The music takes me back to the assembly ground, girls and boys clad in the white and navy blue uniform, aligned in separate lines - classified into 4 houses - Raman, Tagore, Bapu and Vivekananda. Little Deep hated the torture of standing in the scorching sun and counted impatiently whenever the ordeal got extended. Instantly the embarrassing events I can recollect related to assembly are ...
(1). Being detained in the assembly ground with 2 other fellow criminals in 4th standard for making paper air craft’s
(2). Singing one extra verse of "hum honge kamyaab ek din" in all its glory, when rest of the assembly had finished and there was pin drop silence - (pallavi padi kazhinjaal anu pallavi padenam ennu enikku nirbandam aayirunnu...) being a music enthusiast was never easy.
Nevertheless, if I get few goose bumps & a drop of tear welling up in my eyes listening to the national anthem, I can proudly give credits to the upbringing we had in Kendriya Vidyalaya. The prayer song of "Asathoma sadgamaya....daya kar daan vidya ka" would be followed by pledge, news, announcements, patriotic song, a demo speech by late Kurup sir and then national anthem on a standard day... on Mondays the navy blue part of the uniform was replaced by whites and we had to attend mass PT sessions...forced drill.
The best period, without doubt, was games period (i was not a great sports guy then, but loved enjoying the fresh air and roaming around and discovering stuff– and towards high school, all sports I can remember is being a football defender having chit chats with goalie Mani and may be Harish and some failed volleyball shoots ...
I liked all Language subjects which took me to fantasy worlds (except Appukuttan sir`s Sanskrit - "Ekasmin vane ekaha crouncha mithunaha asthi??....".okies termite strikes...aham gachami....). Unlike most others I loved Art period, for that always seemed the long term career plan for little Deep...and so art sir Mr.Vasanthan was a role model then...No wonder I related well to some scenes in the movie "taare zameen par".
There were few teachers whom I remember with nostalgia - Shobha miss (Primary English), Shyamala madam (High school English), Gopalakrshnan sir (History), Cicy ma'm (Biology)...to name a few and then there were the ones who stirs mixed feelings (dominantly horror) - Rajamma teacher(Primary maths), Thankachi ma'm (High school math) who was soo sharp to pin point the restless lot esp. Roy Sebastians "viru viruppu" - & selected few of us got to sit adjacent to the teacher...honors for laughing at a pals joke :D…(incidentally all happen to be mathematics teachers, so do forgive my arrogance, ( I had an exclusive relationship with math - and this is beyond scope of this blog - I hated that subject, especially after primary – and see, my intuitions were right...I never found any use for integration, differentiation, complex numbers or series...etc in my entire career - thankfully we have calculators and excel for everything else)
There were few teachers whom I remember with nostalgia - Shobha miss (Primary English), Shyamala madam (High school English), Gopalakrshnan sir (History), Cicy ma'm (Biology)...to name a few and then there were the ones who stirs mixed feelings (dominantly horror) - Rajamma teacher(Primary maths), Thankachi ma'm (High school math) who was soo sharp to pin point the restless lot esp. Roy Sebastians "viru viruppu" - & selected few of us got to sit adjacent to the teacher...honors for laughing at a pals joke :D…(incidentally all happen to be mathematics teachers, so do forgive my arrogance, ( I had an exclusive relationship with math - and this is beyond scope of this blog - I hated that subject, especially after primary – and see, my intuitions were right...I never found any use for integration, differentiation, complex numbers or series...etc in my entire career - thankfully we have calculators and excel for everything else)
As little kids, few of us used to make "sets" and I remember our set including Roy, Anand, Krishnakumar etc scurrying around the toilet block and the huge wild chiku tree near the primary Assembly ground after lunch break - some tom and jerry game. unit tests, half yearly exams, board exams all doesn’t create much feelings now, but it was not the case then...the relief of last day of exams and the ecstacy of embracing the anticipated holidays are beyond words - we used to play holi with the remaining ink in the fountain pens on the white shirts of buddies or have a game of cricket with the exam pad, a paper ball and 3 lines on some wall.
