title: Django Template does not exist error, although it shows 'file exists'
body: <p>I am not able to render any html pages in Django 1.7. My 'index.html' is in          '<code>project/seatalloc/templates/index.html</code>'  and my view.py in <code>project/seatalloc/views.py</code> looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code> def index(request):
         return render(request, 'index.html', dirs=('templates',)) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>project/project/settings.py has templates dirs set:</p>
  
  <pre><code>TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
      '/Users/Palak/Desktop/academics/sem3/cs251/lab11/project/seatalloc/templates',
  
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>urls.py:</p>
  
  <pre><code>urlpatterns = patterns('',
      url(r'^seatalloc/', include('seatalloc.urls')),
      url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FOm9Y.png" alt="Template loader"></p>
  
  <p>I have tried to follow the documentation strictly, yet can't figure out if Django detects the file, why am I getting TemplateDoesNotExist at /seatalloc/ error. I am new to Django, could someone please help.</p>