A Walk Through ‘Chor Gali’

9th October 2013  

 

A long narrow pathway with bricks of walls raised on either sides. Amid the 15 ft wall and trees that canopied us, a sense of darkness and still silence loomed around the place . As we walked into the lane, the crisp noise of leaves crushing beneath our foot gave it all an eerie feeling. And a little further into the dark alley on a Sunday afternoon,we realised that our footing wasn’t firm as the stone slabs that made the passage was shaky. Nevertheless we decided to walk it up until I looked back to see something and gasped for breath…I was motionless for a minute.
 

In stead of visiting the popular places in Delhi ,I set out to visit the North campus of Delhi University. A huge campus indeed, I was surprised to see the place was abuzz with students even on a Sunday. A few had come to watch a movie in a talkies called Amba, while a few others enjoyed licking kulfi from the local kulfi wala. The melting Kulfi reminded me of how torrid the weather in Delhi can get. So wondering where to head to my friend and i took a stroll through the campus until we came across this place called the Chor Gali ( a lane which thieves used to escape).We walked into the lane until I looked back to see something and gasped for breath. I was motionless for a minute as I could not see the point where we started nor our destination. The ambiguity of the place and the fear that engulfed our minds was a thrilling one. After a 7 minute long walk of uncertainty, we finally reached the other end. Wiping the sweat off our forehead we took a sigh of relief and laughed it out.