Whats App Groups of Tantia High School - 1992 batch

The batch of 1992 is still very much in touch. We regularly exchange messages, share moments of fun, and sometimes just chat about anything that comes to mind. At times, we host friendly quizzes, and other times, the messages get more emotional, touching our hearts. Recently, something unique happened that brought everyone together.

Dr. Siddhartha's son is studying at Miranda House in Kankurgachi, and there was an informal competition to see which student could get the most likes on Facebook. Siddhartha made a request, and we all took it as a mission. It was amazing to see how everyone rallied around, religiously promoting his son’s post. The spirit of the group was incredible — we all wanted to make Siddhartha’s son the winner.

In a humorous twist, Sanjay Kulthia advertised it as his own son and received some hilarious comments from his friends! There were also some more serious members, like Vikash, who religiously kept us updated with the latest numbers. You could feel that, deep down, we all would have been thrilled if Mayank won.

Among the most lively members in the group is Sunil Chapparia, who makes sure that no one forgets that we're all still men! He keeps the group buzzing with messages and photos, some of which are award-winning collections.

The main promoters of both groups are Vikash Khattry and Pawan Gupta. Although we chat about a lot of things, school never seems to come up much anymore — but at least we're still in touch. Even after more than a year, we haven't managed to add everyone to the group, and though there was talk of merging the two groups, it never quite happened. The reason for that remains unclear.

The playful banter between Sunil Saraogi and Sunil Chapparia has calmed down a bit these days. Meanwhile, we’ve got a number of drink lovers in the group, constantly sharing photos of themselves with bottles and glasses, their eyes clearly telling us they’re enjoying drinks with old friends.

It’s not all fun and games, though. We also share vacation pictures, celebrate proud moments when our children achieve something, and send condolences when a member loses a loved one. We come together to vote in online competitions, or to sell extra IPL match tickets — these little things keep the group spirit alive.

Of course, there are also moments of tension. Recently, there were sharp arguments between Amit Sharma and Vikash Khattry, which stirred things up a bit.

As the years pass, it seems our friends have developed a habit of posting photos with their drinks — rum, whiskey, wine — and the praise they give each other for those pictures has become almost a tradition.

But in the end, we keep the group alive, and we keep sending comments. It’s all part of staying connected and enjoying the bonds that have lasted over the years.

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Top five exciting events of Tantia High School : A tradition of success

Our school was always successful in organizing events, and students were thoroughly trained to participate in and manage everything from small gatherings to large celebrations. The Principal also took an active role in both organizing and participating in events, no matter the size.

Here are the top five events that were always highlights of the school year:

1. Annual School Sports
2. Annual Function
3. Independence Day / Republic Day Celebrations
4. Saraswati Puja
5. Antakshari Competitions

These events were not just well-organized, but they became a part of the school’s tradition, bringing the entire community together. They are still fresh in our memories, each one filled with excitement, participation, and school spirit!

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Rendezvous with Old Friends – 15th August 2014

The gathering on 15th August 2014 was nothing short of exciting. I met up with Sunil Saraogi, Chapparia, Ginoria, Prakash, Pawan, Anish, Ashok, Manish Choudhary, Didwania, Thakkar, Sanjay, Rahul, Jitender, Alok, Anand, Ajay, Sandeep, Dr. Sid, Vikash Modi, Khattry, and a few others. A big thank you to Vikash Khattry for inviting me, as I wasn’t on WhatsApp at the time!

We met just outside Bhikharam in Kankurgachi and waited for a few more friends to arrive. The reunion was as lively as ever, with the typical Tantia-style conversations filling the air. In short, everyone was still the same at heart.

