Goodbye Center of Decadence

As the afternoon sun sets over the green CIEFL campus I am suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of surprising nostalgia. Surprising, because in my two years in this campus I have nothing but hated each and every aspect of it, from its hastily put together jam sessions (though I am always the last person to leave the dance floor) to its pretentious Festival of Ideas (thank god we didn’t indulge in that intellectual hedonism this year), from its futile, high voltage GB meetings (I stopped talking to two very good friends for a week after we had a minor clash of opinions) to its loser infested chai crawls (thankfully it died its natural death). And more passionately than everything else, I chose to dislike (am consciously not using the word hate here because hatred would entail some kind of emotional investment) the people here…
And yet today, at the fag end of my stay here, I feel something so indiscernibly weird…
Which raises a lot of questions…was I pretending not to have a good time here?? (sometimes maybe)…was this 2 years stay really that unfruitful?? (maybe not…)
And horror of horrors, will I miss this place?? (I will definitely miss some life long friends that I have made here)…
And most importantly – what do I like about this place??
Apart from the lush greenery of the campus and a few friends , nothing much really, well wait there are other things …yes I do like being part of the Film Club and I do like being a part of something as concrete as a play (whenever we stage one)…
But that doesn’t make up for the bad everything I am subjected to everyday…
And don’t get me wrong I am not talking about the bad mess food (which I kinda like) and the stinky toilets (which I am kinda immune to nowadays)…
Goodbye CIEFL I will all but miss you…

P.S. I hate the grotesque entrance plaza too, God will anyone ever do something about that weird Jantar Mantar meets Great Wall of China thingy!!!