zindgi ki khubsurti

...the three storey building of the government hostel  was designed on a long straight line,   rooms in a row  corridor in the  middle and again another row of more rooms facing the front,  room doors faced each other  , huge meshed windows  on the starting and ending points of the corridor which hardly ventilated the corridor but they definitely  casted dim sunlight  to keep the corridor  lighted up during the daytime 

All the three floors  were  built on the same pattern  except  on the middle floor  the corridor had a door on one side instead of the window,  the wooden door lead to a dining room  beside the spiral stairs and a kitchen,  there was a  l e d television on one of the  walls in the dining hall for furniture  three long tables and chairs and cheap curtains  furnished the window,  in the kitchen  all the walls were  covered with rotting wooden cabinets in which the girls  kept their things locked up , greasy and dirty the ply had lost all their beauty,  there was no air conditioning in the hostel nor was anyone given permission to keep one,  summer nights were  terribly testing specially for those who had  West facing  room  windows  that  let 8n full burning sun heat  raising the temperatures of their room  walls  , direct afternoon sun by the evening  turned the rooms to  hot ovens, girls  moved up to the terrace  to sleep in the cool, mostly in the months of July and August