The Kings of mountainside construction

The rest of our day was relaxing in comparison to the hell bent ride up the mountain. Rahul gave me a tour of the university where he spent his final three years of undergraduate studies. The grounds were fairly clean, but seemed older then the seven years that the university has been around for. It may just be that I am used to limestone, and this university was almost completely concrete.

The university was built and is supported by Jaypee Concrete, one of the larger and more trusted concrete companies in at least the state of U.P. The company was started by Jaypee Gaur, a once small time engineer, who made an income of 150 rupees, 3 US dollars, a month. It is now one of the largest distributors of concrete, hydroelectric dam construction, and hospitality in U.P.

The owner and founder of J.C. has a saying, something along the lines of, why make a donation when we can build a school; a very respectable statement to make, and follow through on, might I say.

The university is aptly named the Hogwarts of India, as it rises out of the mountainside tree line in a similar majestic fashion. Although the construction is much simpler then the baroque style of the original Hogwarts, the buildings light up the mountain, both during the day, as the buildings are a bright yellow color, and night, as the campus is vast in its footprint. The size of the campus dwarfs all other buildings, homes, and hill stations surrounding it, making it easy to spot in the skyline.