Recollecting Mahe trip in tranqulity:Meeting a few students was a bonus in life.wi mahe make me hungry in future too when it satisfies now?

Like the first love, first poem and the first kiss,which no one can forget, to me personally the first batch of my students  I adore most in my life .It so happened that for more than 40 years I could not go back to the region which gave me a job and some training in teaching. The first  alumni meet was held last year September and after 43 years I saw my old young students who had crossed above sixty now.Kodiyeri Balakrishnan the former home minister of kerala our first batch iii group student was the special invitee   and this year I found myself again here for two days after attending a conference at St Joseph college, Payyanoor.

Pushpajan and Rajan were informed earlier and they took care.The unexpected hartal did not allow me to visit Thalaserry.Sitting near the sea and ruminating over the past in a typical monsoon time was an experience by itself.Le café provided Iddli  vada and a good working lunch.By strange quirk of fate I met  kumaran, Soman,Premnath, and a few others on the Mahe walk path.Premnath told that sreedhan will come the next day

Pavithran, Rajan, and sreedharan used to sit in the front bench and sreedharan who completed MA literature surprised me by quoting a few from memory what I told in the class(70-72).

Sir, let me tell a few words- the arresting words and sentences you uttered in the class.  ….when one fellow was throwing an arrow towards a girl you told:

You think that you are a hero

Who can send arrow which

I cannot notice/see but

I can not only see that ,but also foresee that

After the exam is over you will be a zero

Referring to  a  student who refused to answer the question but kept on  laughing in the class how I lost control and shouted, he recalled:”when you are showing the teeth, something is burning in my heart”.

In the lecture on the evolution of money you told:”Man made money and afterwards money made man mad’

Sir,In the second year I was late in coming and sometimes not coming the college  and then you told  me:’Sreedharan  you are not what you were in the first  year   now a days you are regularly irregular”

And yet You used to appreciate me by saying that I am the one to grasp  in the first hearing   but sir  now I am not able to get in the first hearing but only in second or third.Premnath explained that he has hearing ptoblem.I could sense and feel the sense of humor.I could not spend more time with him as I had to leave with Pushpajan expected at any time and I wanted some breathing time to get ready.The previous day Rajan spent the whole evening with me along with his friend throwing a typical kerala food with fried fish and fish curry and many other things.

The magical spell of mahe will be a part of my self and I am grateful to the supreme for the economics breathed into my veins thro my teachers  chief among them is Prof.Sasankan from Kerala.I remember all of them on the eve of Teachers day