Drying wood indoors

I had bought a lot of wood for building a bunk bed. One of the problems I faced was that the wood was really wet, even wet to the touch. It was straight out of the tree. With temperatures reaching 45 degrees centigrade in Vellore, drying the wood outside, though tempting resulted in cracks. So this wood was dried indoors, before planing. This is karuvelum wood or the Indian Babul. I stacked up the wood indoors and put on the fan. It dried a lot over a week. The pile of wood on the left is the wood stacked for drying. The previous lot of wood, already dried is seen piled up on the right.

This is by no means the correct way to dry wood. Wood is supposed to dry slowly, over a period of months to a year, with the humidity controlled. But this was my only option. 

Karuvelum (Babul) wood stacked indoors for drying. To the right is seen wood already dried, piled up close together.