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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