Manipal - a small town in Mangalore

I had heard so much about this place, but didn't find an opportunity to visit.
Last week, we did visit this place. It is a university more than a town. As you enter the town from Udupi (5 kms away), you find the medical university, college, hospitals to your right. The engineering colleges on the left. The so called MIT (often confused with Massachusetts in the U.S) is on the left. Followed by the MBA colleges.
The place is a blend of rural township and the ultramodern living with continental food courts to small village homely hotels. My daughter and I, (generation gap :-( ) enjoyed with our individual food selection.
The most awesome part of our 1 & 1/2 day exploration was the anatomy museum. This was something marvellous and interesting. They have samples from brain to the smallest part, like natal cord. The cojoint twins, to infected parts of the body, gave us a enough learning of what otherwise, was imagined through reading. The ideal thing could have been, a display of normal human part and the infected parts thereon. We wanted a comparision to learn more about the infectious part. There was a silence with thoughts on creation & creator and the creator's super specialist doctor, ready to repair the mistakes from the creator. A patch fix on a defect of a software.
We relished the Pabas icecream before boarding the train to Bangalore. The experience was wholesome including the much talked about Mangalore rains.