Nawazuddin Siddiqui speaks at Youth Conference in SRCC, Delhi

But, the victor carries on' was the theme of the two-day Youth Conference recently held at SRCC, brought to you by the Times of India.
Some of the celebrities who had been invited to share their stories with the students started by joking about how being invited to speak at the 100% cut-off college, where they couldn't have gotten admission, is a sign of victory .As Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who was one of the invitees, walked towards the stage, students chanted 'Sabka badla lega re tera Faisal' and 'Shaandaar, zabardast, zindabaad'. He gave a slightly embarrassed smile and said, "Fumble-wumble ho jaate hain mujhse ­ thoda sa nervous ho jaata hun main bahut educated logon ke saamne."
WORLD RECORD HOLDER
Benny Prasad, who made a travelling world record after being told by doctors that he would die at the age of 16, said, "So, students who do well study at SRCC. And students who don't do well speak at SRCC." And even author Varun Agarwal used "I am now being invited to speak at SRCC" to establish that it's a victory .
DECODING THE DELHI BOY
The image of the archetypal Delhi boy , gender notions in the NCR and the music consumption trends in the city were some of the other topics brought up. Stand-up comic Abish Mathew said, "Delhi guys are misunderstood they are not weird or creepy. They are f***ing weird and f***ing creepy . And for the record, no, SRCC is not LSR's brother. And the difference between the two colleges is that the girls' hostel curfew at LSR is not a joke.At SRCC, it's like, "Accha 7 pm is too early? Let's make it 8 pm. We are liberal." Cricketer Kapil Dev, while answering the question of a Shaheed Bhagat Singh College student, congratulated him for being a part of the college whose students came to the rescue of an Uzbec woman in Malviya Nagar. But Mathew added, "When I read about those Malviya Nagar boys, I was happy for a second. But then I looked at their faces, and I was like, "Nahin bhai, kuch nahin pata."
WE'RE STILL IN DELHI
Taking a dig at how soon anti-feminist jokes and comments in any performance at DU make way to social media, stand-up comic Biswa Kalyan Rath, after cracking multiple jokes where he imitated women and referred to female body parts, said, "But I really respect women, you know.Women are wonderful, let's have a round of applause for women. Basically , please ja kar blog matt likhna ki Biswasexist hai." Talking about how the current generation is better placed than the previous generations in terms of gender equality, Sona Mohapatra asked the students, "Is DU this very happy place no body letches at girls?" And even as a majority of the students shouted `yes' in response, Vijay Nair, added, Abish "No, we're still Mathew in Delhi."
YOU GUYS WANT NANGA NAACH
Hard Kaur and Nikhil D'Souza were also invited along with Sona and Vijay to be a part of the panel to discuss artistes making independent music.Picking up from Sona's advice to the students ­ be more demanding of the youth icons in stead of accepting the same icons like Katrina Kaif every time just because they look good ­ Hard Kaur said, "Rap was supposed to be about expressing your pain, but in Bollywood, rap is just about falling in love with gangsters. I hear so many rappers who just sound like Honey Singh. My mom tells me, "Ab toh tu Hard Kaur bann gayi, paise bhi kama liye. Ab toh real hip hop kar le?' And I'm like, "Banake kisko sunaun? You guys want nanga naach."
IS SPEAKING IN HINDI DOWNMARKET?
Sona also said, "When I first came to Bollywood, I felt like a dhobhi ka kutta ­Bollywood wouldn't accept me because I was perceived as niche and arty. Indie didn't accept me because they said Hindi music is considered down-market.“ She asked students, "Hindi mein baat karun toh down-market lagta hai kya?"
GENIUSES ARE ONE IN A BATCH
Arunabh Kumar, founder of Qtiyapa, also shared tales about tricking his way into becoming an AD for Main Hoon Na and about hanging out at the IIT Kharagpur campus.When a student asked him if dropping out is a good option, he said, "I don't know. I value education. I would have been a moron without my degree. Dropping out is not always cool. Geniuses are one in a batch."