A Pandey and his comments !!

A Pandey is currently the Headmaster of Tantia High School. To some extent he is successful to carry the legacy of I D Singh. I am afraid , there may be or may not be a right successor. After I D Singh , the managing committee brought Mr. Upadhyay as a prinicipal , however he could neither win the hearts of students nor his colleagues. It was him who brought lady teachers into secondary section for a brief period. He changed the colour of uniform , never talked in right way with ex-students . However after his death , A Pandey took over. It was the effort of A Pandey and one of my best freinds R P Choudhary who brought Higher Secondary Section in the school which was a pipe dream during I D Singh days. The file was ready at West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education but there was no positive effort from our school otherwise we could have enjoyed our school for two more years.  Lets talk about A Pandey !!
A Pandey Joined Tantia Circa 1984.... he was young , his cheeks was like " Tamatar" , he has good voice and is a man of respect. He was M.A in English , but during our class 10 , he passed his M A in Hindi as a non collegiate student from University of Calcutta. He shared his experience of Hindi MA exams , his way of talking is mixed of puns and funs.
One of the unique dialogues  " Solah Janam ka Awara " - told to my classmate Jitendra Jain.
Once a boy was caught red handed standing in the line to buy an adult movie ticket by one of our teachers. He told other teachers including A Pandey on the next day .......... he started the topic in the class .......... "Munna Hamari bhi kabhi kabhi yeh sab picture dekhne ki iccha hoti hai ......per kya karein .... ticket lene ke liye jaise hi line me khade ho .. aap log pranaam karne wahan bhi pahuch jate ho"

Whenever somebody asks about Kashmir problem ....... he gets excited. He always blame Nehru for this.

will continue !!

Our Secondary Teachers : Initial Impact

One of the most scary days used to be the first day in the secondary section i.e Class V.  Kids of Tantia are promoted from Class IV to Class V i.e from Primary Section to Secondary . A complete different type of world. In other words , transition of Kids from the soft voices of Ms. Mitali, Ms. Mukkerji, Ms. Ghosh , Ms. Banerjee...........................to the rough rowdies of (UP and Bihar)'s great Pandey, Tiwari, Mishra , Singh, Choubey and Jha ji.  Some of the teachers were expert to engrave life long impact on new students of secondary. They used to be successfull in their very first week !! S K Bhattacharya was the first one to impact , his favourite words were

" yeh primary nahi , secondary hai "
" ab hum apna ghadi khol diya hai , es taraf ka koi ladka aaj maar kha jayega"
"Yooooooo , Yoooooooooo"
" ab dekho hum paanch ginega , aur kishori aake bolega , sir time ho gaya hai ..... " literally..... after counting five , kishori came on the first day and told ..... Sir, chod dijiye......... now what will be impact on the first day .

Second expert was K K Mishra ........I think he was the best to do private tuitions between class 5 and 6. His favourite dialogue was ..... " Wey bacche jo angreji ki kitaab nahi laye hain , wo khade ho jayen ... stand up". " Natak Karta hai " " Nautanki karta hai " . He always picked up one boy and throught out the year he would harrass him until he takes private tuitions from him. He was the first teacher who always objected to eat supari. " Pacchis baras taq supari nahi khani chahiye... jheebh moti ho jati hai , pacchis ke baad kha sakte hain "

The third one was " S N Pathak " what a personality ...........too tall for class V students... on the very first day he orated the story of Ramayana in Shudddh Hindi. On murmering in the class , his best dialogue I still remember " Jab Taq aapka aur hamara sambandh , madhurata ko chod , kathorta me parvivartit na ho , mere vichar se aap nahi sudhrenge" .

But they were genius ....... S  N Pathak was the most honest person to teach. He always completed his syllabus within time , with perfection and taking care of all the students without expectations. He always used to orate good moral stories before students and never praised himself like others. Even the least important things of the syllabus was taught by him with equal importance. Whenever I remember his teachings , I always praise him within myself.

UDAY : OUR ANNUAL SCHOOL MAGAZINE

Most of our frenz remember , our school used to publish an yearly magazine " Uday" in which only students could contribute Jokes, Stories, Articles , Poems or any sort of light literatuture. It had contents in English ,Hindi and Bengali. Two editors ( school's students of class X ) for each languages were selected as teh editors. However, most of the task was performed by our teacher Shri S K Mishra. He was very respected among teachers and students. Our Headmaster used to believe him a lot. He was not our vice principal but we always thought him as our vice principal.

