I don’t understand how a lot sense I’m making; the nostalgia is absolutely overwhelming,” says actor-musician Moses Koul aka Sharan Gujral, from the online collection Class, as he takes a stroll by the corridors of his alma mater, Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College.
Affectionately known as ‘Roses with an M’, Koul vividly remembers “running across these very corridors” to make it in time for the morning lectures. The Economics (Hons) graduate recollects, “I originally had a love affair with physics and mathematics, but economics became an arranged marriage of sorts for me, that I later came to love. One of the reasons I didn’t choose physics was because my father told me that I would not have time for anything else. And that turned out to be true. The science kids used to out of labs and class after 5pm!”
A go to down reminiscence lane is incomplete with out relishing one’s favorite meals from the school cafe. Biting right into a minced cutlet, Koul says, “I don’t remember it being this delicious!” He then leads the best way to the science block, passing by the spot the place a kiosk used to promote samosas and extra. “The gentleman running the kiosk passed away a few years ago; he was an institution. The kiosk was permanently closed after that,” he tells us.
Ask Koul in regards to the school’s secret membership, Woodhouse Society, and he coyly responds, “I can neither confirm nor deny whether I was a part of it. I may have left a secret mark in the college at a spot… It has been painted over now, but underneath you can see something green and interesting!”
All this whereas, Koul is surrounded by the present batch of scholars on the school, asking for autographs, footage, hoping for a fast tête-à-tête. Calling it surreal, Koul shares, “It’s incredible — the kind of love people are showering on me. It’s really kind of my juniors to meet me here. I hope they call me as an alumni for an event!”
Much like everybody else, Koul feels his school years performed an enormous position in shaping him into the sort of individual he’s in the present day. “I think, in college, you are shopping for personalities. St. Stephen’s can be very insular. But within this environment, you get to meet so many people with different points of view. This exploration, this understanding — I think that’s what formed the core of my personality. And I used those experiences to channel my energy into Sharan.”
On that be aware, Koul is fast so as to add that his experiences as a university pupil have been far faraway from that of the wealthy, confused and troubled Sharan. “I am not that dark in real life… Everyone who meets me is like, ‘Wow, you’re not that dark, troubled person’.”
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