Tuesday 30 August 2011

Teacher!

agla sawaal....10,000 ke liye

what is common in these personalities?
Jayalalitha, naveen patnaik, mamta banerjee, mayawati

A. they are railway ministers B.they are teachers
C. they are Unmarried D. they were actors

as soon as Shri Amitabh Bacchan spoke these dialogues, one of the guy sitting in mess shouted as hard as he could from his larynx "teacher ban ne ki aukaad nahi hai inki"...

His words instantaneously took me back to that old street where my Old teacher's Old house was situated. As I immersed myself into my old childhood memories, I forgot about eating the life saving drug-Mess Food.

In Sunday comic strip there are dialogue boxes which take the story forward, it was as if I had entered the comic strip and these dialogue boxes, instead of words, started to fill with Pictures from my past. How teacher used to give me a piece of Pizza for scoring good marks in exam and consoling me on scoring less. My skin can still feel her hand's wrinkled skin which used to touch it while she hugged me in her arms.

A mother for a five year old child, living alone in house away from his biological mother, that's what this teacher seemed to look.

My nursery days, when I used to play with Abacus, manual time watch, pictures in her evening classes, at her home were nothing but a way of growing up. For her, I was a small plant having a capacity to become a Banyan tree who on learning these things was producing roots to strengthen his hold on land.

She used to charge a hefty amount of tuition fee from my father but to me a five year old child, it seemed she was an angel playing the role of mother in my life.

Under her I learned the importance of most important thing in life which every organism on this planet needs- Love