Kasturba Medical College

This is our medical college located in the Vijay area of Mangalore. If you know Karnataka, you know Mangalore can get quite a lot of rain, so we are often carrying umbrellas around the campus. It’s a serious place because, well, it’s a medical school after all. You’ll see students in their white coats everywhere, usually with their heads in big textbooks or rushing to a clinic for their rounds. The buildings are spread out a bit, and they have that solid, older look to them. It’s not a brand-new glass building, but it’s got a lot of history and character. We have labs and lecture halls that stay busy until late in the evening. The atmosphere is quiet in some spots and very loud in others, like the canteen during the lunch hour when everyone is hungry. We don’t go in for much corporate polish here; the focus is just on the medicine and the learning. The staff has a lot on their plates, managing all the different departments and making sure the students are where they need to be. It’s a long road to becoming a doctor, and you can see that on the faces of the people walking around here. We just provide the space and the tools they need to get through it. It’s a hard-working environment, and we don't try to dress it up as anything else. It's just a place where a lot of studying happens every day of the week.