Graduation was over and as expected I had topped the University. I was first class first. It sounded so good and I couldn't get over this head in the air feeling. I had achieved something. Let me share with you one extremely stupid thing that I had done once.
My brain cells go dead as soon as  Math is mentioned. I don't know what happens to me, but if you can visualise a rabbit caught infront of a strong light. The little rabbit gets frozen, his eyes are ready to bulge out and he just comes to a standstill. So that is what would happen to me before a math exam. This incident is of school. I was a boarder at Mount Carmel High School at hazaribagh and was taking tuition from our Math Sir, Mr. Rathore. At the tuition class he would blare out my name..Barsa, he would say, open your note book, concentrate, pay attention. In spite of his best effort and my diligence the block head portion of Math would find it very difficult to work out the steps.
So there was this test at Patna for deserving students to be given scholarship. My parents as well as school had high hopes from me so I was taken to Patna by my parents. After I finished my paper and came out my father asked me how I had faired. I told him, " everything was fine but there was one fraction problem that I could not solve."
"Do you remember it? Tell me" said my father.
"If you add  1/2 with 1/2 what will you get?" my response.
That was the day when my father must have given up all hope of my ever solving any mathematical problem.
Well, that was me!
So coming back to me after graduation where I had topped the University, I became a National Scholar getting a princely sum of Rs. 1200 per annum to pursue higher studies. ranchi University was looking forward to this topper joining them, but I had me eyes set on Delhi, so that is where I joined. Delhi University would not admit a student to post graduation studies before the age of 19. I was just 18, so I had to twiddle my thumb for one year before I could seek admission in Delhi University.
I therefore started teaching at a small private school Tagore International School at Lajpat Nagar. It was prep school and mostly little children from the neighbourhood came there. One of the teacher's knew my mother, so that is how I got inducted as a teacher, getting a paltry sum of Rs. 100 per month. I enjoyed myself with the nursery children who were cute and full of energy. there were English speaking classes also held after school got over, so I was asked to teach that too. Reminds me of the TV serial, "Zabaan Sambhal ke". Well my position was not that hilarious as I had mostly Indiann from different places. Women whose husbands wanted them to be able to converse in English  and so on and so forth.
Triloki meanwhile had also found a time pass kind of job in Delhi. He would sometimes meet me before school. Poorly paid creatures that we were , we would walk across the Ring Road into Lajpat Nagar and at a ram shackle tea stall, sit on a wooden bench and drink a cup of hot syrupy cup of tea.
Triloki was working with Marketing Research Corporation of India. Don't know why Mr. D'Costa the owner  wanted fresh Engineering graduates to work for him.

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BLUE, YELLOW AND GREEN.

BLUE, YELLOW, GREEN

Sometimes when the sun doesn’t shine as bright as you wish it did, when the rain drops do not cheer you up, when the first nip in the air heralding winter doesn’t run a shiver down your spine then, undoubtedly you are in the blues. 

It happens to all of us. All creatures big and small,  sharp and dull, pretty and ugly, tall and short, any which way you want to be measured- you are included in this universal law of nature. 

So what does one do when the blues hit you? 

I know, look for a yellow somewhere. Yellow, the colour of sunshine which is bright and warm, the sun flower bending backwards to look at her favourite sun, the colour of daffodils which shoot out of the earth as soon as spring arrives. Yellow is also the colour of sarson, the most romantic farms in rural Punjab are full of sarson,  yellow colour also represents Basant- spring in India. The fifth day of the advent of spring is celebrated in North India, and  almost everyone wears yellow clothes on that day. Do you know why? Because it is the cheapest and easiest dye to colour your clothes with turmeric. 

Turmeric is yellow and is also the harbinger of good health and brings radiance to your face. Every bride as well as bride groom adorns herself /himself with haldi (turmeric) before her wedding. It is considered so auspicious and good that in some states of India brides and bride grooms wear sarees and dhoti dyed yellow with turmeric. In some southern states the mangalsutra is also a  thread dyed with turmeric which the bride always wear. At the entrance of a number of houses in south India turmeric is smeared on the wood panel of the door.

So look for yellow and I can tell you for sure, you are sure to cheer up and forget the blues. 

In case yellow doesn’t cheer you up and takes you away from the blues, never mind, there is still some hope. When you mix blue and yellow together all that you are left with is the colour green. 

GREEN

Can anything beat that wonderful colour which soothes the eyes? Nature has abundantly granted us trees, forests, grass in the colour green. When you look at the bounty of nature you experience peace, tranquility, fresh air, plenty of oxygen and lots of shade under which you can rest awhile. You can play your flute if you are Krishna, or attain enlightenment if you are Gautam, or if you are just a simple human being, you can watch the woodpecker pecking away at the wood,  or look at a squirrel running up and down the tree trunk. You can hear the melodious singing of the cuckoo or hear the cacophony of numerous birds returning home after a days flight.

Green is surely the best colour to be in. Even in modern technology the green  sign says "go". So green is the colour of all seasons and all reasons.

Growth, greenery, green house, green room, green horn, green grocer, green light, evergreen. 

Just felt like writing all that without a reason. 

You didn't like what I wrote? Never mind, at least no one will turn green with envy now.