Should I type a TC for you? (Transfer certificate), growled the balding principle donning his green uniform.
I looked down, and the threat subsided and he agreed to offer me a week’s extra drill instead of handing me a TC.
There are very few, who won’t have heard it at least once during their life in Sainik School Goalpara (during my tenure between 1994-2001 as a student). The studious gets it and so do the ruffians, the gentle as well as the unruly ones. I survived many such threats during my seven years stay and always managed to come out safe writing a letter of apology or getting an extra drill at the most or at times getting a pat on my back, for being nice overall.
Here are 10 classic ways of getting to see a TC in Sainik School Goalpara:
- Go to the out of bound PWD canteen during the prep time hours and wish the nomadic principle, ‘good evening’ on your way back from PWD.
- Use the short cut through the athletic ground during the PT run, when the principal is performing push ups, in the middle of the athletic ground.
- Run away to Goalpara without permission, and share a seat with a teacher in the bus.
- Enter the House through a secret passage (like a broken window) after a late night expedition and find the principal lending you a helping hand, in entering through it.
- Hit a junior and don’t bother to threaten him with dire consequences, if he takes up the matter with authorities.
- Steal cattle that roam in the campus, eat it and forget to conceal the left over.
- Be a topper for a year and then flunk in the exams.
- Earn an EPD (exempted from PT & Drill) from the doctor, after pretending to be sick & then get spotted by the principal playing cricket in the quadrangle.
- Explode a cracker 3 months before Diwali or splash colour days ahead of Holi or both.
- Find a junior coming towards you as you are speaking to the principal. You find the junior very familiar, but can only recall once he comes and says, ‘Da you gave me a meet’.