Food...

Kaushik was very fond of food like many of us are. I think hostelites become foodies because they are deprived of good food and consequently you start appreciating good food and miss your home food very much. Finally you start liking home food - period and normally do not have any strong choices left. So before you join a hostel bahut NAKHRE rehte hai but after having spent ages in a hostel you become an "ideal" person (as far as food is concerned ONLY) for your MOM and in future for the wives!!
We used to literally freak out on food. We always got up hungry (we had a very bad substandard mess attached to the hostel) and went to Pundlik's chai shop. There we used to have steaming samosas and cut chai. Oh man it used to feel so heavenly. So obviously we skipped lunch and went to college. And obviously we felt hungry again. So we went to Bandu's canteen and gorged on dahi kachoris and dahi samosa's AGAIN.
Our lunch and dinner bill was always LOWER than our samosa's and kachori's bill...medically not good but those were the days of gay abandon and this common LIKE brought us closer...
Many day scholars invited us to their homes Shyam, Ajit, Ravi Anna to name a few Many brought packed food for Kaushik - normally his class friends (girls mostly!! for he was a popular guy and more so amongst the fairer sex) and we both nomally shared the spoils...