HOSTEL CAPERS...
If you thought having five years of an intense experience as a hostelite and then some is not enough to write on then you would be wondering what would. Leave aside a bestseller, the kind of extreme situations that a boarder has to face to complete a decent education away from home in India would make for a gazillion case studies of the bizarre leanings! But we will leave that to the saner; right brained ahem babushkas (whatever that means). While a lot is being done about making hostels luxurious and livable mostly ‘India’ still thrives on the ones that I have been to. Having been an avid reader of the wrong kind of moral books like the very tame Enid Blytons in my childhood, the little adolescent in me had created my own very magical world of how a hostel life should be! It was full of midnight parties, tuck boxes and fun unlimited. Well you could say that it was much 'more' than a mixed bag for me. Well the tuck boxes and the midnight bashes were there all right, but so were...