Emissary of the latest DU trends bears an infelicitous fetish with the burning tobacco. So what about the so called smoke free zone messages fixed outside the colleges? Find out with me… 

Honking through the busy streets of the Delhi University campus and making my way towards the Delhi School of Economics, I struggled with my car to somehow adjust in the mad rush. While waiting for autowala to move, I ran my eyeballs for a quick glimpse of the place. And here I was- Big boards and hoardings prohibiting smoking and use of tobacco in the vicinity seemed to be standing with pride. I couldn’t escape my quick glance. By merely looking at these big pieces of declarations, any non-DUite would feel as to how much the university is considerate for its students. But those who belong to the university know the real story behind the scene.                                                  
  

THE STORY BEGINS…
                                Swaying away to the tunes of ‘Sutta’ and ‘Dum maro dum’ which have almost become like national anthems for most of us; students can be seen smoking away their joys or sorrows in the air. Already declared a smoke-free zone almost two years back, the campus is not ready to ‘chuck the butt’ yet. Sitting by the support of a ‘NO-SMOKING’ board and chilling out with the burning poison, the GEN-Y often spends a big part of their life dying slowly. “All my friends smoke and to your surprise, their smoking zone is under the billboard ‘No Smoking’ zone. To me, these boards hardly worked with the mind-set of a young smoker” says, Farah Sheikh, student, Delhi University.

DISCOVERY OF A SUTTA POINT
                                                    Smoking inside the college premise may lead to fine or certain repercussions which may even lead to rustication. The young smokers are ultimately compelled to head out to a secret hangout zone to toy with the grey smoke. Each college has its personal, unofficially official sutta point so to say, which contributes to the increasing popularity of these hideouts.
Being at the Sutta Point in itself, is a matter of honour for some as you may be counted amongst the studs of your college, as explained by many. Sutta points also give ample opportunities for not attending lectures as sometimes you can be out with your joints and sometimes at home because of having those. Also, being a part of the regular visitors to the Sutta point can make you understand the problem of global warming much better than the non-smokers as mocked by some active debaters and future parliamentarians.
The marijuana generation bickers away that Sutta points aren’t all that bad too, as they may have a pivotal role in bringing about a thin ‘you’ for all those fatsoes who revel in the blowing up of soot. The constant burning up of the tube will definitely lead you to wither away slowly and you may find yourself contesting for the next MR/MS fuchha....Kudos to your pipe! One may also espy that a cig leaves a smoky essence to one’s wear which no one wants to share specially with parents. So as they say every problem is born with a solution, one can go in for a pack of chewing-gums, which ultimately leads to a pearly white denture too! (*wink*)

AT THE END…
             Yeah! Why not, it’s not atrocious at all…in fact it adds onto the cool quotient. When that process of withering away starts, you can surely be amongst the MR/MS Watch Out Circle contestants but only to lose out on those who don’t have sunken eyes or a lack-luster face which by then will have become your beauty spots. Also, your girlfriend might even ditch you because you’ve got bad, well not bad, worse blackish yellow teeth which surely no gum can cure. You might also feel like a loser but don’t dishearten my friend, after all…who knows being a looser too, might become a ‘cool’ status like your current smoking at sutta point,  isn’t it?