Smile of Shri N.N.Mishra :)

N N Mishra joined Tantia High School as a Hindi Teacher in the year 1986. I think since childhood he used to wear " Safed Dhoti and Yello Silk Kurta". I challenge nobody has seen him in trouser and shirt. He is from Benaras Hindu University and a student of Krishna Bihari Mishra , Hazari Prasad Dwivedi and Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla etc. In spite of good knowledge in Hindi , he could not get a better opportunity in Kolkata , however I D Singh did not lose an opportunity to hire a Masters from University of Allahabad. N N Mishra Ji is a symbol of Benaras , always a "paan" in his mouth with a steady face. Mr. N N Mishra is the symbol of an underpaid person who is well qualified person in Hindi.

I used to study in Barabazar library whose librarian was Ramchander ji. Every body calls him Ramchander (Ram Chander) , even he himself calls his name as Ramchander . But one day , I saw N N Mishra visited Barabazar Library just near to our school and asked a peon ...( just pay attention )  ......" RAMCHANDRA HAIN ???"  wow what a classical examination of "Vishudh" pronunciation of Hindi ..... once in a life time ,somebody called Ramchander as "Ram Chandra" i.e. correct sound. So N N Mishra is the person who cannot think to pronounce something wrong in Hindi even in his dreams.

N N Mishra possesses great rapport with one of our History teachers Sri S D Dwivedi and Sri P. Tripathi. All of three belonged to the same age group. But both Dwivedi and Tripathi ji wears shirt and trouser but N N Mishra always prefer to be seen in Dhoti and Peela Silk wala Kurta.

One thing was best, his small smile ......he never laughed but has a great smile. He was a great competitor of K P Mishra , the other Hindi teacher who used to wear trousers of seventies. Like Sachin Tendulkar ( on the cricket Pitch) , K P Mishra ji alwasy used to create gaps between his two legs by just lowering himself at least thirty times in an hour. Sometimes while sitting on the chair also... ......... how  ??? please dont ask.

His pronunciation and meaning of a poetry and prose are impeccable. I saw him advising students of B.A and M.A. also with the same confidence  like teaching a student of class X. He has written some essays which he has secured by him for his retirement days. I appeal our friends that if somebody can help him to fetch fair value on publishing his materials. The favourites of N N Mishra during 1986 to 1992 were  ( which I saw him from my childish eyes) Manish Didwania, Ajay Singhi, Rama Kant Holani, Vinod Singh Rathore, Pawan Bhatia etc. Manish is one of his all time favourites. N N Mishra ji got maximum respect during that period only hence he still remembers most of the students of that period. Please god ... keep him healthy and stay fit. I heard that he is retired now.

I used to meet him after passing class X , he was not happy with the students after 1994.

will write.....if I remember some more.

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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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....