A tribute to Dadi Amma

Well! I wanted to write this blog quite a few days ago. My dearest teacher Mrs. M. Padmanabhan expired on 10th March, 2008. She is one of the best ladies I ever met in my life. I was always very much impressed with the way she used to deal with students. It is said 'In order to understand a child, you yourself have to be one'. Indeed true! Big madam herself used to think like a student when she dealt with her students. When I joined her school in 1991, I came to know about her. I was in second class at that time. Actually, one day, our school bus was following her black fiat. When one of the students in the bus shouted 'are wo dekho big madam ki car ja rahi hai', I heard it like 'Bik Madam' instead of 'Big Madam'. I argued with my gradma for at least half an hour at home, when I told her that I saw Bik Madam's car and she tried to explain me that she is Big Madam and not Bik Madam.Anyways, the next memory to share about Big Madam is that once, one of my teachers hit me very badly on my head for not bringing my drawing copy. I told this thing to my mom at home. I was already a very much physically weak child. My mom thought it was really bad to hit a child like that and she straightway complained it to Big Madam. Now, I just wonder what madam must have scolded that teacher!The next day, she apologized in front of the whole class.
My next best memory to share with the blog readers is regarding one foolishness of mine. Actually, Big madam herself used to give the report cards in the hands of students. Our class teacher just told us, 'Just take the report card, and say thank you madam, there is no need to waste her time by doing unnecessary things like touching her feet etc.' Now I, being an over obedient student, followed her advice. But, God knows, I just could not digest my food or what, the very next day, I went to her and said sorry and touched her feet thrice. She said in her usual loving tone' koi baat nahi babbu hum to samajh jaate hein'. She really laughed at my innocence, but her hug gave me the tremendous love and affection that I had always been longing for in my life and could never get it from either of my parents. Madam, you gave me the biggest achievement of my life with that hug. I can lead the whole of my life with only that much love. Even, the famous film actor Shahrukh Khan says 'A hug always gives a lot of energy to the children'. I remember no hugs ever given by my busy doctor parents. But, that jaadu ki jhappi given by Big madam is good enough for me to survive happily throughout my life.
When I got the result of my eighth standard, I missed a rank in the merit just by 0.2%. However, Big Madam encouraged me by saying'You have got a very good result child.Keep it up.' Her encouragement was greater than even the pleasure which I would have had even by getting the first rank of merit. She kissed my forehead and after that, I committed the first biggest mistake of my life till now. I left her school, as I wanted to shift to some CBSE school. Madam! Please forgive me for this.In spite of leaving her school, she was, she is and she will remain to be a continuous source of inspiration to me, and I think same is the case with all her students, and even the people who came in contact with her. May her soul rest in heavenly peace and I am sure her soul is right now here in this room, with me even when I am writing this blog.

Hey I will be 23 tomorrow

Well, I will complete 23 years of my life tomorrow, but I do not feel like that. When you are born, you are so much protected, well cared by parents and elders, as you grow up, everyone expects you to be independent. Slowly and gradually you develop a circle of your own, face the life and gain your own experiences.
Indeed, experience is the best teacher of a person, in spite of being a lecturer, dealing with the younger generation (5 years younger than me), I strongly feel that you can be a lecturer, you can be a professor, even you can be a senior professor, but no person on this earth can be anyone's teacher. A person always learns from his or her own experiences of life.
Well, life is just going on as usual, I can only hope for a better life, and of course can also try for it.

Rakshabandhan

Well today was rakhi. When I was a kid, we had a story in our Hindi lessons about how a small girl feels bad on this festival and she makes a brother by tying him a rakhi. At that time, even I felt the very same thing. But as I grew up, came to know about the typical male chauvinist world and especially the male chauvinism in our country, where Durga is worshipped as the mahashakti and at the same time, so many female feeticides occur even in the so called educated society, I developed a typical feminist attitude towards life.
So on this particular festival, personally I feel that instead of the so called attitudes that the females tying the rakhi on their brothers' hands and getting gifts in return and also a promise for protection, there should be an attitude in parents to teach their daughters how to be independent, protecting their ownselves rather than being dependent on their brothers and at the same time what we need is a basic change in the typical backward mentality regarding the females.

Life is like that

Well it is 26th of August 2007 today and here I write my first blog. Life after B.E. was quite different than I expected it to be. Perhaps I dreamt a lot at that time. However, now I take life as it comes.
Noting much to write just now.
So gn.