Dolui:- Are you a new student? We have never seen you before? You were in which school?
Ganga:- ha ha ha…you made me laugh. I was in this school only. I failed in Class I, Class III and Class V. My name is Ganganarayan Gangopadhay. Have you heard the name of the place, Ganguly Bagan?
Dolui:- Yeah, yeah…you stay there?
Ganga:- Ha ha ha….my great grandfather was the zamindar of that Ganguly Bagan. The name of the place came from our ancestral surname only. All of you should call me Ganga daa. I am senior to you all. Joseph is one year junior to me because he failed in Class II and Class V only.
Joseph:- Hello everyone, I am Joseph. From now on, you people should listen to me and Ganga, otherwise, you may have to face the consequences.
Raqeeb:- Actually, Joseph daa, we were missing some Dada type persons in our class. From now on, we have got 2 Dada type persons in our class. Hurrah!
Ganga:- Eh…motu…there is no need to celebrate in this regard. Just sit quietly. Tonight there is a final match between Argentina and Germany in the World Cup Football. I am the Argentina supporter and Joseph is supporting Germany. Ei, Bhanu, whosoever is supporting Argentina; write down their names in a piece of paper and collect 5 bucks from each of them.
Joseph:- Ei Jahar, whosoever is supporting Germany; write down their names in a piece of paper and collect 5 bucks from each of them.
Meenakshi:- My goodness! What are you people trying to do?
Ganga:- Nothing at all. No matter which team wins in the World Cup Final, we will celebrate a small snacks and cold drinks party in our classroom with that fund.
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Prakash:- It was a bad luck for the defending champions. The Germans were too lucky to lift the World Cup and that too in a penalty shootout.
Satya:- Come on! Don’t talk about Argentina now. Your Hero, Diego Maradona is a drug-addicted person.
Ganga:- Ei, Satya…those are all traps. Maradona is as pure as Gold. If you make any bad remarks about Maradona, I will break your nose. Klinsman and Lother Mathews don’t deserve that World Cup. They were too lucky this time.
Joseph:- Arrey, Ganga bhai, just don’t be so disappointed. That’s a football match final. One has to lose and one has to win. Come on! Take the snacks and the Cold drinks.
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Arindam:- Not only Ganga daa, but I am also disappointed. I was very much confident that Argentina will lift this World Cup, but, alas, Germany came from nowhere to grab it.
Bidisha:- You know something. I have collected so many poster cards of World Cup footballers by buying ‘World Cup’ bubble gums. With each bubble gum of ‘World Cup’, you will get a poster card of a footballer. I have the photos of Marco Van Basten, Schillachi, Buruchaga, Gary Linekar, Ruud Gulliet, Roger Milla, Lother Mathews, Klinsman and of course Maradona.
Arindam:- Oh! That’s great. Ruud Gulliet…hmm…yeah yeah…that guy with a fantastic long hair. How can I forget his famous goal with a back-volley? Accha, Bidisha, which is your favorite team?
Bidisha:- Of course, Brazil. I don’t support Argentina, but my 2nd favorite team is Holland.
Arindam:- Yeah, I also like that Holland team, because they know the art of counterattacking better than any other teams.
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Tamang:- Yeah, I can see those two skulls kept inside the room through these small hole outside the door. But, I really doubt about the scary nature of those skulls at night. Maybe, Nalini Madam was trying to scare us.
Nonigopal:- Ei, come on, I have opened the lock of the terrace door. This duplicate key really works. Hats off to Joseph daa for giving me this duplicate key. Wow! This terrace is as big as a playground.
Tamang:- Babah…if you look down from this terrace, you will feel as if your head is spinning. Hey look there. From that side of the terrace, we can get hold of some trunks of a mango tree which is situated on the adjacent plot of this school.
Nonigopal:- There are so many mangoes, though they are not so ripe enough.
Tamang:- Who cares! Let us pluck some of them.
Nonigopal:- Wash those mangoes before eating it. There is a cemented tank on this terrace with a tap below it. Wash the mangoes in that tap water.
Tamang:- Ok.
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Joseph:- What happened? What happened? Why both of you are panting for breath? Why are you tensed?
Tamang:- We were washing some mangoes under the tap water. The color of the tap water was mild red.
Joseph:- What! Come with me. I want to see it with my own eyes. Come on; wash the mangoes again under the tap water. Where are you seeing the color of tap water as mild red! It is clean water. Dhaath…you people just cook up all those bullshit stories.
Nonigopal:- Tamang is not telling lies, Joseph daa. I have also seen that the tap water was mild red in color.
Joseph:- Don’t eat these mangoes. Just throw it down at the adjacent plot of this school. Don’t tell anything to anyone about this incident. I don’t believe in ghosts but one of our school students committed suicide from this terrace. Maybe….who knows…oh! I don’t have guts to say anything now. Don’t come to this terrace again. Let’s go.
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Satya:- Ei, Ganga daa, you are seeing something inside your bag and rubbing your pant. What is there?
