my SCHOOL life

MY SCHOOL LIFE

Sunday,July 15,2005.

hie,

it's been a year and more since our last day at school.Ya it's 'bout 5 months more than a yr,to be specific.February it was. Our last day at school.our very last day of school-life,our very defining moment of life when we face the world outside our small domain.And YES it WAS the very last day of our notoriety,our superiority,our togetherness(it were!!).Just those days did not last,but in the memories.They still tickle every nook & cons of us.
THE CENTRAL MODERN SCHOOL(barasat branch)
We have been studying(most of us) here for atleast 12 long long years,a few are studying for 14 yrs.,even.Every minutest corner of the school has been a part of our life,our growin up.The ground,where we not only played but went to whenever we had a conflict within us,the ground where we fell in-numerous times,with which we had the memories of so many bruises,that rare cut in the hand,that torn pant...But still it was the ground,OUR GROUND.The school building had it's attraction too,how small it may be,how congested the classes may be but we can still remember every single detail,& wud probably remember always ,'coz it's where we grew up,it's what is called a home away from home.The care of the ayah,especially Renu masi, even though she was so rough,of buri masi,of duttapukur masi,they still move in flesh and blood before our eyes.
And a few teachers,probably there are (& must be) more to whom we wud always be greatful.Head misstress(Bharti Sharma),Lila Miss,Aindrilla Miss,Satabdi Miss,Bhaswati Miss,Anita Miss,Sathi Miss,Sujata Bose Miss,Soma Miss,Miss Sarkar(she was our class teacher when we were at cl.1),Saha Miss,Piyali Miss,Suparna Miss,Mou Miss,Indrani Miss,Agnes Miss(though I never did any class under her),Rumi Miss(neither did she take any of our class,Comm.teacher)................
And a few friends who have been very close to me at some pt.(or even still now) of my life.Suman(Banglu) has been my friend for the longest time,even now.Other friends from class 1(studied from Nursery) are still very good,but reln. with Suman has been at a diff. level.And we have been friends for the FOURTEENTH YEAR!!!!Then there's Abhishek Roy(from the same class),Debdip Biswas(cl.3,no more connection,had left at cl.4),DEBRAJ ROY(cl.6,but we have been close from 7)[but we don't have any connection now,nevertheless i don't regret b'coz the happy moments we have shared will last 4 our life-time,atleast Mine],Twariq Elahi Al Quraishi(from cl.1,st. of TCMS from Nursery),Biswajit Ghosh(cl.6,broken,meagre contact),Priyanka Dutta(cl.9,very few contact but friendship is still intact[studyiing together from cl.6],very good understanding btn. us),Swati Saha(cl.9,but became closer from cl.11,very good friendship).I deliberately leave Avishek Bhandari,not because of anything else but 'coz we became closer friends from cl.11 when he was studying in another school(St. Xavier's)(we have been friend from cl.7).
I still Remember the first time I had gone to ""The Central Modern School"",for Admission Test.I had adm. test in two schools on that day.TCMS & Kalyani Public School.I don't remember anything else But there was a Qn. relating to Kites.I never knew That This School Is going to become an inseparable part of my LIFE.In class 5,I was to be admitted to another boarding school,but finally they called off the exam and changed venue to Bombay/Delhi.Probably that was Fate in the making.
Though it was not any of those HIGH PROFILE schools,nor even a very good school,but to me it's the best school i have ever seen.B'coz nowhere have I seen such friendly atmosphere,such a close teacer-student relnship,we were like their child & a few teachers,later in life, were like our very own sisters.Nowhere else is the st.'s opinion given more importance,nowhere is student life conceived as more of merry-making than mere studies.We were taught well,but effort was more on story telling methods than the force-feeding way,atleast till class Four.After cl. 4,the teaching went on to be degrading,but still there were those few teachers who by their infinite knowledge & daunting zeal wud make us forget all these worries.Even our Head-mistress had been absent only for 3 days!!(as I remember) till class 11,and that too starting from 1,this was the love she had for teaching.Only in class 12 did she take around 2-3 weeks holiday due to very poor health and pain in the leg.She was then replaced,temporarily,by her sister,Meena Miss.She was the librarian all through these years.Only when she was the HM could I know her real nature,I had a false notion that she was too rough and misbehaved.But those 2-3 weeks opened my eyes to a diff. Meena Miss,a loving & caring,soft from inside women who wud not allow anybody to loose hope.Her exterior only protected her inner soft Heart.
And how can i forget those chats standing outside the school and entering school just as the bell was to ring,even the road,the local people,the sweet shop selling our fav. jeeb-e goja(a form of fry that's sweet to taste,mainly sold in PURI,as it is the offering made to Lord Jagannath),Aachaar walaah,Jhalmuriwalaah...All these seem to be an integral part of the school.It was a diff life and now that we can have no more of it we miss it the more,the more,the more.Sometimes I feel had we never grown,had our school-life never came to an end,had we still been the same notorious gang,had we the teachers at their wit's end,Oh!what a life that wud have been.But after all,nothing stays for long.And yeah,that's the stark truth.

How I miss those golden days,if we could have all the friend's together at the school and we could enjoy the whole day as we wished without any bars or whatsoever.A day to relinquish all the happy moments that was part of our school life.Just ONE day wud then have seemed to be a life-time,a life might that day itself wud have been.It's not that I don't have contacts with those friends but still a few keep missing.Their,however small it may be, part in our life is felt only when we miss them.
How I miss Debraj,Debdip,Jumun,Sonu,Dipendra,Dipendu,Aparajita,Parijat,Aditi,Meenakshi,PriyankaChatterjee,Nafisa,Anil, Subhadeep(both,Sc.+Comm.),our group of Twelve(class) enjoying together{Anirban,Suman,Twariq,Suman(Banglu), Swapnendu,Kaustab,Baudhayan,Dibyajit,Dipendu,Swati,Rituparna,Promita,Santanu,Sumon(Joga)& me}.
Ahhh!It sucks like hell !!


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