Tiffin Time of Tantia High School

As mentioned earlier, we were allowed a 45 minutes tiffin break after the 4th period. Students of class 5 to 7 used to utilised the tiffin time as -  10 minutes for eating and remaining time for playing and talkings. 

Sometimes, we used to play cricket in our class keeping light bulbs and fans under switch off mode. A handkerchief was converted in to a cricket ball and a ruler (scale) was used like a cricket bat. I Can't explain, it was a great time. However, just after 45 minutes, Prefects, Captain of the houses started to enter in to classes and they were always mean especially with the boys of class 5 to 8.

Some of the Prefects were nervous from the students who used to be their classmates i.e. such classmates ( Students who failed previously) got equal weight and fighting skills. Hence prefects could manage them through their voices only or in extreme cases ..those prefects could use the intervention of Captain or Vice Head Boy. 

Headboys used to be the boss of our schools. Headboys got enormous respect in our school. I remember our head boy Ram Gopal Bajaj.... the perfect head boy ...after that no headboy could ever matched his personality. There were loopholes in selection of headboys... will tell story in some other boy.. lets concentrate on our lunch break.

So those prefects could use their striking skills on babies like me... who could neither fight with them nor could go to I D Singh Sir.... never mind....

I remember an instance that one of our prefects "Pradeep Singh" of class IX- C in 1988, came to our class during tiffin hours after receiving some allegations from one of my class mates. Some boys created super sonic voice in the class and prefects came to our class. He beaten up 7 to 8 boys ... Pradeep was my Prayer mate on the stage ...so I dared to ask.. "Bhai mera kya kasoor hai...... badmashi kisi aur ne kee aur pit gaya mai.... " then I listened a proverb for the first time from his mouth ..."Hamare U.P. me ek kahawat hai... Gehu ke sath Dhoon bhi Pisa Jata hai .... " I could not understand that meaning.. so he told that there is a bacteria inside the Wheat Grain and that bacteria is also crushed during processing of flour from wheat..... Asshole.... I could not understand it on that day.

So ... Tiffin....

we were not allowed to eat in our class or on the floors... we were allowed to eat in the Assembly Hall, or in the corridors or in the ground floor. However, when we attained seniority ..i.e. Class X ... we never went downstairs to eat except when there was a need of some Kachoris or Singharas or Moodi... otherwise Class X students of all the 3 sections used to eat in the class after closing the door.

There was one Moodiwala, One Falwala , One Idli Wala and One Kachoriwala. Kachoriwala hailed from Bikaner...he used to sell a kachori by mixing curd and masala.... I think we never got that taste back at any other places. However, never to forget .. there was an icecream seller outside the school and we could purchase those ice creams from the corner of the school mate... it was a smuggling. But that ice cream got taste.

The students of nearby localities could make an ID card and they could go to their homes to eat and comeback before closure of tiffin hour. If somebody comes late..his house marks would be deducted and he would be presented before the house master. Those things I have already mentioned in earlier blogs.

Hence, there was a process of review of attendance in the beginning of the fifth period i.e. just after the lunch. Teachers used to take attendance in their own way... specially by S N Pathak who was a Sanskrit and Hindi Teacher but always used to take attendance in English. Our life science teacher had a unique style ..... he always said... Apne Daayen aur Baayen dekh lo ..koi missing hai kya ..? (check your classmate in the right or left ..if anybody is missing, please let me know) . In my class nobody were ever dared to be absent... that means we never heard an incidence that somebody went out of the school during tiffin hours. Fifth Period attendance was strictly followed.

When we used to go down during tiffin hours ... it was Mr. S S Ram (Ram Babu) who always stood at the end of the stairs on the corridor ... we used to salute him like Army men and he was happy to see boys. It was the discipline of Tantia that we could not break lines not even on a single day. When Ram Babu Retired.... Mr. K N Singh Second ( P T Teacher) took over the responsibility from Ram Babu and he used to present when students came to take their lunch on the ground floor.

The tiffin time was 12:45 AM to 1:30 PM during 1986 to 1992... and it was same for next 10 to 12 years... so far as i know and tiffin time of Primary Section (Day) used to break at 1:15 PM ... so secondary section students and Primary Day section students used to take lunch at the same time. So why I am telling this.... ? Primary Students were taught by Ladies teachers.... Some of em were very young ..in their twenties and some were in their thirties.... some of our school teachers used to be present during Tiffin hours to watch those ladies teachers or to talk with them. I am not blaming anybody ...all were young and there was nothing wrong :) :) in it. Some teachers were quite habituated and they always tried to impress our ladies teachers of Primary Section. ..I will tell the name of those teachers... but one of them was quite smart to impress ladies.

Those students who were privileged to go home to take lunch ... students used to pay some paise or Rupees to buy some SUPARI, PAN PARAG, OR CHOCOLATES from outside... obviously with a mandatory cut.

There are some more interesting individual stories.... will tell ... enjoy .. and god bless u ..