Ganga:- Ei, be attentive to this History class. Don’t look at me. Ei sob baroder jinish…chotoder dekhtey nei.
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Chinmoy:- Something must be there in Ganga daa’s bag. What was he watching during the class?
Ravi:- Ok, Ganga daa has gone down now in the canteen. Let us search his bag and find out what is there?
Satya:- My goodness! What is it? This is a book of 16 pages containing pornographic pictures.
Joseph:- Yes, you are right! This is popularly known as ‘Sholo Paata.’ It costs only 20 bucks. You will get it at any footpaths of Chandni market.
Arindam:- Hey look, Ganga daa is also having a pack of special type of playing cards inside the side pocket of his bag.
Joseph:- That is not a playing card, boss. That is a pack of Deluxe Nirodh. It is a condom packet.
Dolui:- What is a condom?
Joseph:- Hussh…don’t ask it loudly, girls are also sitting inside the class.
Ganga:- Hey, I will kill all of you. How dare you all open my bags? What is so special in my bag? Oh! Shit! Give me that packet.
Kanchan:- What is there inside it, Ganga daa?
Ganga:- I also don’t know. My cousin brother, who is 5 years elder than me, gave me. I am also curious. I will see it for the first time. I have heard a lot about condoms but never seen it. Come on; let us open this packet inside our Boys’ toilet room.
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Dolui:- Ha ha ha…it looks like a balloon only with some gums in it…he he he…What is its use actually?
Ganga:- We boys have some special liquids in our body. When it gets injected by us inside a girl’s body, they become pregnant. To block the liquid, we should use this balloon. I also don’t know everything in full details. Whatever my cousin brother told me, I am telling you only. We need to learn a lot about biology out of curiosity, he he he…
Joseph:- But, why our dick gets raised whenever we see a nude girl? I mean what magic is there?
Ganga:- Ha ha ha…the magician is sitting on top of the Universe, Joseph. God created Adams and Eve but he also created the apple tree to create that magical attraction between two sexes. They say that Adams committed a sin. But is it really a sin or a superb magical performance?
Dolui:- Uff…Ganga daa…you should become a great philosopher one day.
Joseph:- Tomorrow, I will bring beedis and cigarettes to school. We will try it out in this toilet room. No one comes here. The location of this classroom is in such an isolated position, that you can experiment everything here.
Arindam:- Our School Authority knows that the students of Class V will keep on experimenting new things. That’s why; they have put us in this classroom.
Ganga:- Have you people got the breaking news? Patricia, the daughter of our Peterson Sir, was found in a compromising position with a boy at the boys’ toilet after the last period of afternoon session. Girls are more advanced than us. So, we boys need to upgrade ourselves.
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Meenakshi:- Why are you not using hygienic napkins at this stage? It happens to every girl. We are experiencing our menstrual cycles from Class IV itself.
Tiya:- No, actually, I am experiencing it for the first time. I am so happy to have that feeling.
Revathi:- Now, don’t talk so loudly. Boys are always interested to listen about all these things. Go to the restroom and take some help from Mrs. Browne. Don’t take these things too lightly in the initial stages.
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Mr. Talukdar:- Students! Just listen to me very carefully. As you all know that yesterday only, the famous Babri Mosque was demolished in Ayodha. Now, from today morning onwards, we are getting reports of so many riots throughout India. Even in our city, the Metiaburuz, Park Circus and Khidderpore area are on fire. We are declaring holiday today and the school will remain closed for another 3 to 4 days, till we get full assurances from the Central as well as State Government, that all the riots-prone areas are in control. While returning home, don’t misbehave or start running here and there because many places of Kolkata are under curfew. Section 144 has been imposed there. So, the soldiers have full right to fire at any suspicious guy on the road. Now, start moving and go back home as early as you can. There are chances of more Hindu-Muslim riots.
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Sudeshna:- Thank God! Finally, the riot has ended. Do you know, at least 7000 people died in the Hindu-Muslim riots all over India.
Tamang:- For 4 days, people were really scared of coming out of their houses. Yesterday only, I was watching the movie, ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ and was thinking that in a country where such films are made, are experiencing Hindu-Muslim riots now.
Nonigopal:- Actually, that Babri Mosque demolition is a sweet revenge on Babur who destroyed the Ram temple on that same place of Ayodha.
Revathi:- Whatever it may be; whether it is a sweet revenge or bitter revenge, that is not the issue. The issue is; for some silly hooliganism, have you really counted how many innocent lives have been taken in the name of riots.
Nonigopal:- Anyway, the riots are over. The revenge has been taken. Everyone will forget everything as time heals all wounds. Now, there is peace and prosperity everywhere and it should prevail in future also.
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Mr. Bradman:- Good morning students! Do you all know why we have all assembled here at the Assembly Hall? Yesterday, we have lost a great modern man of India. He is the man who talked about globalization and implemented it by bringing computers in India. Yesterday, in Perempudur (Tamil Nadu), he has been killed by the LTTE forces with the help of a human suicide bomb. The girl came with a big garland and that garland destroyed everything with a deadly bomb blast. Let us maintain a silence for 5 minutes in tribute to our respected soul of Shri Rajib Gandhi.
