Some incidents remain with you forever. And this one always brought me a smile and now it brings me a tear. Antu sir left us all but his memories live.
This was when I was in Class X and was preparing for my board exams. Sir had huge expectations of me and basically he knew the capacity of each of his students. He was all set to take an exam and told us that the score in his exam would be near to the final score we would get in the board exam. I wanted to do well for obvious reasons.
I wrote Sir's exam well but I knew there were minor misses but I did not know that I had made a blunder till my friend told me. She was in a different batch and that was when Antu Sir was correcting the papers. He corrected my paper before others and used mine to check others. But there was this one problem where I had made a mistake in the very last step and Sir overlooked that.
But when the others saw that he had not marked their correct answer they looked at each other's paper and at each other. It took a look of courage from them to tell Sir to recheck my paper. And when he did he found that I had made the silliest of mistakes in the last step - I had added 0 and 1 and written 4. He crossed my answer out and did not give me a single mark on that question. So, my marks stood at 88 from 93.
So when my friend told me about this when we were headed for our class, I was scared, damn scared. And when he sat across me, I was expecting to be scolded, he looked cool and smiled at me and asked me to be careful in my final exam. That was it! Yes, that was it!
He visited the examination hall on the day of the examination, asked me to confidently answer the paper. I did well and eventually scored 91 in the final exam, the state highest that year. His greatness did not stop here, the state highest in the following year was his student too. In a way we are happy to have made him proud.
I cannot forget the moment he did not scold me, he came to the examination hall and how he was waiting after the exam for some student to visit him. When he saw me he was relieved and when he went through my question paper, he looked satisfied.
He gifted me a watch after the results, unfortunately I lost that years later in Bangalore. How much I want to go back in time and get my watch fixed so it does not fall off my hand. But that will never happen!
And it's been a year since we all lost you Sir but never your teachings! Forever etched!
This was when I was in Class X and was preparing for my board exams. Sir had huge expectations of me and basically he knew the capacity of each of his students. He was all set to take an exam and told us that the score in his exam would be near to the final score we would get in the board exam. I wanted to do well for obvious reasons.
I wrote Sir's exam well but I knew there were minor misses but I did not know that I had made a blunder till my friend told me. She was in a different batch and that was when Antu Sir was correcting the papers. He corrected my paper before others and used mine to check others. But there was this one problem where I had made a mistake in the very last step and Sir overlooked that.
But when the others saw that he had not marked their correct answer they looked at each other's paper and at each other. It took a look of courage from them to tell Sir to recheck my paper. And when he did he found that I had made the silliest of mistakes in the last step - I had added 0 and 1 and written 4. He crossed my answer out and did not give me a single mark on that question. So, my marks stood at 88 from 93.
So when my friend told me about this when we were headed for our class, I was scared, damn scared. And when he sat across me, I was expecting to be scolded, he looked cool and smiled at me and asked me to be careful in my final exam. That was it! Yes, that was it!
He visited the examination hall on the day of the examination, asked me to confidently answer the paper. I did well and eventually scored 91 in the final exam, the state highest that year. His greatness did not stop here, the state highest in the following year was his student too. In a way we are happy to have made him proud.
I cannot forget the moment he did not scold me, he came to the examination hall and how he was waiting after the exam for some student to visit him. When he saw me he was relieved and when he went through my question paper, he looked satisfied.
He gifted me a watch after the results, unfortunately I lost that years later in Bangalore. How much I want to go back in time and get my watch fixed so it does not fall off my hand. But that will never happen!
And it's been a year since we all lost you Sir but never your teachings! Forever etched!
