8 Years. Not a short period of time, when I came here I was in class 10th. I came to this place because my mother got transferred from Sarni – the place where I grew up. My brother was upset when he heard the news that we have to go to Bhopal, and so am I, but I don’t know how I gathered the strength to hide that feeling and instead took it as a positive turn for my life.
Finally we came to Bhopal. I have never lived in an apartment like this before, which have Chetak Bridge in its neighborhood and a workshop in its premises along with a railway line guarding one of its boundaries. This place is completely antithesis to Sarni, to what I like. Still anyhow I avoid all these anomalies of the place and started to live here. One or two days after we shifted my parents took us for admission as already decided my brother got admission in K.V. – 3 the same school in which my mother has been transferred to but since the school was new at that time, they didn’t have any class 10th so my parents took me to K.V. – 1. At K.V. – 1 my first encounter was with Das Gupta madam, who was PGT Physics and also the in charge of admission department. After a long discussion she allotted me section C. Immediately my mother took me to the class. At that time Bio class was going on and Thakur Sir was teaching the students in his peculiar style in which he spoke the words “What and Right” almost 2 times in a sentence. He let me in and had a small chat with my parent. In the meantime I occupied the first bench at extreme left corner. Siddhartha Singh was sitting next to me. That day Praveen Sinha and Sachin Nema were absent. Manu Dixit and Kazim Khan was sitting behind us. Asif Anwar Qureshi was sitting on the first bench directly facing the teacher. Aditya Paudar, Aditya Nigam, Punit Tiwan, Himanshu Pandey and Prateek were sitting behind Asif (that’s what I guess as I didn’t remember exactly). From that day my new life started. During my mathematics tuition I met with Sooraj Prakash. He was also from K.V. – 1 but was in section A.
I have told you about my bio class. Now, it is time to take a look at some other subjects also. Nayak sir taught us Physics, and if someone asks me to describe him in 1 word I would say Totally Cool. He too has a favorite phrase “Hum bata rahe hai na, tum bas yeh kar lo yahi exam me ayega” no matter whether it was in the exam or not. Jasmine Quadir madam was our chemistry teacher, well don’t have much of the memories of her. V.R.S. Chaturvedi sir taught us English and I remembered he published a book on grammar also at that time. One of my favorite teachers was L.R. Sharma sir, he taught us Mathematics. He was an old man very polite, soft spoken and an excellent teacher. Asif used to chat with him like he was chatting with his friend. Our social science teacher wasn’t look social at first glance, she was a disciplined lady who wanted students to work harder and harder always, and was very much concerned with the map thing. We had one more teacher for social science particularly for History; A.K. Jain sir taught us that. He was also a teacher with incredible knowledge of the subject, but sometime he misspelled some of the words which gave us a chance to laugh after his class. Our Hindi teacher was our class teacher also, and like me K.V. – 1 was a new school to her too as at that time she recently been transferred to the school. Rita Chowdhary madam was like a mother to the class, she gave personal attention to every student, listened to their problem always and as we tease our mother often we did the same whenever we weren’t in the mood of studying. Most of the time our class captain Raghu Sharma who was an awesome basketball player brought some serious issue in front of madam and time passed out in debating on that.
Time was passing pretty fast and obviously I was happy from everything which I had achieved so far in this new place, along with my new friends and a totally new life. And like that class 10th passed on.
So now I was in class 11th, a year has passed and now I had many new friends. But it’s time to see some more new faces. Some from our own school but were studying in different sections and some are from other schools. Anshul Rawat, Arnav Malviya, Sooraj Prakash, Ashish Vijayvargiya, Nikhil Jain,Omprakash Rajput, Varun Tyagi, Gaurav Rathore Shivkant Soni, Ankita Singhai, Paridhi Patni, Pallavi Barrange, Aishwarya Singh, Meenal Saxena, Swarna Murthy, Chetna Pandagre, Shaifali Sheemar were few of them who joined the Section B of class 11th along with me and my friends. Anmol Bohre joined our company in 12th class. (With time I might have forgotten many names that were in our class and were my friends).
And after having a class teacher like Rita Chaowdhary madam it’s time to have a strict chemistry teacher Bhavna Jaiswal madam as our class teacher. Well, in reality Bhavna madam is also a polite and gentle lady as my other teachers but she has to be strict in the class. Since my childhood I heard from nearly everyone “10th k baad 11th me bahut dikkat ati hai” why?? I was unaware till that time, but was going to realize the same. It was not actually difficult it was different. Well during this year we had a new set of teachers, Bhavna madam taught us chemistry and every student attended her class attentively because if she found someone not paying attention she said without looking at him/her directly “Beta madam ne apko aisa bataya hai kya??” whatever the case may be she was an excellent teacher. For physics we had Das Gupta madam, ya the same. For mathematics we had Qureshi sir, although most of the students found his style monotonous but he was a dexterous teacher. V.K. Misra sir taught us English, well he was a fan of one of the girls from our class, my school friends knew whom I am talking about. 11th class passed on quickly. In this class Arnav Malviya became a good friend of mine as both of us went K.V. Bairagarh for regional science exhibition. I never realized when I reached class 12th. And I was in such obfuscation till the end of class 12th that I wasn’t able to figure out which was more important school or coaching. Time moved swiftly and we got our farewell from our school.
And today, after a half decade, I am missing my school life again. During these years I either with my friends or alone visited the school, approached my teachers, participated in a self organized alumni party, did almost everything just to revive my school life.
The truth is we always love our past, no matter whatever mistakes we have committed; our past is always full of beautiful moments which we can treasure. But we never sense them until we look back. And when you look back you try to live those moments again. Sometimes you start doing all those activities which you did in the past just in order to live again, but doesn’t work. You can’t live your life again, you just can Reminisce it.
To all my honorable teachers and awesome school friends who made my journey full of fun and happiness, and it will remain in my memories forever.
