Munirka
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Munirka is an urban village, a commercial market and a middle-class residential colony located in South Delhi, India. The main entrance to it is located on Outer Ring Road,Delhi, while the back of the colony is located directly across from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and many university students live here. While the front is a bustling market, the serpentine streets inside are home to a vibrant multi-cultural cosmos--people from all over India have found a home here, or cheap accommodation at the very least. Basically home to the Parjapati, Muslim, Kachwaha, Virat, Harijan and Jat community (particularly of the Tokas clan, though there are some of the Rathee clan also), the Indian Olympian swimmer, and Asian Games medallist Khazan Singh Tokas hailed from here.[citation needed]. Basically Munirka is small India even small world you will find here people from all over india and even world. A splendid sports complex named after him is set on the southern fringes of the village. This is the ancestral village of Rajat Tokas aka prithviraj chauhan[citation needed] in the eponymous television serial. Currently Munirka is a good area to settle down specially for new middle-class immigrants to Delhi whether students or professionals. Culturally, Munirka is not a Jat dominated community any longer, although Jats are the majority of the permanent residents and property-owners here. However, politically and economically it still is a Jat-dominated locality.
It is by far one of the strangest and most cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in the world. Within the few square kilometres that is its area, at least a 100 thousand or 1 lakh people, reside. This derives from Munirka's proximity to Jawaharlal Nehru University and its location on the Outer Ring Road, which makes easy transport to and from many business centres of Delhi. One can find people from every single province in India here, and eateries and restaurants catering to their palette as well. There is a Korean church, a Sikh temple, and a mosque other than the Baba Gangnath temple, which houses the patron deity of the village, and of many other urbanised villages, especially of the Tokas in the region. People of at least four races - Mongoloid, Caucasian (both European and and north Indian), Negroid and Dravidian can be found resident in the community at any given point of time. Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Japanis, Koreans, Bangladeshis, Nepalis, Almanis or Germans, French, Swedes, Iranis, Spaniards, Sri Lankans, Thais, British and Americans amongst other nationalities can be found resident here. At the same time one can find donkeys carrying construction and other heavy material in the village owing to its narrow streets. It is home to revolutionaries of both the right and the left, UPSC aspirants, students, Dalit messiahs, call centre workers, software engineers, lawyers, failed messiahs, drug-dealers, prostitutes, and generally everyone under the sun. It is home to a lot of people who have just shifted to Delhi from somewhere in India, like many other areas of such type, and who then move on after staying here for some years to more respectable and middle-class high rise apartment-like residential areas. Nobody, not even the Jats, wants to stay in Munirka forever. It is a halfway house. Dostoevesky could have written a book here, for so many lives are made and unmade in Munirka. It is one of the few non-elite parts of Delhi where one can see women wearing shorts and spaghetti straps at any point of time in the summer.
It is a very old village--complete with a smattering of Lodi-era monuments--now absorbed by the relentless expansion of Delhi, which has both changed and threatened the very culture of the pre-urban communities of the Delhi region - Gujar, Ahir or Jat. There is a baoli (step well), a Lodi structure and a small saiyid (a small mazaar-like shrine) preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India in the park across the Outer Ring Road in RK Puram. Elder residents of Munirka can still be found to offer a jot (incense on a stick; Hindi jyot), testifying to the syncretic cultural history of the region. Elder Jat people of the Delhi region testify to Munirka being one of the most beautiful villages in the region till well into the 1970s, being surrounded by forest with wolf, jackal and nilgai on at least two sides, and a bani (woods), a jangal (forest) beyond that and a jhod (pond) on the west. This part of the village has given to the DDA sports complex, and the DTC Bus Depot. Further to the west Basant Lok and Vasant Vihar has been built on agrarian land which was acquired by the Delhi government from Munirka and Basant villages. To the north R.K. Puram has also been built on such land. One can see the Qutub Minar from parts of Munirka. It is also on the path of planes landing at the Delhi airport and the drone of planes is a part of all telephone conversations in Munirka.
Middle-class and more respectable residential colonies of Delhi like Munirka DDA Enclave and Munirka SFS are also adjacent to the village. On the outer edge of Munirka, on the Outer Ring Road lies a huge open market--very typical of open-air markets found in India. The streets are numbered alphabetically, such as BA, BC, BB, BA, etc.
Munirka is the place where no community is dominating here whole india lives ,here in munirka you can get house ranges from rs2000-20000,............and the most important thing of this munirka is FIITJEE HOSTEL