Hey so many events and faces are surfacing and this would get flooded - Namboodiri sirs tuitions (laughter club) & Apparao’s sirs IIT standard tuition's (guess Ayaskanth was the only guy who benefited), class bullies, sarcastic and instant jokes of Roy, Unnikrishnan, Prakash etc..ever enthusiastic sujith who used to cajole me to give touch ups to our raman house display stuff...the times with Roy, PP n Chethan in class - the guy sitting at the edge of the bench usually ended up as a projectile at unexpected moments...couple of unsaid crushes and the associated innocent romantic musings, Sports days, annual days, CCA meetings, the journey to and fro & times in Marian college, Kottayam for KV Youth festival, Fandango festivals at Kovalom, the journeys in crowded KSRTC buses or CISF buses, cartoon strips passed during class hours, The library ma’m and her books – tinkles, amar chitrakadhas, Enid blyton, Hardy boys.... Alice madams "say, whatever it is"...combined studies with Dennis, Vishak palan, Kiran, Hilarious times spent in making plaster of paris model of a volcano and some other thermocol model at Karthik's house. nausea inducing mice dissections in bio lab, unplanned experiments in Chemistry labs – burettes , pippetes, test tubes, H2SO4..the progress cards and the tensions of getting it signed...shared lunches..the nick names we called each others and teachers...The walks back to home with Rajesh & Vandana during primary days (will try to update from time to time to include all the missing characters...)
Dedicating this piece of blog to all the teachers who tried their best to help us understand the world better, tolerating our tantrums and struggles & to all the friendships made, mended, broken, forgotten during those innocuous days spent at KV Pattom....probably there were few painful and bitter events too, unjustified then - but smile inducing now...but then do I bother to spoil the euphoria of selective nostalgia :)...no ways...be it any mind numbing derivation, we always had dusters to clean up the black board!!!
Some class photographs :
http://picasaweb.google.com/domainDeep/GrowingUpInKendriyaVidyalaya#
School Website :
http://www.kvpattom.nic.in/
Hey so many events and faces are surfacing and this would get flooded - Namboodiri sirs tuitions (laughter club) & Apparao’s sirs IIT standard tuition's (guess Ayaskanth was the only guy who benefited), class bullies, sarcastic and instant jokes of Roy, Unnikrishnan, Prakash etc..ever enthusiastic sujith who used to cajole me to give touch ups to our raman house display stuff...the times with Roy, PP n Chethan in class - the guy sitting at the edge of the bench usually ended up as a projectile at unexpected moments...couple of unsaid crushes and the associated innocent romantic musings, Sports days, annual days, CCA meetings, the journey to and fro & times in Marian college, Kottayam for KV Youth festival, Fandango festivals at Kovalom, the journeys in crowded KSRTC buses or CISF buses, cartoon strips passed during class hours, The library ma’m and her books – tinkles, amar chitrakadhas, Enid blyton, Hardy boys.... Alice madams "say, whatever it is"...combined studies with Dennis, Vishak palan, Kiran, Hilarious times spent in making plaster of paris model of a volcano and some other thermocol model at Karthik's house. nausea inducing mice dissections in bio lab, unplanned experiments in Chemistry labs – burettes , pippetes, test tubes, H2SO4..the progress cards and the tensions of getting it signed...shared lunches..the nick names we called each others and teachers...The walks back to home with Rajesh & Vandana during primary days (will try to update from time to time to include all the missing characters...)
Dedicating this piece of blog to all the teachers who tried their best to help us understand the world better, tolerating our tantrums and struggles & to all the friendships made, mended, broken, forgotten during those innocuous days spent at KV Pattom....probably there were few painful and bitter events too, unjustified then - but smile inducing now...but then do I bother to spoil the euphoria of selective nostalgia :)...no ways...be it any mind numbing derivation, we always had dusters to clean up the black board!!!
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Some class photographs :
http://picasaweb.google.com/domainDeep/GrowingUpInKendriyaVidyalaya#
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School Website :
http://www.kvpattom.nic.in/
2 comments:
Dear Deep
A slender guy with elan and suttleness of an artist but such a blog just puts another tinge to image I carry about you.
Thanks bro, though short, time (3 years) with you guys where terrific. thanks for walking us through those corridors again.
God Bless You
Dennis Varghese George
you joined KV before my birth and left the school when I joined the 1st std!I was there for the next 12 years.. my story starts from 1997! iam able to relate to most of the characters and incidents ..thank you for rekindling the memories ! KV was truly a beautiful experience!
-Sujit AS
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