympathy and brotherhood from the Tihar jail inmates.
The only happening places to be are the dhaba's which have sprung up in the neighborhood and having no choice to go we hog food which we cannot digest and pay for it too. You can have every dish you can imagine being cooked but with a twist. You get free kari-patta the whole branch of the poor plant in a bowl of chicken or veggies and if that is not enough we can have the south Indian style chicken where they convince you that its coconut which has been misnamed and misinterpreted for so long as chicken. People here are very religious and pious so much that half the men and women yes underlined women don't have hair. They shaved it off as a gift to god. Why on earth god who made everything from sun, moon, gold, silver gems want your hair. They are meant to be on your head. Sometimes they paint their faces with turmeric and say it's purifying. People have a shower that's purifying, that's how you stay clean and not by roaming around in public face yellow.
One casual question if you have a friend a close one and you walk in public what do you do. They hold hands ,the men do, why on earth do you want to publicly portray that you are not straight. Well some cultures you can't and shouldn't understand. The only thing to be learned is that there are no colleges where you can live the life SRK and CO live in their larger than life screen lives. And also that you can be beaten up by the public for not believing in the stunts that Rajinikant performs on screen. There are actually ways in which a bullet can be bisected by a knife in mid air to kill two Gundas. Scientist in Katpadi are already working on it and a paper will be presented very soon in the SED'S conference. ;)