If somebody's article was selected , he would feel himself at the top of the world. I don't know if it is published during the reign of Shri A Pandey , the current principal  or not. However ,it was beautifully designed and contained a lot of things. For months ,we used to read various things ( obviously nothing in english and Bengali ). The magazine was distributed among students from class I to Class X. Do any body have any copy .... please scan it and mail me at    bhaskarchoumal@yahoo.in or bhaskarchoumal@gmail.com , I shall send it to everybody who will ask for it. If we form an alumni association , we may ask the school to provide a copy from the archives.

The main contents of Uday were :
1. Photgraphs of Annual school function
2. Annual school sports photographs
3. I D Singh addressing to the mass on all occassion
4. Kya aap jante hain ?
5. Hasna Mana Hai
6. Photographs of tours organised by Tantia
7. Stories in all the three languages, poems ,
8. Story of some Mahapurush ....

If anybody has that book , pls share with us!!

Events Celebrated @ Tantia

Perhaps it's in the preamble of our school to create spirit of competition among students. The house teachers were always in the search of talent. Whoever had talent to speak , they just promoted them to speak in various competitions. A fifth standard boys may compete senior boys of class 10 in competitions like Antakshari. Students of different classes used to go in the assembly hall to learn the speeches and poems mostly in Seventh and Eighth period. Even they were directed to extend their timings even after school timings. R.Singh Ist , A Pandey and S P Pandey always tried for young talent , however S K B was very conservative and he always involved boys from class V to X however just before the day of final competition he used to sent only the senior boys. I do remember , Shivaji house , in many competition won between 1986 to 1990 , however , in 1991 due to his conservative policy it collapsed and stood at fourth place in various competition as one of the victims from 1987 to `1990 refused to appear on the day of Antakshari.  After that Shivaji house never stood first for next three years in many inter house competitions.

Various Events which we celebrated :

1. 26 th January - Republic Day - Both in Assembly and in Classes ( V to VIII- Class IX and X were exempted)
2. Saraswati Puja
3. Annual School Sports - Greatest Event of the year
4. Annual School Function either @ Mahajati Sadan or University Institute Hall ( College Square)
5. Tulsi Jayanti
6. Premchand Jayanti
7. Teachers' day
8. Boys' own day ( on the last day before Summer Vacation)
9. Adhoc Function - on 100 th anniversary of some freedom fighter
10 Independence day same as republic day
Inter House Competition @ Assembly hall

1. Hindi Debate -- Different speeches each house one in favour and one against ( Paksh aur Vipaksh)
2. English Debate - One issue  for and against
3. One Hindi Poem - Two candidates from each house
4. One English Poem - Two Candidates from each house
5. Antakshari - Four candidates from each house - House winner and Individual Winners too

Some good memories from these events I will try to write.... keep reading and please contribute on the blog itself !!

Morning Prayer -- Day wise

Our school is rich in its daily prayers @ assembly hall. I was one of the luckiest guys who used to sing prayers on the mike. It's we four or five people , who could see I D Singh , praying all the poems with students. Obviously he never sang loudly , but simultaneously he used to sing prayers while standing in the middle of the houses. It demonstarted his love towards poems , prayers and nation. At least once or twice he used to call all the members of the prayers singers to discuss problems while singing , the ragas of a particular song , who will sing which poem directly on the mike, who will be supportive , how to stand while orating Jana Gana Mana... national anthem. We had a very strong and firm team of singing prayers everyday.  Honestly , It was  a pride to sing prayers in the assembly. However , no other teachers except our principal ( although very strict) used to sing prayers in the assembly.

Every day we have to sing a common prayer composed of Seven Slokas from Rigveda including Gayatri Mantra at the end every day. Apart from Sanskrit Prayer everyday , one prayer was fixed for a particular day in a week.