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Diary of Meeting on 15 August 2014 - Batch of 92

Rendezvous with old friends on 15 August 2014 was quite exciting. I met , Sunil Saraogi , Chapparia & Ginoria, Prakash, Pawan, Anish, Ashok, Manish Choudhary, Didwania & Thakkar, Sanjay, Rahul, Jitender, Alok, Anand, Ajay, Sandeep, Dr. Sid, Vikash Modi and Khattry, etc etc etc. Thanks for Vikash Khattry to invite me as I was not on  Watsapp !!

We met just outside Bhikharam Kankurgachi and waited for more frenz. Our meeting was quite good and as usual typical Tantia type conversation were being listened from people. In nutshell , all are still same.

• Jain brought Roses for everybody. Thanks bhai... 
• Anish maintained his weight :) neither put on more  nor lost 
• Didwania &  Alok have maintained their charming face. They are still in their twenties
• Dr. Sid was not showing his clinical abilities during our meeting, he looked to be an Alumni of good old Tantia
• Jitender and Ashok - host of the party. Big heart they have and that's good !!
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• Manish Thakkar , the person whose appearance completely changed. 
• Anand was lost in his dark googles but looked smart
• Sanjay Jain appeared to be more civilised than his school days .....
• Manish Chaudhary ..... as expected .... did not change and perhaps never change. 
• Pawan doing PR.... he left after kachori meeting
• Samir Saraogi -- we need some more guys like him who bind everybody in a chain 
• Sunil Chapparia ... the guy does not speak like he appears to be on Whats app... looked good and still has boyish look. Congrats buddy
• Sunil Ginoria .......fantastic face... he did not recognise me ....also did not put on weight. I beat him in gaining weight 
• Sandeep Bhansali still holds the same smile on his face as it used to be during school days. His smile said he was very happy to meet all of us. 
• Rahul Sonthalia .... his neck was in bad shape.. I hope he is completely fine. 
• Ajay Chaudhary - hhhhhhh , he should leave his beard. Otherwise everything else was good. 
• Vikash -  came late .........Boss leave Pan Parag or Rajni Sajni Gandha ( Ganda ) , it kills your communication skill and interrupts in your speaking abilities ( that means, Public Chutia nahi banegi ). Now he is very matured and gained lots of experience , it appears :)
• Prakash -- I reminded him that we had a fight in school but he forgot me so how could he remember the fight. His face did not change much
• Manish Jalan - Still he has the same lambai and patli kamar !! 
• Vikash Modi - Looked good and Same

Boss not writing for others ......forgot names ..........hope after one or two meetings I shall update this page with the memories of 15 Aug 2014

Manish Didwania and others proposed to go to "NASHTA" in gully behind Bhikahram to have Kachori and Jalebi as it appeared to impossible to enjoy in closely confined Bhikharam. We were not able to abuse each other, cannot talk in our Tantia Style .... So decided to eat Kachori Sabzi and Jalebi in Nastha. The plan was good

Went to Nastha and others joined... Good hot club Kachories with Alu Ka Saag and Garma Garam Jalebis. Jitender , Ashok pl.ayed the role of host. We enjoyed round after round of Jalebi and Kachoris !! 

People were talking about the changed appearance of Manish Thakkar and  Youth of Anand Sancheti. We witnessed forgettable talks between Manish Didwania and Manish Chaudhry. 

Friends appeared to be more inclined on having liquor and they were talking about the evening liquor / cocktail party at Salt lake. 

Enter Khattry ...... he was given a fresh plate of Kachori and we all listened him

Nastha was blessed on that day !! 

Then we all went to have tea at Haryana Sweets near Phool Bagan. There every body on the road were staring at us as some of us came in old form. The voice of us was so loud that it was attracting the attention of people passing. 

People were talking about their common colleagues in previous and current jobs, sharing info about each other. Frenz enjoyed a small argument on Shuddh Hindi sentences between me and Manish. We all reminded Manish that he was once a head boy of Tantia High School. The only headboy who became headboy in the mid of the year after the forced expulsion of a bad working headboy. Manish was not happy to be reminded about those story..

We took some phtographs and departed........photos now on Facebook ....... 

Perhaps some more meetings like this........in near future..........

Something more on N.N.Mishra ...

