posted Jun 16, 2011, 1:36 AM by Dms Alumni
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updated Dec 29, 2013, 9:17 PM by Sharath Adavanne
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Whenever in Mysore I drive around the school campus - have done this a couple of times. Great feeling.
I
was a student at DMS from 8th to 10th standard. Joined in 1965 after
an 'entrance exam'. Two and a half years of 'Central Syllabus'
education; Half year of SSLC subjects; 8th A, 9th Science and SSLC
section. Ou...r class was the second (or was it 3rd?) batch of the school. The
star studded ‘Top table’ : Head Master TGS with his measured walk and
talk; HKVM - Math teacher and assistant HM who decided whether we could
play or go to library on the rare occasion when the teachers bunked; HK
Ramachandra teaching us English apart from rhymes (Bonnie was a
warrior....) and KR - with his profou...nd
English; NSS with her ghost stories in Kannada; Ever smiling Ramanath
with his poetic Kannada; and a spell of serious RLA with Kannada
Grammer; KN Nagaraj riding in the rare ‘Jawa bike’ and his agriculture
coaching; Ramprasad heading commerce (I had wrongly understood that
commerce was all about knowing how to use a typewriter); Saroja madam
and her Hindi classes; VM
at our prayer and PT spots; Stern looking Hebbar in his track suit and
taking care of those who stepped out of line (me - many times); Sampath
Iyengar in his suit, transiting in his bicycle to teach us
'Technology'; A Nagaraj also in suit, flashy banana leaf sized ties and
bristling mush - teaching us chemistry an...d
helping us during the National science talent exam and the science
exhibition; Vatsala Madam trying to make us understand why alternate
angles are equal and that Rhombus is not an exotic automobile; Nirmala
madam as the ‘drawing’ teacher; Pillai busy with counseling the
students; Madhav Rao and Begum madam at the Library; Ever grinning
Sabastian driving the new school bus; Jaidev manning the old bus, being
even handed with all students except those who did not wear skirts !!! CGN
: fresh from (or was he still in) RCE (we used to see him walk across
from the college, or may be, he used to frequent the canteen which was
in a thatched roof hut half way between the school and the college); our
class teacher for two and a half years until I migrated to the SSLC
section; letting us have a small...
science lab in our own class room; wearing jacket with leather patches
at the elbow; donning ties that would make a self respecting rat rue
the thickness of its tail; announcing that his unmarried days were
numbered - in the midst of a class; his capability to use either of his
hand to write on the Board; his experiment of forming six groups in our
class of less than 30 students to do self study, and making us put on
display shortcomings in our self learning ability and communication
skills; and quietly steering us to the path of learning and self
dependence; Great
confluence of people in our class : Ravichandra, Vijayendra, Guru Datt,
Balasubramanya, Rajashekar, Subbarama Setty, Dayananda, Kishore
Chandra, Muttanna, Somaiya, Verghese George; and Radha Achar, Rekha
Sapre, Geetha 1, Geetha 2, Pushpa Iyengar, Sucharita Punja – friends and
classmates of a higher order (Jaidev... principle ?!). Apologies to those whose names I do not readily recall.
Isn’t nostalgia a pleasant pastime?
Incidentally, I am a CA practicing at Bangalore for the last 34 years
Swamy - Class of 1968 |
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