The Closing Chapter

Life at Rajagiri School of Engineering Technology as a student has now come to a wind up. No more bunking classes, begging for attendance and internals and finally no more having fun in that magnificent campus.

As I look back it comes to me that each and every place I had a reason to hate has turned itself into one with a hundred reasons to be relished as a memory.

Like Abey used to say all these awful things we had to go through have now cast us into what we are today. Everything that we were denied in the campus were achieved by us one way or the other. Now I see that their denial fueled our determination molding us into a better form. I don’t hate Rajagiri anymore, I am thankful, thankful to all the things it made me do, to all the things it taught me and to all the people it brought me to.

The closing chapter is not a big thank you note to the Rajagiri Vidyapeetham, it is about the final verse or the concluding page in my life in Rajagiri as a student of Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology. It all began with an annoying power disruption in the Rajagiri Men's Hostel SANJOE II.

Rahul, a man who can't live without electricity comes to Abey's room with a plan to explore the unexplored areas of Rajagiri and the three of us embark on a mission to find the rarely visited places in the Rajagiri Valley Campus.

The first challenge we were faced with is our hostel fence. We had a lot of dificulty in climbing that fence made having spear-like bars pointing upwards causing a real danger to our properties. Ofcourse me and Rahul did not have any trouble climbing over without anybody noticing it. But our dear friend Abey Alex could never do anything that great without being in the limelight. (:P) Abey received a lot of encouragement from the hostel inmates to climb the fence and even though he did climb the fence twice or thrice he couldn't make it to the other side due to some technical difficulties. (Poor fellow was utterly humiliated.)

Abey couldn't make it. So the two of us left to experience the campus like never before.

The horse tracks were where we began our journey. The construction of this amazing and beautiful walkway in Rajagiri has just commenced. Beautifully planted pine trees along the sides of the road gives you a pleasant feeling even when all around was soaked up by yesterdays rain. When we walk a little further we could see the waste eating monster Brahmapuram Waste Disposal plant. No offense though this big jerked up project had bothered our nose during the last 4 years. But the thought of bidding adieu to the place made me stand watching that giant eat piles of waste.

At the end of the path we saw a horse. At RSET during our boring lectures we do sleep in class or we often look out the window to see beautiful horses grazing in the campus hence you might think that this matter of seeing a horse on the last day at RSET be mentioned with such importance. Well people this time our subject is not the horse. It is Rahul Manoharan!

This dude or the attitude machaan or whatever he calls himself (:P) have been intolerable to most of us in pur college life. Today is the first day in my life I see him showing compassion and low to a living being. Even though he was posing for a photo with it he fed the horse with a leaf he himself plucked from the surrounding. Oh my god! Everybody who was not there especially Abey Alex you missed this once in a life time opportunity.


After that we walked on to see Thaja one of the oldest horses in RSET. And it was just after that we made the greatest discovery in Rajagiri, oru pakka vellamadi spot! We were suddenly hit by the sorrow that we couldn't make this discovery in the last four years.

This place was named "River View" was hidden by the staff from us. This beautiful spot is nestled behind the Rajagiri School of Management right alongside Chithrappuzha. It is well hidden from any visitors to the Rajagiri campus yet provides a beautiful ambiance for get togethers and you know, stuff..!

We decided to call it a day and returned to the hostel. On our route back we walked past the MBA girls's hostel which has an incredibly low wall in its backside. Our last stop was our ground which is being converted to an indoor stadium along with the co-operation of the Kerala Cricket Association. We did a bit of a pitch report in the cricket pitch and hoped that someday someone like Harsha Bhogle would fill our shoes by doing a pitch report on this very same pitch. (Fingers crossed.)
And it all did not end there. Mayil Rajagiri along with Adarsh went on a trip to Munampam. Will tell you all about that in some other post.