DISCLAIMER: Like most of my posts, this is being written from the top of my head. Readers understanding sought.
“tell me how many balls can you see,” the senior said pointing a Hingis poster on the wall. She swung her racket and the tennis ball appeared three times in the poster.
“one,” I responded.
“Trying to be smart,” he said motioning me to move aside.
The next came and he replied, “three.”
“its five, isn’t it?” the senior asked, “look carefully.”
“Anyway we welcome you all to this hostel. Stay well, be on time and be proud of your hostel (read house) at all times.” The senior said shaking hands.
Another day
“where did you go today?” a hairy senior asked, caressing his sculpted belly. Obvious indication that he hadn’t escaped hardships of an SSGian’s life.
“PWD da”
“who did you ask?”
“No one da”
“You got wings already?” the senior said sending his arms flying to the junior’s cheek.
The junior ran away the following night with a broken ear drum.
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Last evening I was talking to a friend of mine, as we waited at the crowded BRT signal in Delhi. It started as a passing comment on the racist attacks on Indian students in Australia. I added my inputs from an article that said how Delhi was equally racist in treating students (as well as employed men) from the Northeast in no known ways of moderateness and understanding. My friend said, Delhi does it because no one has a sense of belongingness to this city. Buy or grab land, build house, get a car and there you go…just rent them. And this city is more yours than those who come seeking for your house on rent!
Respect for others come from your sense of belongingness (community) she said. I curled my eyebrows in slight disagreement and she quickly added,
“when you are in a community, there is an elder guiding you.”
The traffic signals in BRT Delhi is notoriously slow during peak hours and I turned off the ignition of my car. She continued, “racism is much like ragging, you never know where to stop it. And when the fun turns into racism and violence.”
I muttered something and the light ahead turned green. Ragging in Sainik School Goalpara is a debatable issue. Its undoubtedly wrong many a times. But I am afraid if I am going to criticize it until I can come up with an useful alternate. An alternate that can uphold the very spirit of being an SSGian. I take a further step and feel compelled to divulge that ‘ragging’ in sainik school Goalpara is different from the ragging that we read in newspapers. Many will agree, many will not. I wasn’t sure if I could make sense trying to put them into words, and explain it to her. Like most other experiences of being an SSGian.
Racism & Ragging (Vis-a-vis attacks in Australia)
Welcome Speech..!!!
Hi,
This is my first post to this blog. At the very onset, I extend my regards to all the seniors, fellow batch mates, juniors and readers. :)
Well did I make it sound like the typical welcome speech given before any event in our school. :)
I think the welcome speech was the only thing that was constant (read never-changed) during my (our) stay at SSG. There was a single script which has been repeated by almost everyone standing at the podium welcoming the audience for any occasion, be it debate, recitation, elocution.. etc etc. The only changes were in the names of Principal, Headmaster, Registrar and sometimes the senior master too..!!
I still remember the phrase from that never-changed speech…
“….I would be failing in my duty if I don’t welcome the students without whom it would be like staging the Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark…”
Well apart from welcome speech there were two other things which never changed in any of the competitions.
Yes, one is the person in the role of the time keeper..!!! Some of us might have guessed it by now.. Its none other than NA..! :)
And the other person…
All of us remember the catch phrase we used to scream in harmony :) when there was a power cut…
This is my first post to this blog. At the very onset, I extend my regards to all the seniors, fellow batch mates, juniors and readers. :)
Well did I make it sound like the typical welcome speech given before any event in our school. :)
I think the welcome speech was the only thing that was constant (read never-changed) during my (our) stay at SSG. There was a single script which has been repeated by almost everyone standing at the podium welcoming the audience for any occasion, be it debate, recitation, elocution.. etc etc. The only changes were in the names of Principal, Headmaster, Registrar and sometimes the senior master too..!!
I still remember the phrase from that never-changed speech…
“….I would be failing in my duty if I don’t welcome the students without whom it would be like staging the Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark…”
Well apart from welcome speech there were two other things which never changed in any of the competitions.
Yes, one is the person in the role of the time keeper..!!! Some of us might have guessed it by now.. Its none other than NA..! :)
And the other person…
All of us remember the catch phrase we used to scream in harmony :) when there was a power cut…
“OOOOOIIIIIII SARKARRRRRRRR…”
We actually waited for the power cut for this. :)
Yes, I am taking about Sarkar Da, I think almost all the batches have seen him there for all the competitions and events, morning assemblies during their stay at school…!
I would wind up for now, and it feels like school again..!!!
Deep
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My First advendutre (1st polai juwa experience)
There is lot to tell about Sainik School Goalpara. Today I am going to share my first adventure in SSG.We were promoted to class 8 and were shifted to Anirudha house. Fortunately or unfortunately our house master changed from P K jena to H k Jha (I know wat u guys must be thinking...his C**walk...hehehe). Although we did lot of stuff back then in Abhimanyu & Bhaskar house; this was going to be diffrent.
A bunch of us decided to go to "Surya pahar mela" (for those who don't know about it....surya pahar mela is organised every year near surya pahar). Surya pahar mela was like a unofficial roadies task for us. The rules were simple....visit the mela atleast once.
