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.
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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!
KNOW YOUR FRIEND FROM DU
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.
