Guwahati.. The life Spent...

Guwahati... The place where I was born and spent the entire 16 years.Guwahati was wonderful place to be born and spend the childhood.There was wonderful environment for studies. Good schools were less though in our times, but now I have heared that some good CBSE board schools has come up.In our times most of the schools were recognized by SEBA the Govt: board of education.

My Parent provided all of us the best of the education available. Guwahati was a new city sprawling up, that time. The only city for the entire NE.
When I was in class III or IV, there started the ANDOLAN, that they called.ANDOLAN against the peple from differnt states, regarded as foreigner by the Locals. Foreigner in our own land.
Thousand moved out of the state and found refuge in nearby states of Meghalaya, Tripura, Bengal and others.People from Bihar, UP and other North Indian States had tough time. I remember being in a crowded meter gauge train GL, without reservation as no reaservation was available and we had to run out of the state.GL many memories in this train, will have another Post on it.

After the Andolan,Prafull Phukan;s Govt. came in being.Indias Youngest Chief Minister. The Andolan became the guiding force of the Student Politics in India. AGP was founded. Months later, we returned, Education was hampered, I remember, but Yes, as a child think. Pleasent Holiday were over.

One Good thing about Assam is that, they have utmost respect for the teachers. A teacher is regarded as God. One of my teacher was Liza Miss. She was an Extremely knowledgeable person.I remember the pomp and fare during the Sarawati Puja in schools. We would spend the whole night in the school, and she was always there to guide us with new designs to make our show the Best every time. For us it was more Like a Picnic Camp fire, When we would light up a big chulha with wood fire and then prepare the Khichdi for everyone and then the tea, while some of our mates would be Busy decorating tha Pandal. We were so excited and happy when we danced over the DI DI song by Khaled the Algerian Singer and Yes, Baba was out with his Thanda Thanda Pani song.

Friends were great.Many of them..Sunil, Diaganto, Santosh alias BullDogg, Amit-Vineet Duo, Vijay, BabuRam..and many many more.They were all school friends. The locals were Pramod, Yogesh, Kishore, Harpinder, Kripal, Babu to name a few. We spent a large part of our Chutti playing Cricket in the Central school. Our teams name was EKTA CRICKET CLUB, on team unity and jokingly on Kishore's first girlfriend EKTA.
We often had matches with the Assamese local team and we use to lose largely due to BaiMaani.LBW was the main reason.LBW BaiMaani was quite common and then when we scrapped LBW in one of the match,We Won.

I passed the high school in 1994 and then came to UP for further education. Though I visted Guwahati in 1997 and then in 2008 but the memories of the place will always be fresh in my mind forever.