Girish's Blog

I had been so looking forward to this event I feel drained out now and am suffering from withdrawal symptoms – the only cure is to have another re-union soon. Guys we had the most rollicking time ever. Bharat Kakodkar was down from Pune and he drove me down from Andheri to school (I sent my car home – no point taking two cars). In the past six months I have passed school at least ten times on the way to the Sales Tax office in Mazgaon (you get to go there if your stars are reealllllly baaad) but never had the mood to drop into school – though the thought did cross my mind a couple of times! Bharat and I caught up with each others lives post school over the hour odd long drive. It was really nice to see that the old boy has not changed a bit in spite of life’s twists and turns. We reached school at 8pm sharp and met up with a whole lot of buddies after 32 loooonnnnggggggg years! Adarbad was there with our entry passes, God bless him! We had a whale of a time yakking, eating bunchops, gu...

There is a movement going on, initiated by Philip deSouza, to get in touch with all the students who passed out in 1977. The movement has gathered in frenzy and almost everyone from the batch have jumped on to the bandwagon. A Facebook group has been created where all the people are now connecting, thereby bringing back extremely warm and fond memories of the great time we had at school. The purpose of writing this blog is not to go on and on about the batch, but rather to highlight the fact that the school gave us all not only a great academic education but also instilled in all of us values which, I am sure, - I speak for the entire batch – have stood the test of time. I was just going through the list of students, and what strikes me now, is that there were so few “Maharashtrians” in the entire batch – we had students from all communities, Catholics, Parsis, Muslims, and Hindus – but never once in my entire ten years in school were we ever discriminated on grounds of race, religion,...