“Agla station VISHWAVIDYALA hai. Darwaazay baai taraf khulenge. Kripya Saavdhaani se utarein...”
As the concerned digital voice commanded the Metro passengers, several left their seats & moved towards the gates. With a screeching sound (I love to hear that), the train came to a halt, and a flood of students moved out of it. Rushing towards the escalators, they concentrated more on their mobile phones rather than the spots to fix their feet on.
Rather than concentrating on my cell phone, or the girl standing next to me or joking over the instructions as to how to use the escalators, like several others, I paid more attention to the intoxicating feeling inside me…the feeling of being a FUCHCHA (I hated that word and found it super stupid)
At that time, I did not at all know what getting admission in THE UNIVERSITY OF DELHI meant. A feeling of awe arose in my heart as I was about to enter a new world. Another thing I was interested in was to figure out who among the fitness-conscious escalator users were freshers like me, just to exchange a few words though I knew I could not go beyond “Which course?” and “Which College?” (I was SCARED yaar!) But finding it an idiotic idea, I shelved it up & stepped off the escalators.
As I reached the gate no. 4 of the Vishwavidyalaya Metro Station, a swarm of rickshaw pullers attacked me & few others. (Come ON! Do I need to have a tag over my forehead that commands them to back off!!) But there’s one thing attractive about them, because I can never approach a girl with ‘ZERO’ approach anxiety & ask her openly “Kaha Chalogi?”
Ignoring the bee swarm, as I stepped on to the CHHATRA MARG and turned my head left, MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT!! I fell in love with the place within nano-seconds. I felt like shouting WOW at the top of my volume. BAND BAJA BARAT, DIL DOSTI,ETC, etc, every movie that was shot here became my favorite. It was really a world class campus (My father used to say this but I never believed him completely, not till that very moment). The crowd was superb and just walking on the CHHATRA MARG seemed to be the biggest honor ever.
But as night follows day, the awesome feeling led to a negative emotion which said
“Crap! I’m here just for three years & where I had been all my life??”
I felt like interacting with each and every student there & ask him “Do you have any idea how much I’m going to enjoy it here??”
Dreaming and more dreaming, I was walking towards Hans Raj College and something broke my dreams….
TIME….it was 9.00 am
Superb! I was late for my first class….
What a kick start???
And I started walking faster than ever…..
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Palash Bharti is a first year Computer Science student, studying at the Hans Raj College. He loves travelling, playing Volleyball, solving SUDOKU, watching movies and socialising with like- minded people. He tries to convey through his write- ups the things that he observes in his surroundings.
