LAST DAYS OF SCHOOL - MEMORIES TO CHERISH (#2)

Ah! How could one forget the physics lectures of Sujata mam? She used to teach us from a SSC textbook, for no one to understand this; she had covered the book with a newspaper. We used to think that it was some very effective IGCSE book until we could peep in at the contents and the name of the book. She told us that there was not much theory in physics. All we had to do to master the physics subject was to solve some petty sums [from the SSC book].

The next one, when Anand, a new student from SM Shetty high school, asked Biji mam, “mam, what is contraception?” with utmost innocence in his voice and his expressions. Mam was actually teaching population that time and we were learning about the population problem in LEDCs. This word was uttered my mam just once when he raised his hand solemnly as if to ask a doubt. All of us burst in a big laughter. And we laughed because we knew what it meant.