My First Trip To DARYAGANJ..........drumroll please!!!!!!

Hey there so this is a post id like to dedicate to the absolutely wonderful day I had yesterday when Andy and I went to old delhi.......DARYAGANJ to be specific, a place which i atlesast have had very little exposure too.....EXCEPT for chandni chowk, the wild eid rush and of course the king of mughlai gastronomy KARIMS(Nizams rocks too by the way!!!!!).......Bear with me ppl. this was a very interesting TRIP!!!!!

Sooo i got this call from Andy day before yesterday and he was like DUDE lets go to this SUNDAY book sale which takes place where books are DIRT cheap......I being a BOOK FANATIC obviously agreed......The plan was to meet up at JHANDEWALAN station!!!!! JHANDEWALAN......hmmmmmmm i was like why do we get off at jhandewalan to go to OLD DELHI. Anyways Andy planned the trip...so he was THE BOSS.....we didnt deviate much from our target except for an additional TEN BUCKS which we lost to a very ecstatic AUTO-WALA with a couple of front teeth missing and who was very very eager to tell us about an important delivery of blankets(??????) he had to deliver in NOIDA.......ANyways he was a nice guy and at least smiled when we gave him the money........oh he also said THANK YOU.......doesnt happen nowadays DOES IT???????

So there we were in the middle of OLD DELHI....a place which both of us would surely have never ventured into while in SCHOOL.....coz our cojones werent strong enough!!!!!! As far as we were concerned it couldve been DEAD mans land...BUT we were two WEIRD dudes on a missin.....TO GET THE MAXIMUM NO. OF BOOKS with the minimum amt. of BALANCE(CHEAP.....i know!!!! but hey i dont care about what u may feel)

All i knew about DARYAGANJ was that you could buy COURSE materials of possibly all INSTITUTES like FIIT JEE, VIDYAMANDIR etc. etc. etc. Mind you this info was given by my very unfriendly FIIT JEE friends.........So i was excpecting hawkers screamin "VIDYAMANDIR PHYSICS......50% off, bas aaj ke liye......jaldi aaiye"........BUT what i saw amazed me......wait maybe AMAZED is too small a word......................................

Not only were ppl. selling VMC, SRI CHAITANYA material.....but everything from PAULO COELHO to TOM CLANCY; FREDERICK FORSEYTH to CHETAN BHAGAT.....the place was a madhouse.....honestly at one point i felt so dizzy just going through all the books.....NO CROSSWORD, LANDMARK....or any other bookstore Ive been too has SOOOOOO many books.........I bet these guys got THE WHITE TIGER before it hit major retail bookstores....and they were offering a NICE CRISP 100 Rs. DISCOUNT TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOD this was my kinda place.......i felt at home.....HONESTLY!!!!!!

I was supposed to help Andy in buying a couple of good books....but i was picking up every other book and telling him it was good....AND TRUST ME THEY WERE!!!! Ive been tryin to find a copy of The Hunt FOr Red October by Tom Clancy for quite some time and i found a nice old 1970something edition with sepia pages and a TORN COver.....but heck i found it!!!

That place is discount heaven but ya you really need to search to get the perfect deal and also the book you want, in a READABLE condition!!!!! Anyways time wasnt much of a constraint for us 2 VELAS...or is that only one...ANYWAYS!!!!! We ended up buying about 4 or 5 books at DIRT CHEAP PRICES............can u believe i got a perfect copy of BLACK HAWK DOWN for just 20 bucks......TWO ZERO only!!!!!!! I wouldve bought the whole street if i had cash..........

Oh just when we were getting tired of books we found a guy who was sending LPs in perfect condition. The records even had the plastic covering on them........NEVER BEEN USED and discarded by some rich bloke who just got the latest SONY HI-FI system!!!!!! both of us wanted to put up some records in our room just for decor. purposes and boy were we pumped.....the guy(who had the yellowest teeth and widest smile i had ever seen.....NOT A NICE COMBO......TRUST ME!!!!!) gave us 6 records for 80 bucks and one LP in CHANDNI CHOWK costs 150 bucks!!!!! EUTOPIA...................WHIPEEEEEEEE

I know most of the ppl reading this have already been there, done that. BUT hey it was a revelation for both of us......IT was the first time we had gone PIRATED BOOK shopping and somehow im feeling it wont be the last............WINK
:-):-) ;-)


@g@memnon


P.S. i am not a big fan of piracy......in fact till now i own only 4 pirated books...THATS about it!!!! BUT HEY im in COLLEGE now..........im a little light on the pocket and ya ive got a hunger to read.........it was the easiest thing to do........................DUNNO why im justifying myself....i hate guilty feelings




P.P.S. OH WHAT THE F!CK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had a ball of a time....thats what matters;-)