The document verification.

One of the things I have always hated is repeated SMSes, conveying the same message. And TISS is guilty of the same!

They would send the same text message again and again, asking you to be present on 1st of May between 10 AM -3 PM for document verification. They said that if there were any issues with our documents, they would cancel our provisional selection in PMRDF. Well, this frightened me. I am quite careless with my documents, and I feared till the last minute that I would lose piece of laminated paper, and I would have to return back to Assam disappointed!

With an intention to be on time, I took a local train from Thane and then a rickshaw. They didn't know where TISS was. I was disappointed. Who in Assam didn't know where IIT-Guwahati was? But this wasn't Assam. Every alternate road had a landmark as important as the next, if not better!

And they were rather slow! My documents were verified at 3 pm. And in the meantime, I had interacted with a few persons. I don't usually remember names, but this gentleman was different. He was a doctor named Nikhil from Chitradurga in Karnataka. Oh yes, it has a reputation! We had lunch together. They have a good canteen (they call it Dinning Hall). It was quite hygienic, more so for a person who had come from XISS!

We were alloted rooms in a building about 1.4 kilometres away from the Main Campus. A bus took us there, with all our baggage. As the bus stopped, I took my bag and walked down to the building. There was this guy from Tripura who  was alloted to be in the same room as me. I got to know his name later. Sintu Chakma.

I had my document verification on 1st of May. So, I arrived on TISS campus at around 11 am.