The prayers ( day wise ) in the secondary section were :
1.  Monday -  Var De , Vinavadini var de - Prayer on Saraswati
2. Tuesday - Watan ki Rah me Watan ke naujawana shaheed ho -- It was a Patriotic song from a film
3.  Wednesday - Himadri Tung Shring Se , Prabuddh Shuddh Bharati --- a poem by Jayshankar Prasad - Excerpts from his play " Skundgupt"
4. Thursday - Sare Jahan Se accha , hindostan hamara - Poem by Ekbal
5. Friday - Chisti ne jis jamin pe , paimane haq diya tha -- Poem by Ekbal
6. Saturday -- National Anthem - Jan Gan Man --- by Rabindranath Tagore.

Houses of Tantia High School

When we were students @ Tantia , it was Hindi medium. However, it was the efforts of trustees and our ex-Head Master great H S Sharmaji , the school followed always the convent pattern. I shall write a few things about H S Sharma Ji which I heard from our teachers and ex-students and outsiders. He was an idol of discipline.

Our school's students were divided into four houses to make them competitive for various competition in sports , debate and other activities.

Primary Morning  was divided into four houses and each of them had separate house teachers

1. Alok house
2. Jyoti House
3. Kiran House
4. Prabhat House

Primary Day and Secondary section had also four houses , however their names were common

1. Pratap House ( R Singh Ist )
2. Vidyasagar House ( S P Pandey)
3. Raman House ( A Pandey )
4. Shivaji House ( S K Bhattacharya)

From class V to class VIII , every student had to report their houses in the last period in the assembly hall at ground floor. First of the three house teachers used to motivate their boys for better performance in inter house competition and daily affairs. Students could tell Jokes and stories, some teachers preferred films songs also, however we had tough times in the fourth house. Mr. Bhattacharya was very much strict for the performance of the house. Any boy responsible for reduction of marks in the house register , was beaten severely by SKB Sir. Any body who came late school , any colour of thread other than white in the dress of student , shoes of colour other than Black and White etc.. the captain of the school or the prefect of the house would deduct marks and their names were written in an old fashioned register which used to be brought in the house. After beating students , SKB used to ask english poems and teaching related things only.
However , other teachers were quite liberal in their attitude. They found rest time during house sessions. The best to rest was Shri A Pandey. Will write something more on teachers and houses ....... wait.... :)

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On Demand --- Names of Students 1992 from Section A

Section A was a great section. Most of the boys were padaku ...

1. Manish Didwania ( CA)
2. Nitin Sethia
3. ............................. ( the boy who used to come second after Manish ...used to live in Syed salley street chuhamal.... please write his name , i still remember his face .. always smiling .... marwari bhai)
4. S . M .Roshan Bhati
5. S M Rafi Bhati
6. Jitendar Sharma
7. Sanjay Sharma
8. Pawan Agarwal
9. Rahul Sonthalia
10. Sunil Gupta ( Lambu )
11. Manish jain
12. .......Choudhary
13. Anish..... ( the fattest boy of our school )
14. ---------- Maheshwari
15. --------- Bagla
16. Siddharth Sharma ( now a doctor I suppose)
17. Manish Choudhary
18. Avinash Khattry ( Very Naughty ...but my friend)
19. Navin Thirani - Now in Mumbai
20. Vikash Saraogi
21. Umesh Poddar
22. Sanjay Poddar
23. Naushad
24. Vikrant Singh


I will add.... once i remember ..........

Gems of our School - 1986 to 1994

Many students during 1986 to 1994 were brilliant and extraoridnary. They were pampered by our teachers , they were experts in school sports, education and other extra curricular activities. I was not a Gem , however I remember many of them. Please forgive me If I forget some names :

1. Ram Gopal Bajaj - Headbody when Iwas in class V - personality.
2. Ravindra Agarwal- Good orator and good student - Starmarks
3. Vinod Singh Rathore - Good student and good orator
4. Anand Singh Rathore - Good Orator and student - Brother of Vinod Singh
5. Om Prakash Damani - One of the most Brilliant - Professor in one of the IITs
6. Vishal Sharma - School Cricket team captain
7. Jitendra singh - Two centuries in Inter School cricket competition - CAB
8. Ajay Singhi - Good orator and good Student
9. Sumit Lakhotia - One of the best in Maths
10. Manish Didwania - my batchmate , 1992 batch topper , best in extra curricular acts and Headboy
11. Binay Pathak - Natural Mathematician
12. Nitin Gami- Good Orator and student
13. Sawrab Nayak - Good student
14. Dheeraj Khatri - Good orator and good student.
15. Vineet Khaitan
16. Vikash Khaitan
17  Ramakant Holani - Good speaker and Student
18 Hanuman Agarwal - Head boy of 1987
19. Vinay Kariwal

As and when I remember ... I will update the list ...please contribute with years...

