If you go around asking, when students are (more correctly, should be) in their peak sincerity during their school life, I am pretty sure most of them would answer Class 11-12. So after almost chilling the hell out for the entire class 11 when the final results came, we were shocked that even after not giving enough time for studies we had performed poorly. We had to pacify ourselves by saying “ अबे 11 का result कोई देखता भी नहीं है main class 12 है ” . And so, we as a class (Batch 2018) decided that we will have to mend our ways and study seriously for class 12th. Arrived the very first day of class 12 and I knew a lot of things were about to change and I kid you not “a lot” was to change from here onwards. We started off with about 44 students in class 10 and then the number went down to 24 in class 11 and then to 19 students in class 12 (reason, our school did not have an arts stream so students who wanted to opt for arts had to move out). This major wipe-out broke ...
What I am writing is not at all like an ‘old uncle’s’ rant about “Oh! This newer generation is like this and that” no not at all. Rather what I am writing is what I can safely call a piece of sweet nostalgia served on your plates. Sometimes people do ask me why I do like to write these? And I reply “I guess it’s a way to keep things alive. Saving things that are eventually going to die. If I write them down, they will last forever… forever…” Happy Reading!!