Thanks to my brothers for liking my recollections of Tantia days......Lets share some more memories of our great Hindi Teacher . ............... N . N .Mishra ji

It was only N N Mishra who was hard to be utilised by I D Singh for multipurposes. Hence he was given some more additional responsibilities :

• He is the librarian of Tantia High School Library. We were supposed to get one Hindi Book per year to read and return. But were not issued any book from class eight to ten. However, one book I read " Edison ki kahani  in class V , that is still in my memories. After that I could not get any chance to read about the great scientist "Thomas Edison"
• He was the chief coordinator of Tulsi Jayanti , Premchand Jayanti --- i.e. functions in which there was no inter house competition. We used to prepare for songs at Tulsi Jayanti in his Library in the presence of K P Mishra and S D Dwivedi. However, I never saw him singing and to teach how to sing a particular line. Me, Pawan Bhatia, Kunj Bihari Bhatia, Dinesh Vyas ( Now an Acharya -- I appeal every brothers to take his services for Marriage , Namkaran Sanskar and other Mangalik Functions... he is a good acharya / Pandit) , Vijay Agarwal, Vineet Khaitan ( for lecture on Tulsidas ji ) and others. However, the practice were closely monitored by S K Mishra. Sometimes N N Mishra ji was called by I D Singh to update him on practice of Tusli Jayanti and sometimes we had to sing before him... you can imagine ........the pressure of singing before him in his chamber .......... 
• N N Mishra was also a permanent judge in functions of  Antakshari and Inter house Hindi debate. But he was always unbiased at the time of awarding marks during competition. The result of Antakshari and debates were audited by D N Jha and Y Singh and they always used to produce the report with marks just after the lecture of I D Singh after every functions. 
• N N Mishra had nothing to do with Annual school sports. On that day , he used to mingle with classics like J K Singh.
• It was impossible for us to understand the assembly speech of N N Mishra. I think it was hard to understand by a few teachers too. Impeccable hindi was always a challenge for us. Once I heard the word " DRISHITKONE" , after that the entire speech was a bouncer. It was impossible for S K Bhattacharya to understand anything from the speech from N N Mishra
• In our Annual School function we had one section - Hindi 's one act play i.e. EKANKI .. N N Mishra  was the chief supervisor of that One act play ( Natak ). How he used to handle that , its a life long curiosity for me.
• He was our Hindi Prose teacher in Class IX. First term examinations used to held like class test. He challenged us to write answers from Hindi Guide or taking the help of text books ....... he proposed us to take help.........we took help........but none of the boy could pass in that exam. He wrote one line from the first lesson " Meri Jiwan Gatha of Acharya Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi" .. the line was " Mai yadi kisi ka atyachar sahan kar loon , to isse meri sahansheelta ka bodh awasya hota hai , parantu isse mujhe doosron ke uper krodh karne ka adhikar prapt nahi ho jata " ... and he asked the first question from that line " Atyachar kis prakar ka Achar hai" ............. ab kya likhen ????

We realised after leaving the school that we lost a great opportunity to learn a better Hindi. When we were student we did not like some of his lectures, but after I personally felt sorry. 

will update more.............

pls dont consider english general mistakes..........without review I have written everything.

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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.

R.S.Rai - Tough man History teacher

Our one of the History teachers Mr. R.S.Rai ( Ram Sapath Rai) was on the toughest teachers of our school. He never shared with us a single moment of his life. He was never informal with any student and never asked tuitions !! He was a true and royal rai Saheb. He possessed good rapport with colleagues specially with H.R.Jha and D.N.Jha. But he was very cruel with students. His favourite weapon was " Duster" , once he started , it was impossible to stop him. Once he beat a boy , he could not sleep in the night. But it did not change him. In section B of class IX and X , he used to teach history. He used to bring an old history book and used to read fastly. Students named him " 80 word / minute". Once he fell down from his chair and a student laughed ( he was his relatives , though) but he was not merciful on him and he had to pay for his smile.
His way of delivering speech in the assembly hall was very unique. From his right hand , he holds the mike and never lefts till the completion of speech. From class V to X , we were fortunate to listen him atleast ten times , but he always used to pick one revolutionery patriot of pre independance India , whose description was not available in our text books. Always, he was very agressive while speaking ...... he starts with .....Pyaare bacchon , tumne Vinayak chapekar ka naam suna hoga, wo ek mahan krantikari thaa............................. log jel jaane lage, rail ki patriyaan ukhadi jaane lagin, videshi kapade jalaye jaane lage, sarkari daftaron me aag lagayi jaane lagi.......... were common in all of his speeches. We enjoyed a lot. Once , one of the teachers told to my freind, jab bhi ham log ko nasta karna hota hai, hum Rai sahab ko hi to khojte hain ,sabse pahle nastha karenge, paisa denge aur taxi pakdenge........
In class V he was our english Grammar teacher and taught only 50 % of his times, but syllabus was completed. His way of taking attendence was also unique.... he used to get excited while taking attendence .......one , twoooo, threeeeee, for,fiveee, six,sebun, at, nine , ten, elebun, tuwelve, thirty, forty, fifty,sixty,seventy,eighty,ninety, tuwenty, ...............and so on......with a lot of pressure in his voice. In class VI .. he was our history teacher, .. the best teacher to put signature .. he never saw the last page .... just put corrections and sign.......never read the copy ... not even in examinations.......... One of my class mate... Jitendra Jain ....wrote about Maharana Pratap in the question of Shivaji in Pre test examinations , he got maximum marks for that question and he shew us , as we could see our Pre Test copies.......... God bless our teachers...... one thing was clear , he loved school and he loved India.

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....

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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