Patiala is a small city in northern India of about 500 000 people. It is quite small, somewhat disorganized, extremely busy and always full of people and traffic. There is not much to the town here. There is a hospital, the college, a jail, a few temples and a couple markets. The students at Thapar do not like Patiala at all and constantly ask us why we bothered to come to the middle of nowhere. The main attraction here is the market (that I have yet to visit) which is apparently rather small. There is no mall, no movie theatres and according to the students, nowhere to have fun. So, this past weekend, we went on our first adventure, to the city all the students love: Chandigarh. The trip We got up early on Saturday morning
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