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Satya:- One thing, I really don’t understand! LTTE is a terrorist force in Sri Lanka and that too I have heard that the Tamil refugees of Sri Lanka have formed that terrorist group. Then, what is the motive behind killing Rajib Gandhi?
Kanchan:- Maybe, Rajib Gandhi did a blunder by promising to help the Sri Lankan government to wipe out the LTTE forces from that Jaffna island.
Revathi:- Yeah, Rajib Gandhi took a foolish decision. LTTE issue is a headache of Sri Lankan government. Why should India poke its big nose there?
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Bidisha:- Yeh…ILU…ILU kya hain…yeh…ILU…ILU…
Arindam:- Arrey, you are also singing the same song! In our school bus, all the junior boys and girls were also singing the same song.
Bidisha:- This is the super hit song of a newly released film, ‘Saudagar’, which features Raj Kumar and Dilip Kumar.
Arindam:- Oho…yeah, yeah…there is a song, ‘Issh jungle mein hum doh sher, chal ghar, chal ghar…ho gayi derh.’
Bidisha:- Exactly! You are bang on target.
Arindam:- By the way; what is the meaning of this word, ILU?
Bidisha:- Oho! You idiot! You don’t the meaning of it. ILU means I Love You.
Arindam:- Oh! My God! I have never ever imagined in my life that you love me.
Bidisha:- hee hee hee…now, you are pulling my legs. I just told you the full form of ILU. I never told you that I Love you…uuh…I will love an idiot like you…uuh…just get lost from here.
Arindam:- Ha ha ha…I also don’t want love from a super-idiot like you. You also get lost from here. Our school bus conductor is calling me now. See you tomorrow, bye.
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Nonigopal:- I was not aware that our village is just at a 5 Km distance interior from the Bay of Bengal. What is the name of this place?
Chandrani:- Frazerganj. Actually, what you are seeing is not the waters of Bay of Bengal, but of river Hooghly only. You have to go another 10 Km by boat to reach the waters of Bay of Bengal. If you start walking towards south on this beach, you will reach Bakkhali beach.
Nonigopal:- Eh! There is a bad smell in this beach.
Chandrani:- It is the smell of ‘Shutki Maach’ (Suka or dried fish). The fisherman from Bangladesh enters West Bengal through this route. They catch all the fishes and start drying them on the Frazerganj beach. Bangaals (People of East Bengal) are fond of eating curries of Shutki Maach. They say that it is very tasty, though, being a Ghoti, I have never tasted those dishes. This Frazerganj beach is also acquired by our Indian Navy. Can you see those speed boats? They are of Indian Navy only.
Nonigopal:- Wow! There are lots of jhinuks (shells) on this beach. There are some conch-shells too. Chandrani, have you ever got any pearl from a sea beach?
Chandrani:- Who told you that pearls are found in sea beaches? I am not so lucky also. But, yes, there is a Shankarpur beach in Midnapore district, where you can find lots of beautiful shells. Oh! No! You have already collected too many shells. What will you do with those shells? Give those to me; I will create a nice garland for you.
Nonigopal:- Is there any island there? I can see one.
Chandrani:- Yeah, that is the Jammudweep island. During summer, half of its area remains submerged under water but in winter season, it becomes a fabulous island to live in. There is a Maa Manasa temple on that island where people go to shave off their hairs as a part of their rituals. In that Maa Manasa temple also, there is a snake which comes out at every Saturday night to drink milk.
Nonigopal:- You are a very conservative girl, Chandrani. I don’t have too much faith on anything, that’s why; I hardly feel tensed in crunch situations. I just fight back with a bulldozer inside my heart.
Chandrani:- Come on! Let’s go back to our village. It is getting dark now and anyway, tomorrow, you have to go back to your city as your summer vacation ends tomorrow.
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Mrs. Prasad:- From now on, there will be four exams in a year. There will be 2 Unit Tests, one Half-Yearly Exam and of course the Annual Exam. Before the Half Yearly Exam there will be the 1st Unit Test and the 2nd one will be after the Half Yearly Exam. Unit Tests will be of 50 marks for each subject. Don’t think that if you do well in Annual Exam only, you will pass the class. You have to do well in all the exams consistently and based on the average marks on all four exams, you will get the final ranking.
Ganga:- Oh! No! Now, they are increasing so much pressure on studies. Now, we have to study whole year.
Mrs. Prasad:- Yes, that is good for you such poor students. If you are kept under pressure every time, you will automatically learn something, though not everything. At least you will pass in the class.
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Mrs. Khanna:- Good morning everyone, from today onwards, I will teach your 3rd vernacular language which is Hindi. I am Mrs. Kamalika Khanna. All of you open your Hindi text book. We will learn the Hindi alphabets today.
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