According to me, neighborhood is made by neighbors which can be things, buildings, people and their activities. There is always a relation between people, places and activities. Places affect people’s activities and vice versa in many different ways. Different kind of people use different places differently. For ex. a normal person using bus stop is completely different from a blind person using it. All these things combined together make a neighborhood. I am the CEPT new canteen. My immediate neighbors are the FA Building, the North Lawns, the Garba Ground, and the Hutheesingh art gallery. And if we go a bit far, Kanoria Art Center, and the University Road also is my neighbor. Let me first describe myself and then I will go on to describing my neighbors. I am a one storey linear structure made of concrete and metal. My ground floor is used as canteen whereas the upper floor is for students to get their lectures. Students, faculty members, parents, workers, I see all of them eating under the shade of the big Neem trees in front of me. Some come and admire my beauty. I am not painted, I do not have any decorative part in my body but still I am beautiful. I am beautiful because of my simplicity and the raw texture of my walls and columns. Oh! How can I forget to mention about my columns? I have eleven pentagonal concrete columns. These are designed to keep me cold on the inside as they cut off most of the sunlight entering inside. My walls do have ears. I hear all the discussions happening around me. Some related to study and some are just normal gossips. The FA Building is the oldest building in this university. We became friends only few months ago because my existence is just a few months old. In my discussion with FA building, it told me about its design, and its importance. Its designer has taken a light hand on the elaboration of detailing to ensure that its rawness allows intervention and interaction with the building. The expression of the building is invariably tied to the drawings that are pinned up, the models and mockups that punctuate spaces and the presence of exhibitions and other events that make the character of this building. I get cool breezes from the lawns. These lawns have a very fascinating contour resembling that of small hills. During daytime the grass is bright parrot green but as the day ends, it becomes a darker green. Watching it the whole day, it feels like the grass is changing colors just like the emotions of people around me. It is bright, cheerful, and full of energy during the day and becomes dull and calm in the night. The form and the beauty of its bright and even color throughout have such an impact that people coming from there to me carry on the discussion about it. People go there to sit and talk and when they are hungry, the come to me. Kanoria Art Centre and the Huttheesingh Art Gallery are the places where creativity is on display. The sculptures and installations in Kanoria and paintings in the Art Gallery are amazing. The University Road has a mix smell. On its edges one can smell maggi and coffee but in between there is smell of dust and smoke because of traffic. A huge no. of people come to fill their empty stomachs over there. There are almost 9 to 10 people (mostly college students) on every stall. Some come to just chat and while their time around. As I am an institutional canteen, I know the importance of time in the life of CEPT students. Their day starts mostly at 8:30. And most of the time, it does not start or end. I have seen people working here day and night. In that case I am their best friend. They come to have tea and coffee a lot of times in a day. They talk about work which interests me as well. Every day, some are familiar faces but some are not. Those which are not are once in a week visitors. They are from nearby institutes like MG Science College, LD School of Pharmacy etc. The movement of people around me is very controlled. There is never a chaos because I have the perfect seating arrangement for everyone, and enough working space for cooking and all the other activities like washing utensils, serving orders etc. But if you see the stalls on the University Road, they are all the time chaotic, not only because of people sitting and eating there but also because of traffic. It is a very busy road throughout the day. In the day time, girls and boys can be seen roaming around but the situation is completely different in the night. There are mostly boys all around. Now, I think I have talked a lot about food and traffic; so let us come back to my other neighbors. Architecture building is lively throughout the day. There are discussions happening all around, models being made, sketches being done. Not only that these people do not miss any opportunity to enjoy. They organize jams and play badminton and TT in the Sagara Basement. I have seen their hard-work and their masti too. The campus life of CEPT University is very open. Parents of students who live nearby also come in the break time to give tiffins to their children. They sit on the steps and near the ramp to have it. The Garba Ground is called so because it is the place where Garba in Navratri is held. A temple is kept in the middle of the ground and people do Garba around it. What a beautiful sight! But the other days are not as beautiful as those 9 days. During the day time, there are dogs littering around and fighting. But night is livelier over here. Boys and girls play games here. Boys mostly play football and girls play badminton a little far from the ground’s boundary. I am a silent observant of the activities around me. I enjoy all these different conversations between different people. All of this is what constitutes my neighborhood. ? BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1. “Interview with architect Nader Tehrani”. Essaying the functionality. Volume 8, Issue-4, February 2018. 2. “Islam in South Asia (Mar. - May, 2008), pp.431-456”. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 42, N.2/3.