Nurungukal....contd...

                Guruvayurappan college was situated in the heart of Calicut city [at Thali]. The campus was shifted to a nearby hillock an year before I joined. Although I had been to Calicut on earlier occasions, I was quite new to a college campus. Even the journey from Chalapuram, the place where I was staying with my uncle’s family in a city bus to Mankavu and a walk though a short cut [Kinassery padam] to the top of Pokkunnu, where the campus was, was exhilarating. Pokkunnu was barren and rocky. But it stood apart from many such, like a huge elephant in a lush green valley. As we stood in the ground before the entrance a cool breeze from the Arabian sea welcomed the new entrants. Down below, Calicut city was like a green fabric inter laced with Chaliyam and Kallai rivers,streets,factories, tiled roof tops , chimneys puffing up smoke,a railway line and beyond that the blue sea with a white crystalline shore. The college buildings were new with better facilities than in our schools.  But the playground full of stones of course discouraged me, because our school ground was made of soft Karuka pullu.........contd