My Batchmates of 1992

Our batchmates are scattered ........ I remember almost everybody however dont have knowledge about their whereabouts and their current profession. Hope , through this media , they may come up. I was in section C , however we had friends in section A and B too. My classmates names are :

1. Anand Sharma
2. Amit Sharma
3. Ashish Jain
4. Bharat Gupta
5. Binay Pathak
6. Bhaskar Choumal
7. Chanda Jaiswal
8. Chandan Singh
9. Hare Ram Singh
10. Sanjay Chamaria
11. Vijay Agarwal
12. Vikash Patodia
13. Sumit Agarwal
14. Pawan Kumar Gupta
15. Manish Choudhary
16. Mukesh Dugar
17. Vikash Asthana
18. Jitendra Jain
19. Vikash Kariwal
20. Navin Minda
21. Ashish Agarwal
22. Surendra Ginoria
23. Sunil Ginoria
24. Rajeev Khandelwal
25. Pawan Ginoria
26. Shashi Prakash Yadav
27. Suhash Daruka
28. ----------- Rungta
29. Amit Mishra
30. Rishi Handa
31. Subir Sehgal
32. Chirag Shah

Three more boys were there, I shall update once I remember .......

Our Good Old Secondary Teachers -- Riders of our life

What a team............  all were specialised in their job. We never realised during our studentship that they were specialists in their field , however when I look back , I salute their committment and their knowledge which they shared with us. I am writing their names only ,as I think I should devote a page for each of them. Lets have a look their names , I request .. if somebody has any photograph of our school and teachers please share with me at this platform.... List of our great teachers :

Teachers as on Madhyamik result 1992 :

1. J.K.Singh
2. K.N.Singh - Second
3. Y.Singh
4 V.K.Singh
5. P.Tripathi
6. S.K.Bhattacharya
7. N.L.Raha
8. S,N.Pathak
9. R.Singh First
10 R.Singh Second
11. R.C.Choudhary
12. R.S. Rai
13. S.K.Mishra
14. K.K.Mishra
15. S P Pandey
16. S D Dwivedi
17 R P Singh
18 B Pandey
19 K Singh
20 D N Jha
21 H R Jha
22 K P Mishra
23 N N Mishra
24 Dr. A .Jha
25. L N Singh
26. A Pandey
27. J P Singh
28. R S Singh
and our Headmaster
 **  I .D. Singh

Teachers who retired during our days:
1. K.N Singh First
2. G S Pandey
3. Rambabu ( S S Ram)
4. K Pandey
5. S K Mukkerji

Our Good Primary School Teachers :)

I still remember the face of our beloved teachers of Primary section ( Morning) and ofcourse their names too. For day section , I did try to know the names ...... may be some of you may not be interest in their names , however its my respect to great ladies that I still remember their names. Somewhere , Children of those great ladies must be feeling proud to see their mothers' name by their old students. We used to call them MISS irrespective of their age or marital status.Lets C , to what extent I could remember their names :
1. Mrs. Ganguli - I admired her most , she took our singing lessons and Bengali in class iv. She was just like our mother.
2. Mrs. Anjaria - A parsi lady , when I passed infant , she retired.
3. Suman Didi - She was incharge of morning section. Sweet lady , great heart , loved all students.
4. Prabha Didi - Sister of Suman Didi , very tough , our class teacher in class I
5. Aruna Didi - Class teacher of Class Infant. She loved me very much , she introduced me with her son during picnic of our school after final examinations of class three.
6. Sunita Didi --- my goodness !! what a voice .......... I will explain later in detail
7. Verma Didi - left school after my class 2
8. Khanna didi - She was a jolly teacher, I remember her dance on teachers' day.
9. Usha Didi--- Very very strict teacher. She took Hindi in class 3
10. Mitali Ghosh -- Soft spoken , good heart , she replaced Verma didi...
11. Rekha didi -- our life science teacher of class 3 ,good in drawing
12. Nisha Didi- A new teacher ,when I was in class four.
13 Chhaya Didi -- Nice lady ... our class teacher in fourth standard , used to teach History.
14 Verma Didi ( another ) - she was the sister of Nisha didi. Her daughter was also the student , junior to us. We always respected teachers' own children.
and....................... the most horrible
 Gambhir Didi --- We always be horrified with that lady. Students were never comfortable in her class, she was the limit of strictness.

