Ludhiana, Feb. 7 -- The alumni of College of Agriculture at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) returned to their alma mater on Thursday for the 60th alumni meet.

Overjoyed, the alumni reminisced on their student days as they reunited with old friends after decades. "It feels so good to be back with my buddies from college after so long. It is just a sojourn back in time," said Sarjit Singh Gill, who graduated from the college in 1966.

Besides poetry, banter and lengthy conversations between old classmates, Gill said a pleasant change in the culture at the varsity in all these years was the representation of women.

"When we joined, it was pretty much an all-boys club. It was only after the college of home sciences was established that...