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Saby's recollections #1

This is an incident that i remember well enough amongst many others......must have been 1980, it was a Sunday AM study hour after breakfast, if you remember well, Sundays were days of total freedom from 9 am on. So as usual, the study time was generally spent doing nothing substantial... as if life meant anything substantial then more than just fun.

Three of us were made to stand out ...remember the captains would come and sadistically make you stand out for all the talking!!! Hilarious as it may seem today, it wasn't so then. The three were generally famous for wasting time anyways they were Satyabvrat singh, Partha chakravarty and myself. SO we were standing out behind , looking at the vast expanse of the hall where all heads were down seemingly in pursuit of goddess Saraswati. People became a little more serious when someone would spot Claridge coming...he used to live right across the study hall, in the corner house with a green door. So he comes with a cane as usual and saw us as usual, the usual culprits as usual. Something happened that day, maybe a miracle . HE just got fed up and told us that he wont cane us three. What a day...he said you three have to do something for a living, because evidently he was under the impression that nothing much will happen anyways to us three hooligans. So we were made to clean up.

I was given charge of cleaning the status of mother Mary...by the way, that statue could have been over 500 years old, and it was at the back of the room. Partho was told to clean up the Picture of Jesus which was on the left side wall of the study hall, if you were standing out. Also, you will know that before study time we all had to turn towards that archaic picture, with half visible face of god and say some prayer.. cant remember the prayer though.

Study time was over, and i remember myself going right up and cleaning the statue. ( used a ladder i guess). Partha whose brains were in less measure and more of brawn was adept in cleaning up the face of god. ..that's an incident.

Was Alok the captain, I cant remember, most probably you were, for you are still my captain all along in life boss.

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