NOVEL

Unlike in our earlier school, in this school the chowkidar, Ganpat Gowala, would carry the notices from one class to another which the teachers would read out to the students and after that they would sign on it

Even before the news papers arrived people knew about it through the Anchalik Batori of Arun Das form Akashvani Guwahati and also from Lily Das Malik from Delhi. The voice of Lily Das Malik was so authoritative

If honour had to ever honour a soul, Doury would be a frontrunner. I know you would not have heard much of it in media or the stories floating around. It is but a norm, that the vanquished and the dead are either martyrs or villains.

Our Scout note books were filled with so many things- pledge of the Boys Scout, duty of a boy scout, objective of a boy scout, determination of a boy scout and many other such great things.

As we came to class VI, our objective of life was to join either NCC or Boys Scout. The boys with roll numbers one Jaideep, roll number two Durlabh and also roll numbers three, four, five and six and even nine and eleven were all in

An overturned earthen pot! That’s what Ghatzy’s gleaming bald head looked like. His name was a dig at that from an old Sanskrit word.

The Independence and the Republic Days were the two other big days of the school. The biggest ambition we had was to stand as NCC or Boys Scout cadets on those two days. It was exceptionally attractive

There is the glitz and glamour of a multi-billion-dollar corporate conglomerate. And there are the stark dark hidden underbelly multi-billion-dollar businesses that help a lot of these glitzy corporate conglomerates run

Lambs for slaughter to save the so-called lions have been practiced from times immemorial. But when lions offer themselves for slaughter, for the larger good, that perhaps qualify to be an epitome for sacrifice

In the high school we had classes from class five to class ten. And there were three major festivals in the school- Republic Day, followed by Saraswati Puja and after a long while, followed by the Independence Day.