The original Khan Market Gang | The Indian Express

The original Khan Market Gang | The Indian Express

Written by Somya Lakhani |Updated: June 10, 2019 1:12:18 am

The original Khan Market Gang

Long before the epithet was made a topic of debate by the PM, a bunch of teenagers ruled the roost in the now controversial area.

It took me 16 years and a one-liner by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept that I am, in fact, the OG (original gangster) of Khan Market, since my beloved school, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is only a five-minute walk from there.

Damn, it feels good to be a gangster. At least in retrospect. It was on a winter afternoon in 2003 when, unwittingly, I joined a gang — one that swindled innocent juniors of their pocket money and squandered them on gol-gappas. The gang members — teenagers, all of us — dressed in rust sweaters and grey skirts and trousers, operated from the confines of a noisy school canteen, past the sand pit in the junior school and all the way to the notorious Khan Market.