The IITM forest-Experiences in a jungle

When you enter the campus, the fabulous flora and fauna welcome you in their own style!
The birds singing, the snakes hissing, monkeys along with mongooses- climbing and chattering,
and of course, the deer bounding, alongwith blackbucks, the white blackbucks and 'black' blackbucks.
There are also their predators.

There are only few tigers left in the forest now and the numbers are fast declining since the number of students have increased recently... (joking!)

Campus is divided in three major zones, the residential zone, academic zone and the hostel zone.
The residential zone is for the professors.
There are some avenues like Bonn avenue, Madras avenue and Delhi avenue.

These avenues meet up at the heart of the campus, the Gajendra Circle.
Its basically a statue of two elephants with a fountain, but its beauty is more than I have described.
The circle becomes alive, in the sense that the G.C. reveals its elegance during the insti festivals-
Saarang and Shaastra and also during the Convocation ceremony.

Also, there is a lake at IITM which is in residential zone. There are frequent cases of students roaming at the lake at around 2a.m...

I could have never discovered a temple near the lake, unless I would have gone 'exploring' the campus with a map in hand, torch and a water bottle in my bag. Wish I could have a fedora on that exploration!
(Note: Fedora is a type of hat.)

The GC connects all the three zones.
All the hostels, the Taramani Guest House, Student Facility Centre,etc. come under Hostel zone.
The hostels are named after the rivers,e.g. Saraswathi hostel, Godavari hostel.

There are five mega messes. The food at the mess is too awesome to describe.
I do not know the quality of food these days, as my lunch has mainly been in fruit shop consisting
of bananas and watermelons.
With this, I want to show the people, who did not manage to get in here, that there is at least
one thing they are better off at.

There is a Student Activities Centre(SAC) at which, programmes like Freshie Night, some Tech-Soc events,
and also Convocation, are held.

The various Departments like Electrical Sciences, Computer Sciences, Chemistry, etc. come under
the Academic zone.
Most of the classes for first year course curriculum are held in the Class Room Complex(CRC).

There is also a workshop, that students use to realise
what hard work is all about. By the end of the course,
the student will be a qualified construction worker,
painter, miner, carpenter, electrician, moulder, musician, beautifician,
lift-boy and of course badly injured.

Apart from the above topics,
there are also topics worth discussing like festivals (Shaastra, Saarang,some unknown management festival),
the labs at IIT Madras, the library, Schroeter, Tech-soc, Lit-soc, Centre for Innovation, Sustainability network but i just ran out of ink and hence won't be writing about any of the above topics.