Džakarta

(Place, tavern, firm, Yugoslavia)

A tavern in Novi Beograd, (now) officially called „Tošin bunar“ (Toša's well) by the street where it is, which is just about the oldest old street on that edge of Zemun. However, nobody ever called it by official name, it's one of those places which could be officially renamed twenty times and it would still be called by its nickname, which is Džakarta (Jakarta).

The reason for this is that right across the street there's the student dormitories, the whole Studentski grad (students' town), where one of the buildings (or the whole compound?) is called Patris Lumumba. Check the non-aligned and decolonization history. So geographically it was just the right place for all those non-aligned students to gather, from all over South Asia, non-north America, Africa and Arab countries. Hence the nickname.

Even today. I once saw a perfect african beauty there, much more beautiful than any I saw in the US.

I was possibly there a few times while dad was studying, having met some fulltime colleague to borrow a book or a skripta, whatever. Not that a deja vu hit me strongly when I dropped in there again in this century, only a bit.

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Mentions: 01-V-2011., 13-IX-2014., 23-XI-2014., 22-VIII-2015., 18-III-2021., in serbian