Crazy Memories Of JNV

I would like to share one of my experiences as a boy growing up in the residential school of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya,Panchavati,Uttara Kannada.

It was my of 4th year in JNV i.e I was in 9th standard . JNV's have a system where 33 percent of the class students be interchange with 33 percent of class student from a different JNV of different region at this grade. As such the situation , luck/unlucky me , I was among 66 percent of the people who had stayed back.

Why I feel myself luck! Because that year gave me a base for my 10th Standard.
Why unlucky ! Because I had to go through (again) all the humiliations (raging) from the seniors.

Anyways coming to the actual story which I want to narrate in here,

We had one Tuff teacher by name Janardhanan , who used to teach us Social Studies. We used to call him "Janna" (with respect) . As we kids remember, he was an extrovert. Whenever he walked, his shoes would make a distinct noise which every kid JNV was aware of. I believe the shoe sole was made wood.

We had his class (social studies class) scheduled right after tiffin (most of the days) i.e 3rd period when all MP student would be sitting in other class for there Kannada lecture and we local kids in another for our Social Studies. (similarly visa-versa during Kannada class)

At that point of time ,in our JNV we have 3 Houses (later it was divided into 4). I was in Nehru House (later Nilgiri). And as a system everyone used to shared mess duty according to rotation policy.

On one particular day, me and my Nehru house 9th class boys had this so called mess duty. As always late lattif i.e me , I was late from all the rest (reason being Mess duty). But for my surprise the punctual Janna who was always on time was not in the classroom yet.He was bit late that day (which hardly used to happen) .

I had a fibre writing pad (costing about 45Rs) gifted by my pappa. When I tapped that fibre pad it made a similar sound as that of Janna shoes. I had a long running crazy Idea about testing that sound.

What I did was this.

I tapped the writing pad which was of fibre and made a exact sound with frequency and rhythm as Janna's shoes always did and walked into the classroom and for my (no) surprise all my classmates stood up to wish me "GOOD MOrneeeee.........." and then came the scoldings...