If I have forgotten a few ........please remind me ....... I shall be grateful...


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Lets' refresh the memories of our School, Tantia High School

Let's start to refresh our memories about our good old school with a few little things. 

The journey of every student starts from the Primary section, then Secondary and finally Higher Secondary. One may choose either Primary Morning or Primary Day before admission.  I was in Primary Morning and we had to report by 6.30 morning. I was admitted to school directly to Infant in the year1980. On the very first day , I forgot to bring my aluminium box containing school books from the school. Later on , me with my sister went to school and collected that box. So my student life started on a funny note.

One of the main peculiarities of our school is , the primary section is controlled by Lady teachers and Secondary teachers are controlled by a lot of Sir ji's ( Male teachers). Another great peculiarity , till primary section , it is a Co-Education but after fourth standard ( last class of primary section ) our girl frenz had to take vidai ( transfer) to other schools. So girls from Tantia take their first lessons of Vidai Samaroh in their school itself.  During our times, the first preference of our girl freinds was RAM MANDIR :) :) ...uhhh its not the name of the school....... the real name of the school is SETH SURAJMAL JALAN BALIKA VIDYALAYA , second preference was Shree Sikhshayatan and third was Marwari Balika Vidyalaya,. Now,what is the preference ... I have to ask a few people ??? You may update in comments !! .  Now , once we Boys just started to understand  girls chemistry we were transferred to secondary section without girls. But we got new freinds as boys from Morning primary section and Day primary section are huddled together into one class. After a few clashes , we became life long freinds..........

Now the worst peculiarity........... suddenly ....we students from English medium Primary section became the students of HINDI MEDIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL which caused a lot of problems for many students and they still suffer with Hindi mis spellings. Also , whatever we used to learn about English during primary section days , started to forget in hardcore Hindi medium secondary section.

In our times ,the school was upto class ten only i.e. Madhyamik , but now it is upto class XII....

Tantia High School : Our Golden Years (टांटिया हाई स्कूल: हमारे स्वर्णिम वर्ष )

यह ब्लॉग मेरे टांटिया हाई स्कूल के पुराने दोस्तों, इसके पुराने और नए शिक्षकों,  वर्तमान और पूर्व छात्रों को समर्पित है। मैं काफी भाग्यशाली हूं कि अधिकांश महत्वपूर्ण घटनाएं, स्कूल शिक्षकों के नाम और उनके चेहरे आज भी मेरी स्मृति में हैं। मैं टांटिया हाई स्कूल यानी अपने स्कूल के गलियारों और क्लास रूम में बिताए अपने बचपन के सुनहरे वर्षों के कुछ अविस्मरणीय क्षणों के बारे में लिखने की कोशिश कर रहा हूं। मुझे विश्वास है आप सभी को यह पसंद आएगा 

मैं भास्कर चौमल हूं , मैंने 1992 में माध्यमिक परीक्षा उत्तीर्ण की थी। मुझे अपने स्वर्णिम साल में टांटिया हाई स्कूल का पूर्व छात्र होने पर गर्व है | उन वर्षों में, हमारे स्कूल ने कक्षा 10 के लिए 100% उत्तीर्ण परिणाम प्राप्त करना शुरू कर दिया

1986 से 1995 के दौरान अधिकांश छात्रों ने हमारे महान पुराने अच्छे शिक्षकों के साथ बहुत अच्छा समय बिताया। 1996 के बाद मैं ज्यादा ट्रैक नहीं रख सका, हालाँकि मैं अक्सर स्कूल जाता था। यह अफ़सोस की बात है कि, मुझे पिछले कुछ वर्ष स्कूल जाने का अवसर नहीं मिला

खोज इंजनों में, मुझे हमारे स्कूलों, शिक्षकों और छात्रों के बारे में वर्तमान गतिविधियों और अतीत के बारे में बहुत कुछ नहीं मिला। यह हमारे स्कूल को वेब पर डालने का एक छोटा कदम है।

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