St Josephs Boys High Scool , Calicut...nostalgic memories
Basketball Champions- Earlier Posted on Orkut Community site of " St Josephs Boys High School, Calicut".
Many of you past and present students of St Josephs may not know that we in St Josephs when I was studying was a much feared team in Basketball. The techniques and fouls were simply outrageous. The forwards were excellent scorers with precision & the defenders (I was one) knew how to defend St Josephs, even if it meant not following the rule booknd hitting below the belt!!! The School Victory was more important than holidays, exam results, girls of next door St Josephs Girls School et etc... And for the very first time we had a National coach from Delhi...He was Abbas Ali Baig's (the famous cricketer) brother.Our traditional rivals used to be Ganapathy High School, Zamorins College and St Josephs College. And all the time we used to beat them in the yearly sports meet...In particular, I remember the final of the tournament which was held in West Hill Indoor stadium (wooden floors those days) when we won with a slender margin...and we were carried in a procession all the way from west hill to silk street in calicut(5 miles). Many of the boys had taken a hire cycle (10 ps for an hour) which was quite a sum those days (1967)...A father (priest) who was also with us in the procession was the most rowdiest of all in celebrating the victory all the way to school, but Head Master Anthraper SJ did not know that!!! And of course he was not wearing a cassock!!When I think back of the times in School, its truly a nostalgic memory and I am sure all of u would have had such fun times also...plz post your memories of events happenings at St Josephs, Calicut ..

That was for Orkuters on the community....plz do post ur memories of school life. on ur blog.. Insignificant events are significant memories to be treasured and shared for what they are worth!

Rama Sene and their ilk are basking in the glory of their projection into the limelight. The cost equation - benefit churns the magic potion of snatching the bytes, be it TV or the Newspapers. They never realised the spontaneous support from Nincompoops, Riff raffs, wayward despicables without a useful vocation, thieves hit by safer locks and CCTV (recession time?), pilfering bus conductors, auto rickshaw drivers who have joined the bandwagon of moral policing of India!!!! The shameful politicians who garnered votes on such pathetic criteria like caste/language/ are now soft pedalling the disgusting episode of Rame Sene goons hounding innocent girls having an outing with boys in the afternoon.

All the hooligans are now on bail and preparing with renewed gusto to get into the limelight once more .......they can do it with more boorish/rowdyish acts only, all in the name of protecting our culture. Should'nt we put a stop to this madness?? Their leaders are mad with ideas medieval to the core...the likes of them will push us back many centuries ...so is'nt it time to update the provisions of the Indian Penal Code provisions to deter such goons taking our Country into a retrograde mode? The hooligans should be tried under section 153 A which encompasses offences like disturbance of public tranquility and has deterrent sentences of upto 3 years. Rigourous imprisonment of 3 years should surely deter the likes of Rama Sene to be emboldened to do what they have done.

Holiday in Singapore

Landed in Singapore on 27th Dec & from then on its been a whirlwind tour of this beautiful country. The sights take your breath away. Everything is precision controlled. Its a dream city for those who drive cars in Bangalore. Here you do 120 0r even 140 within the city and very safely too..Normal cruising speeds within city hover around 90 kmph!!!!The Mass Rapid System (MRT)& LRT are popular and most citizens use them regularly. You have cars with a red number plate which indicates that they are for weekend & Public holiday cars!!!! Everything around this place is impressive. More to come from here...iN THE MEANWHILE wishing you a very happy 2009!!!

Decadence

The current political system spawns the local cable network guy / real estate agent / milk booth vendor /jobless rowdy elements/ Regional language chauvanists and the likes of them to aspire for being catapulted into the political arena with strappings way beyond their ultimate dreams. Believe it or not , milk men, petty shop keepers and cable guys have acquired Scorpios/Innovas/Accents by just selling a fraction of their land in Bangalore....& eying the political scenario!!! Where are we heading to at this rate???? The divisions of our Country started in 1956 just a few years after freedom. While Dr Bala Saheb Ambedkar initiated the freedom of downtrodden classes another class worked differently and divided us on linguistic basis...& today we have the scourge of language dividing the masses...its sooooo ridiculous and shameful that we have the seperatists in different forms in south of india.We can combat adversity of this form by dessimination only...Plz write to newspapers expressing your concern for decadence of the political system....and maybe more will ventilate vociferously.

VP Singh Passes away. Somebody asked why - a holiday?

HOLIDAYS FOR MOURNING?

Of course, a holiday should be declared whenever a former Prime Minister or President dies. In fact, a holiday should be declared when a politician dies cutting across party lines. Many of us miss the mournful sad tunes, which used to be aired on DD and radio whenever a leader died. This used to help us to grieve much better and keep solemn faces during the mourning. Oh, how we miss those bygone days!

Now, I do look forward for an unexpected holiday for my office so that those unfinished domestic odd jobs / like a repair job / repotting pots or lazing on the easy chair or even catching up with a movie in the multiplex can be done. The last time some one died I thought of the person so many times during the day - when I was in queue at the theatre I thought about the person - when I was shopping in the mall I did think of the great soul for if he hadn’t conked off I wouldn’t have been there. Even when I was having beer with friends in the afternoon I did think of the leader. Now, tell me how can you mourn when you go to office? You would be doing your routine mundane work without any thought or grief of the poor departed soul. I now keep a list of people holidays, who which might happen suddenly. You never know.

Editor dear, how can you even think of having a public debate on the subject? By this you might unwittingly elicit views so strong that the Govt may even get into a rethink mode on the idea. I dread the day!

Ajit Lakshmiratan

bangalore gridlocked on18th Nov 2008

silent sufferers phew!!! what a tolerant lot we are!! that we can tolerate nincompoops & sychopants rule the roost and take us for a ride (5 hours to cover 4 kms!!) in our own city we have stayed all our lives??? Farmers, who have never ever tilled the land landed in bangalore from the hometown of the guys who cry hoarse that they are "sons of the soil" - made merry whistling at women and girls alighting from school buses....do you feel like burying the so called sons of the soil in deep soil?? I do!! Where is judicial activism to put in place such happenings affecting the lives of peace loving law abiding Bangaloreans??? Shame on the leaders for insensitive utterances ..dont forget to throw them out in the next elections

mundane ramblings!!

Have been in and out of Bangalore in the past few months. Places like Haveri, Shimoga, Davangere, Hassan, Arsikere, Mangalore & Chitradurga were revisited. Travelling mostly by the state buses on interior mud roads and state highways the vastness of the places hits you. Simple folk tending their cattle and goats with a mobile phone close to the ear or a tractor driver juggling with two mobile phones while being overtaken by a honking and impatient bus driver trying to edge him off the narrow road are sights which make you sit up and realize that technology has finally arrived in the hinterland. Yet, there is a vast bridge between Bangalore city and the towns in the state. "Xeroxing done in all Langages" "Hair Cating saloon" "Chineez manchuri nudles" are common enough signages though even in Bangalore you can see some hilarious ones. Office work also took me to Mysore and the city was all poised with preparations for the Dasara Festival. What an extravaganza the finale was!!! The gaiety and splendour of the celebrations was a sight to behold.
I stayed just for a day or two in all the places except in Mysore where it was a little longer. The early morning walks were a pleasurable experience. Now back in Bangalore and getting ready to face the office routine..................more in the next . bye