Remembering my school - Shree Jain Vidyalaya

"Where to Sir?" Nothing surprising when the Taxi driver asked us this question. Usually we take a bus to school but that day was different. Getting late was not our choice neither did we feel happy about. That was the fear installed in us by our school that force us to reach the school before time. Even a minute late was considered unforgiven. Hence me and my 2 friends decided to take a taxi. "Take us to Jain school in Barabazar" we replied. As it was just 6.25 AM in the morning, Taxi was ready for its first trip and road was rather empty, so 5 mins was more than enough for us to cover those 5 kms to school.
"Jain school?!? Where is that?" asked the driver
"That school after Tea Board office , don't you know that?" said one of my friend
"Oh! are you saying about Shree Jain Vidyalaya?"
"Yes, yes that only"
"Sir, don't you feel proud to pronounce your scool's name properly? I have heard that that school have taught to many greats, the teachers are of high quality and they produce many talented and rank holders in state and as well as in the country?"
We couldn't utter a word in embarassment. That day I understood that lesson can be taught by anyone, you just need to be ready for that.

Since I have already stated my school's name, yes it is Shree Jain Vidyalaya, I would like to say something about it. Well, ofcourse it is of high standards. The percentage of first division is about 80% of total students. To enter into 11th standard was itself an achievment on my part. The teachers always said that "2 Ps" are famous in this school, one is Padhai(studies) and the other is pitai(punishment). They believed in "spare the rod, spoil the child" concept. That was 7 years ago, I don't know how the school behaves now. To me that was good. The students always studied out of their interest and high ambition so no case of "pitai". I took a lot of pride in my school's library. It was full of all kinds of book. In those days no friend of mine from other school ever said anything about their school's library that could make me believe that they had a better library than mine.

2 years was well spent in that school. I never went back for 4 years after class12 even though I always remembered them. I would often recommend it the young talented students. 4 years on after clearing my Higher Secondary exams there was a urge in the students of our batch to meet up again with the teachers, a kind of re-union. Not of a grand type but yes we did meet with a few handfull of us and no teacher. Nevertheless it was experience of reliving that part of school life that had a huge contribution of making us what we are today.

some of the few mates after 4 years of re union