ALL ROADS LEAD TO KAMLA!

What’s the first thing that springs up in your head when your class gets cancelled or you have some free time before a lecture? “Let’s go to Kamla, guys!” is the most common phrase I get to hear in and around the campus. What is an experience of North Campus without frequently punctuated trips to Kamla Nagar all through your college life?

My first trip to Kamla (though I really don’t count it as one) is one funny incident. I was just a week old in college and it was our lab class. Our teacher insisted on presenting an auxiliary notebook in order to mark our attendance for the class. I told my friend of a stationary store I had once seen near SRCC. So we set out on foot to buy a notebook. But we lost track and ended up walking up till Kamla Nagar. Later, I got to know that we had Xerox shops right next to our college which kept handy the stationary items. My friends really had a good laugh at us later.

Kamla Nagar

Coming to my first actual shopping trip to Kamla Nagar. It was around the time we were about to have our fresher’s party(which actually never happened owing to several delays and then complete dismal, courtesy the approaching exams and the incomplete syllabus). Kamla has so much to offer that you can never get enough of it. An exquisite blend of street food and international taste, everybody has something to dig in. The street spicy Chacha Chole Wala was the perfect place to start our delicious journey. The sale notices outside the stores tempting us to walk in through every store. Picking up random stuff from roadside vendors, accessorising our cell-phones and stopping by at almost every street food vendor got us to know each of us better. Planning about what to do the next time we come to Kamla Nagar, we practically raided every store in there.

After that one time, Kamla Nagar became our second home, almost.  I remember once a friend going their just to eat the piquant bhel-puri. Over the year, “K Nags” has always been to our rescue, be it a thing as insignificant as a hair clip or the over-rated farewell blouses. It’s like that spare mobile phone you cannot part with which saves the day when your fad yet complicated phone turns back on you!

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Radhika Tandon is a student of B.Sc. Physical Science first year from S.G.T.B. Khalsa College. She loves to read and write about her surroundings. She is passionate about music and is a trained classical singer. She dislikes meeting new people but loves to hangout with her friends.

 

THE DU COSY FASHION

Since time immemorial fashion has been a ruling point in a girl’s world, apart from that, chocolates and shopping there seldom something that can uplift our mind and hearts.

You would agree with me that when one thinks of DU, one rarely thinks of its enormous workload but rather picture in mind students hanging out in canteens dressed in high end clothes and looking picture perfect. The story is sometimes far from so…

In the first year, students are fashion conscious, they put real effort after their look. Fresh out of their schools and the monotony of the uniforms it is a race against time to bring out the ‘dudes’ and the ‘dudettes’ in them. Taking a world of people who have never always had the freedom to dress, they can be seen strutting in heels and flaunting their accessories. It’s a vibrant and brand new world! As in when the months go the focus tilts, the semester system leaves you with less time to really spend an hour in front of the mirror and even the inclination is reduced. As we roll into the second year we see that comfort becomes the new ‘fashion’. Students wear what is cool and light not only to combat the weather but as it is also easier to manage. Not only that, but it also gives them that edge of being ‘carelessly cool’.

Students wear the simples of tees maybe paired with a vibrant coloured lower and they are set! Maybe after a year tussling with (a) what you want to wear, (b) what your parents what you to wear and (c) what you SHOULD wear, you finally develop a ground where it comes to you naturally! What I call the ‘cosy fashion’. A perfect example that comes to my mind is of my own class. In the first year all the girls with long hair would probably put an hour worth of effort just to make the hair fall right or that the ‘puff’ is just right! Now when I look at my class, they are blissfully ignorant of what their hairstyle is, in fact most of them just pull it into a bun and stick a pencil into it to keep it in place! 

Many people also have this belief that all the girl’s colleges are some sort of Mecca of high street fashion. I do agree that is really the case in some colleges especially the north campus ones as they have the luxury of ‘Kamla Nagar’ with them but many others just don’t follow the trend. They follow simple wear, needless to say, the competition is minimal and the air of the college is relaxed and sweet!

Over the years, though my school and college, I have learnt that fashion is really not about what you wear or how you wear it, instead how you wear your attitude! Even if you wear drab clothes but you have a pleasing personality, people will ‘stop and stare’. Isn’t it true, that a smile is the first thing we notice on someone? It’s the aura you project that matters and not the amount of money you have invested behind that Tee.  It’s about how comfortable you can be with your own self. After all a college is a place where you not only nurture your brain but also your personality and it does not come from your looks. Be comfortable with what you really are inside and the world will love you! After all isn’t that the most important thing?

Image courtesy: Fagun Ralhan

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Tulika Banerjee is a student of Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women. She is very passionate about everything she does... she loves to write, sing, dance, paint, speak so on and so forth!! Her friends love her because she loves them A LOT! She generally takes charge of stuff and sees that they are done properly. She is affectionate, strong and a voracious reader. Life is fun for her and exploring it is her job. She hopes that she can grow up well and achieve all her goals.