06/06/2014

06/06/2014; 23:06 :

Now that the top-most level has been explored and understood, let's move to the middle layer.

The stairs that we students most often take are the ones next to the Mandir i.e the second staircase from the Director's Residence, right before the Library.
Once down, the road goes in three directions (well, four really but the fourth just goes back to where we came from!) left, centre and right. Let's stick with the left road, for today.

On turning left, you encounter a Hostel Block on your right side. Also, an SBI ATM and Mytrix -Hair Saloon for Men is seen. Right opposite this is ER-4 (Executive Residence- 4).

Ahead is the Medical Centre, which for unbeknownst reasons is closed on Sundays. Because, of course, illness too takes Sundays off.
Anyway, it's there and very useful- the Ambulance is always on call, medicines are available and the Doctors (more so the nurses) are ever-ready to help! The road downhill leads to the Faculty Housing Area.

Opposite the Medical Centre is the newly constructed Community Centre, that currently houses the Student-run Pi Shop, a grocery store, a fruit-&-vegetable shop and a tailor.
The Pi Shop recently moved shop to this new location. They sell everything that one might need on campus - even selling pillows and buckets, when a new batch of students moves in! They've acquired three refrigerators, progressively, one to stock plain milk/lassi/curd and the other two to stock an assortment of cold drinks/ energy drinks / fruit juices.
Two Coffee Machines- one for Hot Coffee/Tea/Soup and another for Cold Coffee/Iced Tea are the most crowded. Of course, the recently acquired freezer (on 6th May, 2014) that houses an assortment of ice-cream is posing tough competition.

The grocery store next door is perfect complement and competition to the Pi Shop. The best part is that fact that since the owner of the Grocery Store has a much larger shop in Rau (the village in which IIM-Indore is situated), he is able to easily & very quickly procure items on demand.

The tailor had begun with repairing torn clothes and soon moved to stitching clothes, selling IIM-Indore merchandise, selling T-shirts, swimming costumes, shoes and white-boards.

The Fruit-&-Vegetable shop has recently acquired a 'Sugarcane-Juice Machine' , an electronic one at that too! All through summer, this saw a steady buzz of thirsty students.

All this activity has been restricted to the ground floor of the Community Centre. There has been talk of a Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) or a Ladies Beauty Parlour that is soon to open on the first floor.

Mangosteen is an actual thing, a fruit to be precise. This was a very recent discovery for me. One that happened by chance!
There's a restaurant by the same name, in Indore. On learning of its existence, I was quick to question the strange name. It was then that I was informed of the existence of this apparently delicious fruit. I also happened to spot it in the market today! I shall dare to try it too, some time soon!