Most of the students from my college have spent their time at this place than they actually did in their classroom. Well, technically, for those who aren't aware of Seethanna's place (more like a shop on wheels), its the joint outside our college where people enjoy the Chaats with chats. Although in the beginning of my academic year, the idea of eating at that place used to scare me..not that i have some phobia..its just that i know the limitation of my immune system and usually eating at such joints make me visit the 'holy place' like 4-5 times at night and that can lead to lot of ATP loss!! So may be i did try avoiding it as much as i could..but my friends were persistent, so i was left with no other option but to eat at that place..i guess the first two times were the hardest coz of the visits, but then i guess my stomach got used to it .
There are many incidents i wish to share about the place but will hang to this particular one. This occurred in the second semester, after a tiresome practical, as we literally dragged our legs
to the class, i asked Jos if we could grab a bite(seriously folks standing long hours in lab can really make u hungry!!!) and Jos on top of her voice just screamed that all are invited to join us at Seethannas (provided its self pay- though she didn't mention that it was understood ) and to our surprise 24 of them showed up..(cum'on for a bunch of exhausted people who just thing of reaching home at the earliest ,24 was not a bad number, I do consider this as one of Jos's accomplishment).
At times Seethanna turned to be a place of memory boost ups..like you see your friends holding a book/apron and suddenly realize you had to go to library to pick up a book which was applied in the morning or take the apron for wash on weekend and it was a place to share ideas, food-though in the rotation of your passing if it crossed Ravi,Saran u may not have anything left! (and i know they wont even deny it). Sometimes it was the place where we sat till the sunset and had long chats till the moon rised, just sat and waved to a walking friend or Smitha Ma'am going home in her car.
The guy who served us, Melvin (used to call him uncle when he didn't respond to his name) even gave us his wedding card at one visit, though unfortunately we couldn't go. Then there was this other stall just next to it and one day i just asked my friends when we could actually go and try food over the other place.To that Saran replied quite casually that it would never be possible until Melvin's alive!! and i guess that was partly true coz we were this guys regulars and he would have never let us go..
There are many incidents i wish to share about the place but will hang to this particular one. This occurred in the second semester, after a tiresome practical, as we literally dragged our legs
to the class, i asked Jos if we could grab a bite(seriously folks standing long hours in lab can really make u hungry!!!) and Jos on top of her voice just screamed that all are invited to join us at Seethannas (provided its self pay- though she didn't mention that it was understood ) and to our surprise 24 of them showed up..(cum'on for a bunch of exhausted people who just thing of reaching home at the earliest ,24 was not a bad number, I do consider this as one of Jos's accomplishment).
At times Seethanna turned to be a place of memory boost ups..like you see your friends holding a book/apron and suddenly realize you had to go to library to pick up a book which was applied in the morning or take the apron for wash on weekend and it was a place to share ideas, food-though in the rotation of your passing if it crossed Ravi,Saran u may not have anything left! (and i know they wont even deny it). Sometimes it was the place where we sat till the sunset and had long chats till the moon rised, just sat and waved to a walking friend or Smitha Ma'am going home in her car.
The guy who served us, Melvin (used to call him uncle when he didn't respond to his name) even gave us his wedding card at one visit, though unfortunately we couldn't go. Then there was this other stall just next to it and one day i just asked my friends when we could actually go and try food over the other place.To that Saran replied quite casually that it would never be possible until Melvin's alive!! and i guess that was partly true coz we were this guys regulars and he would have never let us go..
hey , we had a similar hangout place back in my college days..... In graduation days it was an icecream parlour... and in my PG days, it was a small shop near our college beach.... WOW!! meri pehli "baarish ki maggie" ... I had it there....
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hey dear...did u forget to read the menu?charmuri(with and without tomato),bhel(with and without sweet),sevpuri,masala puri(with and without khara),mango pachodi,raw mango slices[with salt and chilly powder sprinkled-which Melwin used to give us at the end of mega hogging session:)],boiled egg(8 or 16 pieces????),charmuri with boiled egg,sandwich with omlette,sugar cane juice,lime soda,etc etc...simply delicious and mouth watering eateries..i really miss it now yaar!!!!
ReplyDeleteoh appu first thing i thought when i read her blog was i wil write a comment on menu..hmmm u copy cat read my mind..i really mis seets..ha boiled egg with 16 pieces s my patent (US patent file no 81663346). and appu u forgot to mention d awsom LIME COLA which u all relished so much :)...n also some other dishes like egg masala, burji :). N d best part was having it just before avila mam's class :)..ammu i think u should also thank n mention abt our sweet samosa ajja..wat say?
ReplyDeleteone of the funniest thing is that......after seeing mevins wedding card...our kulla first thought that its mevins sons marriage...and also wished him so....oh god i just cant forget seethanna..;-(..one week it gave me prob....shhhhhhhh... am sure all the boys had same experience...and later we all got imunity to that food....but I dont know shash and kulla nevr got the immunity they wer the worst strugglers...ha ha..hope u all understand....come on ur biotech ..u should know...nice blog..;-)
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