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Referring to teachers and masters by their nicknames was very much prevalent during our school days, i.e. around the ‘50s and ‘60s. Besides learning mathematics, science, languages, history, geography and discipline for that matter from our teachers and masters, the forty or fifty odd boys in the class would study intently these teachers and masters,…

In his message to SportsBandra ’08, our patron, Leo Pinto pleaded “keep the fire (for sports) always burning (in our hearts)” … we’ll try and emulate your ideals … always!(i am re-producing here an article from this morning’s Times of India)Leo Pinto, India’s oldest Olympian, is no morePINTO WAS THE GOALIE WHEN INDIA WON GOLD…

http://scroll.in/article/after-almost-five-years-in-jail-alleged-maoist-…

Exactly 14 days left for launch. Loads to do by way of technical, editorial and political work. Need to run the pilot starting tommorow.

If there is anything about my life as a boarder that I will remember in vivid detail for the rest of my life, it will be the Holy Week. It is not because I have any pretensions about being religious, rather it was because of the great Good Friday ritual. Ever since I finished schooling,…

Boys from the first division were allowed outing Sundays when we could officially leave the premises to visit near family who lived close by. Well I had an aunt down Chinkpoli road em route to Veronica street. When I did visit her she would give me a real fantastic lunch ( and you know how…