For seniors - don't get caught by school authority...
and for poor juniors like us - dont get busted by seniors and ofcourse authority.
So few of us decided to go for the mission. Since it was a mission in another territory we did all the risk management and mission briefing. We ensured that noone else knew about it. We all went with our normal daily activities that day. Studied in the prep time,went for dinner came back, participated in post dinner gossips (adda), then came the lights off whistle!
we all went to our bed and then after somtime i hear someone, "shhhh...its time...!!!". I got into a dark dress and went behind room no 1. (yes near the fence). One by one all ninjas arrived...all fully dressed in black. Some in track suits, some injacket...even with that "bandor topi" (Monkey caps). The dress was supposed to help us make invisible in the dark night. Somone asked how are we goin to move in the dark dat too through the obstacle ground and those bushes...??chandan saikia took out a small torch with weak battery - so that it didnt glow much. Since we were trained in camouflage and concealment, we did all we knew to be invisible.
2300 hrs - we started our mission by taking a vow - if somone gets caught noone will tell anyone's name. Suddenly I felt somone coming and I could feel the adreline rush in me. But it turned out to be just a shadow...someone was peeing in front of the room no 1 corridor.
"uff close call!"
Anyways we moved on. The tricky part was crossing the obstacle ground as it was open and anyone from senior house could see us. We croosed it and finally reached the main road. Now we decided not to move through the main road as someone might notice us and mistake us as thieves. So we moved along the trees and bushes parallel to the road. The road was never ending and surya pahar was not coming. After 1 hr or so we finally reached the mela. We all hurrayed and went to all the possible shops and ate like we were hungry from ages.(althoug only few shops wer open, at that time of the night). We watched half of a movie, which was screend there. It was fun watching in that cold open air. We returnd late....so it was easy to get inside. We were very happy and excited as we pioneerd it..
we all went for an hour's sleep as it was PT time again. Next day we told some guys about it and we became like the coolest guys and evryone wanted to go now. We asked them not to go now as it might be dangerous as we heard few seniors were caught the day we went. Next day few of our friends went and became martyrs as there was a headcount that night.
anyways that was my 1st adventure in ssg...(1st polai juwa )and yea i m sayin as my 1st adventure cos our dear H K Jha used to find all these 'adventure'...hehehe!! after that i was caught once for bunking school....wil tell u about it later...!! till den chao...!!!
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A bunch of us decided to go to "Surya pahar mela" (for those who don't know about it....surya pahar mela is organised every year near surya pahar). Surya pahar mela was like a unofficial roadies task for us. The rules were simple....visit the mela atleast once.
For seniors - don't get caught by school authority...
and for poor juniors like us - dont get busted by seniors and ofcourse authority.
So few of us decided to go for the mission. Since it was a mission in another territory we did all the risk management and mission briefing. We ensured that noone else knew about it. We all went with our normal daily activities that day. Studied in the prep time,went for dinner came back, participated in post dinner gossips (adda), then came the lights off whistle!
we all went to our bed and then after somtime i hear someone, "shhhh...its time...!!!". I got into a dark dress and went behind room no 1. (yes near the fence). One by one all ninjas arrived...all fully dressed in black. Some in track suits, some injacket...even with that "bandor topi" (Monkey caps). The dress was supposed to help us make invisible in the dark night. Somone asked how are we goin to move in the dark dat too through the obstacle ground and those bushes...??chandan saikia took out a small torch with weak battery - so that it didnt glow much. Since we were trained in camouflage and concealment, we did all we knew to be invisible.
2300 hrs - we started our mission by taking a vow - if somone gets caught noone will tell anyone's name. Suddenly I felt somone coming and I could feel the adreline rush in me. But it turned out to be just a shadow...someone was peeing in front of the room no 1 corridor.
"uff close call!"
Anyways we moved on. The tricky part was crossing the obstacle ground as it was open and anyone from senior house could see us. We croosed it and finally reached the main road. Now we decided not to move through the main road as someone might notice us and mistake us as thieves. So we moved along the trees and bushes parallel to the road. The road was never ending and surya pahar was not coming. After 1 hr or so we finally reached the mela. We all hurrayed and went to all the possible shops and ate like we were hungry from ages.(althoug only few shops wer open, at that time of the night). We watched half of a movie, which was screend there. It was fun watching in that cold open air. We returnd late....so it was easy to get inside. We were very happy and excited as we pioneerd it..
we all went for an hour's sleep as it was PT time again. Next day we told some guys about it and we became like the coolest guys and evryone wanted to go now. We asked them not to go now as it might be dangerous as we heard few seniors were caught the day we went. Next day few of our friends went and became martyrs as there was a headcount that night.
anyways that was my 1st adventure in ssg...(1st polai juwa )and yea i m sayin as my 1st adventure cos our dear H K Jha used to find all these 'adventure'...hehehe!! after that i was caught once for bunking school....wil tell u about it later...!! till den chao...!!!
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Sainik School Goalpara: schooldays pics
check out some pics of schooldays !!!
these pics were uploaded by Debasish Hazarika from 1997-2004 batch...hope u all like it...!!
Sainik School Goalpara: Images by Debasish
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