Sunday 7 December, 2008

Of Food and Faculty

Hey everyone... my first post here.. just copy-pasting some stuff from my blog that i wrote a few days back...

It's not often that you get to know the blokes who teach you outside the classrooms. More often than not, our interactions are just limited to the classrooms. I have been quite lucky in this respect that I have got to interact with a couple of faculty members outside the classroom environment over the last three and a half years. But what happened a couple of nights ago ws truly amazing. All of us sitting in the cafeteria, it being our last such get-together. A number of us were leaving for home the next day, and more importantly Sobu wasn't returning to college. He had been offered an internship at Qualcomm and would be in Hyderabad for the next semester. Anyways, lets not digress from the topic. So yeah, there we were sitting in the cafetaria talking from anything to everything under the sun when Manu, the guy who runs the cafe at night joined us. And well, he had some insight to offer on the food habits of our faculty members...

prof. shiv

A pretty fixed lunch... generally includes a daal, bhindi and jeera aloo.. just 2 chapatis (surprise surprise!!).. and lots of green salad... and yeah a strong coffee to top it off...

prof. mathuria

A daal a day is the motto for him... 30 days-30 daals... no deviation whatsoever... gets his veggies from home only..

prof. srivastava

Never eats in campus.. always goes home...

prof. banerjee

Well well... yeh to subah ka doodh bhi brajwasi se hi lene aate hain.. so u can guess ki khane ka to kya haal hoga.. no wonder raat ko bhi cafeteria mein hi dikhte hai... apparently, mrs. banerjee, doesn't like to cook..

Next we asked Manu kis sabse zyada kaun khata hai.. and well.. the list wasn't surprising at all...

pk chopra, prof. anil roy, kumbar....

prof. sinha (Daddu)
and prof. Jotwani were among the rare eaters... while rest everybody was almost a regular..

I wonder what happens next, now that brajwasi has finally decided to close its shop...

8 comments:

Avi said...

brajwasi has decided to close the shop?who is going to handle catering now?

Random Guy said...

yeah it has.. stopped operating the main canteen a couple of days back.. the cafeteria is still open though..
dnt kno as to who's gonna be the new guy.. let's wait and watch..

[Amod] said...

Brijwasi's exit will mark the end of an era.

Nice read about prof's eating habits. The only prof I ate with was Prof. Daddu.

Satish said...

cant imagine DA-IICT without Brajwasi.
let us know after the new caterer arrives..whats the change in food quality

DarK said...

I have missed the nite 4'o clock aaloo parantha for over a year now.

Ankush Jhalani said...

haha.. very nice post.. i thought i heard that manu moved to some other brijwasi franchise..

Mickey said...

Wow!!! finally some activity here....
Yeh we miss the place..... need to know whts all happening there. Can't wait to come back for Convocation....

Random Guy said...

ohk.. so like always brajwasi is still arnd.. he closed the main canteen for the month of december.. but apparaently got his way with the admin.. a lot of restrictions were put on the other counters.. and well, brajwasi is operating in all its glory!