Sir He Is disturbing me!!!

This memory goes back to the time when late Chittaranjan sir (may his soul rest in peace) was our art teacher perhaps in eighth standard. Rajarshi Sen, Popat as I used to call him, didn’t have an art file so he was thrashed till black and blue by Chittaranjan sir on weekly basis :)


So one day Popy got frustrated and decided to bunk the class. I remember art used to be our last period, perhaps the eighth one and Popat did it, way to go dude hats off for your first achievement!! So he bunked the class and guess where was he hiding? No! not in the students activity room, No! not in the play ground but yeah in the toilet of course the boys one, hats off to u dude again for your second achievement i.e. surviving in the toilet for 45 minutes!!!

45 mins passed and no one could figure out that Rajarshi was missing in the class. The attendance was finally taken when there were 10 mins left for CHUTTI and I was really getting inspired by this revolutionary Begali POCHA MACH coz he was about to start the trend of bunking classes in DPS Rourkela.But all this was flushed out when roll nos of Rajarshi was called by Chittaranjan sir and there was no reply. This was a historic event in DPS coz bunking classes was a taboo during my time and I can hardly name people who dared to bunk classes. We all were innocent terrorists so there was no point of proxy in a class of 35 and no one responded. This shocked the hero of this story Mr. Arpit Acharya.

Arpit couldn’t digest this fact that the guy who was so much present in the class till the last period went missing now. This contemporary warrior who was blazed by the heavens to be present on that day; well the reason why I say this is because that day Arpit cud have suffered from Dysentery and could have stayed at home peacefully in the bathroom, but no!!!

He was destined to decide the fate of Popat. He complained, “Sir Rajarshi was present in the last period...”

OH!!! OUCH!!!!! NO WAYS!!!!!! these expressions started bursting in my head like some fusion bombs coz I could figure out the picture in next 20 mins. As I’ve suspected 2 guards of Golgotha, Anshu Kumar and Arpit himself were sent with a peaceful petition from our beloved art sir demanding timely surrender of the worm hiding in the toilet who was more dangerous than the so called disease causing microbes!!! and yeah he didn’t have any option because things would have been way different if our sir would have personally visited the toilet.

Popat was finally dragged to the class, and I don’t want to dwell on the scene that followed. After having all the kicks and punches Popat came to me during the dispersal and man was he burning in fire, his breath was smelling of place as bloody as the slaughter house, his face was red as if a volcano had burst inside him and man his eyes were more scary than those of Goddess Kali. Folding his shirt up to the elbow he asked, “Who did this?”. The guy standing behind me was so scared by the very presence of this human Cerberus that he didn’t even let me explain things and screamed out, "It was Arpit".

OH!!! OUCH!!! NO WAYS!!! again these words shattered my head but unlike 20 mins back, these words were for my dear friend Arpit. What happened next was unimaginable Popat went up to Arpit and without saying a word dragged him inside the class room and closed the doors!!! Hey dude congrats for your third achievement coz living in 21 century I would never dare to drag a guy in an empty class room that to also in front of 200 people and lock up from inside. Perhaps he didn’t want us to interfere in his privacy, but sticking our ears to the door all that we heard was no talking but banging of tables and chairs which was bit different from the normal table banging that we did when teacher was not present. After those longest 10 mins doors opened and POPAT came out with a wild smile of satisfaction yup he had done his job! Congrats dude for your 4th achievement!

Ever since that day no matter what Popat did, like eating lunch of others, snatching cricket bat for batting, tearing off assignment note books of others to make sure that he’s not the only one to be throw outside of the class etc, no one ever dared to say “Sir he is disturbing me!!!”.

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