The “process” would start approximately 2 to 3 days before
the period of holidays with a notice, in the hostel, that would read “Home pass for so and so
holidays given from 6pm to 8pm. No pass will be issued after 8pm. Blah Blah.”
This would be followed by 2-3 days of impatient wait. After the entire last
minute packing and wait, its exultation for the students who availed the pass for
a temporary escape from the “Prison”.
One would find the campus with lot of activity on a day like
this. The college will end at 3:30pm and five minutes later one can find
students with their luggage roaming around the campus, chit chatting, dining in
the canteen, and walking all the way to gate, withdrawing money from the ATM
and after this the only person obstructing freedom would be the security;
handing him the pass would shut his mouth.
Then the crowd eventually shifts to the Ettimadai railway
station, now there are two sorts, one on their way to the Coimbatore junction
and the other to Palakad City. The station becomes deserted after 7:00pm. A
thirty minute fun journey from the Ettimadai station is all that separates one
from good food. After an impatient walk, with a growling stomach, amidst the
swarm of people to the cloak room and depositing the luggage there after a long
wait, the noises from the stomach turns into a roar before one can lay his hand
on the food.
After a sumptuous dinner followed by dessert, spiced up with
conversations, all that is left to do for one is to board the train after
bidding farewell and promising meet ups. As the horn sounds and the train
moves, sitting with excitement and expectations at its peak, the thought of
mom, dad, friends and not to forget the good food for the next few days.
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