II. College Experience; Settling down in Delhi
Delhi
can be a small dot in the great Indian map, but, population wise, it cannot be
undone. With more than a crore population, I was like thrown into the pool to
survive and thus thrive. School of Planning and Architecture, widely known as
SPA, had a hostel campus and college buildings separated by more than 10 kilometers It was Rs.50 away from hostel in New Friend’s Colony to the college
in ITO (Income Tax Office) area in auto-rickshaw While on a train from Howrah
to Delhi, a guy with whom we shared a compartment told us that the college we
are going is deemed like an IIT for architects. It was very motivating and felt
blessed until I saw a single building attached with the oval auditorium, and
that we were told building is the architecture block, and the hostel had a big
single building complex as the student hostel. For such a reputed college, how
can an infrastructure be poor?
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College Building, SPA, at IP estate, New Delhi |
Hostel Block, Taimoor Nagar, New Friend's Colony, Delhi |
We
kept on trying to report to the DAHE back in Bhutan about our situation, but
nothing happened.Finally after staying for 15 days, my friend, Jamyang
succeeded in getting us a flat in the hostel complex. He approached Director,
and that was our third try meeting director and requesting him to attend to our
problem.
Being
in Delhi itself is a big challenge but to be out there with no proper accommodation and least help, that is all together another bigger problem.