A Few Highlights from the Meet:

• Jain brought roses for everyone. Thanks, bhai!
• Anish has managed to maintain his weight — neither gained nor lost any.
• Didwania and Alok still have their charming faces, and they look like they’re still in their twenties.
• Dr. Sid didn’t show off his clinical skills this time, but he seemed to be the same old alumni of Tantia.
• Jitender and Ashok were the hosts of the party. Big-hearted as always!
• Manish Thakkar looked completely different. His appearance had changed quite a lot.
• Anand was hiding behind dark sunglasses, but still looked sharp.
• Sanjay Jain appeared more civilized than during school days — a pleasant change!
• Manish Choudhary was as expected — unchanged, and probably never will be.
• Pawan was busy doing PR and left after the kachori session.
• Samir Saraogi — we need more people like him who can keep everyone connected and bind the group together.
• Sunil Chapparia looked great! He doesn’t talk like he does on WhatsApp, but still had that boyish charm. Congrats, buddy!
• Sunil Ginoria looked fantastic and didn’t recognize me at first — though I’ll admit, I beat him in the weight-gain department!
• Sandeep Bhansali still carries the same warm smile he had in school. It was clear how happy he was to meet everyone.
• Rahul Sonthalia seemed to be recovering from a neck injury. Hope he's fully recovered now.
• Ajay Chaudhary — hahaha, he really needs to ditch the beard. Otherwise, everything else was good.
• Vikash came late, but he was in good form. Note to Vikash: leave Pan Parag or Rajni Sajni Gandha (Ganda)! It’s killing your communication skills, my friend! But he’s definitely more mature now and seems to have gained a lot of experience.
• Prakash — I reminded him that we once had a fight in school, but he forgot all about it. His face hasn’t changed much, though.
• Manish Jalan — Still has the same height and slim waist!
• Vikash Modi — Looked great and pretty much the same as ever.

I’m sure I’ve missed some people — the names are getting blurry, but after one or two more reunions, I’ll update this page with more memories from the 15th of August meet.

Afterwards, Manish Didwania and others suggested going to "Nashta" — the little shop behind Bhikharam — to enjoy Kachori and Jalebi. It was clear that we couldn’t enjoy the full Tantia-style banter in such a confined space, so we made our way to Nashta.

It was a great decision! We had hot, crispy Kachoris with Aloo Saag and steaming hot Jalebis. Jitender and Ashok were the hosts again, keeping everything in order while we enjoyed round after round of snacks.

People couldn’t stop talking about how Manish Thakkar’s appearance had changed, and how Anand Sancheti still looked so youthful. There were a few forgettable conversations between Manish Didwania and Manish Choudhary, but nothing too serious.

Most of the group seemed to be more focused on having drinks later in the evening. The talk was about a liquor/cocktail party they were planning at Salt Lake.

Enter Khattry… He was given a fresh plate of Kachori, and we all listened to him with great attention.

Nashta was truly blessed that day!

Afterward, we headed to Haryana Sweets near Phool Bagan for tea. The passersby were staring at us, especially since some of us had returned to our “old form.” Our loud voices certainly attracted attention, and we could feel people wondering who these enthusiastic group of friends were.

The conversation shifted to colleagues from past and current jobs, and we shared information about each other. There was a fun little argument about Shuddh Hindi (pure Hindi) between me and Manish. We reminded him that he was once the head boy of Tantia High School — the only head boy who became head boy mid-year after the expulsion of the previous head boy. Manish wasn’t too thrilled to be reminded of that story.

We took some photos to capture the memories and then parted ways. Those photos are now on Facebook for everyone to relive the moment.

Here’s hoping for more such meet-ups in the near future.

Incorporation of an Alumni association of Tantia High School

Dear Frenz,

Please send your ideas to incorporate an alumni association of Tantia High School . You all must be associated with good and reputed organisation. Kindly share your thoughts to establish a good association for we alumni.

The ideas shall be around :

1. Objectives
2. Name of the organisation
3. Governing Body - name of the members , Chairman , president, VP.
4. Forms
5. Fees
6. Activities
7. Development of School
8. Meetings
9. Scholarships and schemes
10. Ideas to attract more students
11. Honour of our old beloved teachers
12. Help to old teachers in case of need
13. Help to our old freinds in case of need
14. Periodical meetings in our school
15. Events of Alumni
16. Web site
17. Accounts, audit, election , programmes, etc.

etc . etc .etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

The most important thing.......... huge number of members and their presence........

Please send your all valuable suggestions...........

You may keep on sending good ideas. at this blog or at the email ID of Vikash Khatry ..which shall be posted in facebook in coming days.......


:)

Yours Bhaskar

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.