It all started from the very first day . I entered my class . In despair . Saw a bunch of louts sitting on the teacher's desk. Out of which one was known to me -Burhan . Burhannudin Naib. He came along with me from class 8 . Although we never really talked much , i was happy i knew at least one person . I went to the corner most row and took a seat . I could find a few recognizable faces . Radhika . Radhika Chatterjee. Rather Crazy Styles , for which she was popular. I could find a few more familiar faces. Himanshu . HIMANSHU Rohra. We hadn't spoken in years. He was with me in grade seven. Mayank Dugar and Ronit Bannerjee were there as well. I remember Ronit coming and sitting beside me . I even remember my first sentence in that class on that day -" is there goin' to be any shuffling after class 9?"
Well , nope . Class 9 and 10 are supposed to be one segment . From thereon , i knew that these two years were going to be the shittiest two years of my life. At least that's what i thought . Our class teacher was a lady with a British accent- Mikai Kanjilal . She is one of the best teachers i've ever come across till date . A week later our classroom was shifted. I remember sitting beside this guy called Keshav Bhutra . Although we never talked much , but he was nice . I remember Mikai ma'am shouting at him on every other day or so .It seemed like she used to have a lot of almonds . She used to bring incidents from previous years and yell at him . Well that was fun . There used to be pro-wrestling matches in our classes when the practice for annual day was going on . And if my memory isn't betraying me , it was a 'kada' , yes a huge magnificent kada was the reward of it. I remember those fights as well where harsh, anas , burhan ,ayush, atul , mayank,tejas and the rest used to compete with each other. I remember Harsh winning the most of them . I remember one fight well . Very well. When a fat , dark(i'm not being racist) clown-sort of a guy was told to compete with the sweetest boy of the class( as in only the face). Yes , it was
ARHAM VS MANAV SANGHVI . I don't remember who won but i do remember that they kicked each other's buttocks quite hard.
Our teachers- Amita ma'am(hindi) , sushmita ma'am (chemistry) , amitabho sir (physics) , our beloved debashish sir (maths) , moushmi rudra ma'am ( geography) and the representative of class 9-Aditi ma'am , whom we were all scared of.
With the change in timetable , we had Priyajit sir as our chemistry teacher.
And then , it was a hell lot of a class. From singing happy birthday for him to closing door , Windows and laying our head down . Totally epic! Although the class was divided into certain groups , everyone enjoyed everything. Be it the girls , the Bengalis or anyone else . There were two epic creatures in the class. Joshua khurrana and Harshita Agarwal . Harshita , the female clown of the class . No one really liked her . I think there used to be some sort of negative energy which used to come from her. Yes there used to be. Harshita was a short , dark(i'm not a racist again) and a stout girl. People used to pair her up with Arham Baid .Well they were perfect for each other . Soulmates xD. And i guess she did consider Arham hers. Whatever the reason be , it was she who was proven wrong. Either by the students or by the teachers. Usually among the teachers , Aditi ma'am and moshumi ma'am played this vital part. Harshita was allowed to go to the FortWilliams only on the condition that she would have to prepare an essay on her visit.
And guess what? She did . She actually did . But *sigh* , she couldn't speak . And it was Aditi ma'am who kept on asking one question after the other while the only answer she had got was-" ma'am , there was a gate ..and cannons " . Anyways, we usually had English in the last period and we used to spend some fun quality time with our CT-Mikai ma'm .
It was one fine afternoon when we were discussing about CBSE and ICSC courses and comparing the level of standard , harshita agarwal landed up with the statement " yes ma'am , icici is very tough" . Yuvraj , i and others present there couldn't stop laughing .
Wait . Did I introduce yuvraj? Yuvraj Mundhra , short in height , but tall in his might . The best student of our class. Rather the only good student of our class . There was not a single competitor for him in the class except Souvik Maity . An 'akashiyan' . He was a teacher's pet, boasting about his extra awareness in the various fields of academics. At times I really felt like smacking his face with a shoe . I did .
