It was a fine sunny day and the Head Master of the village school, who was day dreaming in his cot which he has put in the school office suddenly disturbed by the knock on the door, disturbance suddenly irritate him but after all , he is the head master he had to see who dares to disturb him like this. O, he is the Postmaster, who was there to deliver some official letter, he yawned and moved his body unwillingly to accept the letter. As soon as he received the letter and opened it his sleep just disappear with the speed of Milkha Singh. He was fully on his feet, confused, perplexed , what to do ? that too today itself, he called the Chokidar of his school, who was also like him but thankfully instead of sleeping he was playing with some children who had made a mistake to come to school. Head Master shouted: What the hell you are doing there ? Poor chap stand coolly and silently, what to say to the person who himself was sleeping just a few moments ago, but he was smart enough to notice the envelop in his hand and asked : What happen Sir ? By this time Head Master Sir, gathered himself and said : See the hell has broken on our school, and our job is in grave danger , we have to do something ? now just tell me that how many teachers and children are present at this time in our school ? Sir, there you have shown in Register the strength of children around 75 , but the fact is that only around 25 comes usually, but at this time there are only just 15 children here and we have 10 teachers but right now only Ganglani Sir is there and he is doing his work , so he called me to mend the children who were making too much noise and he could not concentrate on his work. Disturbed Headmaster said just go and send Sir here and go to village and call all the children tell them that there is sweet distribution programs in school , so all should come in dress and call all the teachers, stupid ones who only come to take their salaries and do nothing , just go we have only 4 hours at our disposal as the Inspector of School is coming to inspect our school , do fast because if we failed to show our work here then Ramu this school will be stopped by them or we will be sacked by them ? Now it is the time of our daily bread and butter , do you understand ? Poor Ramu perplexed , what he could understand is that he is also going to loose his job and it is really very difficult to survive in this village without job, as his land was already mortgaged to the Money Lander, what work he will do, how he will survive with his pregnant wife and aging mother ? With this killing thought he ran to collect the children and teachers. In the meantime Head Master start negotiating with only Sir, who was present there that how to tackle this problem. This school was only up to 5th standard, we have hardly teach our children, what should we can teach them if they themselves are not interesting in learning any thing, and these illiterate villagers , they all are duffers and fools ? Both were contemplating and trying to find out a solution for the problem. Suddenly Mr. Ganglani Sir came up with a novel idea, he said: Sir, there is a lesson of Ramayana in 5th Class, I think this story is known by all and thankfully it is the first chapter of our hindi book also, if Mr. Inspector of School will ask then we will tell that our children are well versed in this chapter and I know 4 or 5 children who are good in math, they can recite table , don’t worry our problem will be solved, Sir. By the time some teachers also arrived on the scene with worry on their faces , Headmaster Sir said just go to their respective classes , do the arrangement as if the classes are being taken here regularly, children are coming and make them understand that if the Sir who is coming ask them, answer them and again tell them the story of Ramayana, as it is known by all and it is easy also . In the meantime Chokidar Ramu was successful in collecting around 25 children from the village, thankfully in the name of sweet they all are there in their dresses. Suddenly the school which was sleeping with no activity was buzzing with lots of activity, all children were in class, teachers were busy in telling the story and making them understand that how to behave before the coming guest. From every class two students were selected to say Good morning as they could speak well and loudly. All prepared and set, as intimated a Government Jeep stopped outside the school, two persons, who were of course Inspector of School with his assistant was there. Head Master Sir came running to receive them, the office which was just a few hours ago a bed room now has turned into a office room. Inspector looked around the office and after few initial questions and answer he desired his desire to inspect the classes. As Mr. Inspector entered the 1st class, he saw children were busy playing with their fingers, on being asked he was told that because they can not handle books and pencil so it was an innovative idea to make them learn with their fingers, on being asked that where are the copies and pencils which they regularly get on government provide them periodically, he said meekly that they give them at the end of the season so that the charm of getting the new copies bring them to school. O.K. , said the Inspector. Head master said: Sir , these are the small children, they take lot of time and effort and as you know sir, these villagers are hardly interested to sent the children to school but my 5th standard class is good and you can see that. As he wanted to get rid of this tension and thought that by this time teacher must have narrated the story of Ramayana to children also. As they entered in the class room, two students stood and said with folded hand: Good Morning Sir, Inspector: Good, Good, how are you children ? Children: Sir we are good. Inspector: So children you all have read the chapter of Ramayana from the book, now I will ask some question from all of you and will see that what you have read here ? He make a boy stand up and asked : Now child tell me that who has broke the Bow of Shiva ? O My God! What he is asking, this is not the question from Ramayana, the child thought but if he will not explain it then certainly the blame will be on her , he thought and said: Sir, I do not know, who has broken the Bow of Shiva, as I was not even coming to school for the last one month and I came today only and after coming to school, I did not move from here , so Sir I have no idea, who has broken the Bow ? Inspector’s eyes become wide with astonishment as Mr. Head master was saying that this lesson has been taught by them very diligently and all children are well versed with the story. He asked another boy : Now Child , you in the side corner, you tell me that who has broke the bow ? Boy said : Sir, the same situation is with me , if he do not know then how I could know ? even I was here after a long time, Sir I even do not know that where it was kept ? Poor Inspector he again tried; you the last boy, you tell me ? Last Boy: Sir, this is really very unfair, here all the people are ready o blame me, the reason is simple because I do not agree the press the feet of Sir, so he is all set to blame me , why the hell every body is ready to blame me for the every mischief that has taken place in school, Sir, ask Ramu, he must have taken it to his home, he is in the habit of taking things clandestinely from the school and Sir, our principal is cool with him because Ramu is the Chokidaar of school but he does all his house work, so Sir is being partial to him , just inquire from him the truth will be out. Inspector by this time was fuming with anger, he looked with surprise to the Head master, who was stealing his eyes from him. He left the class and came to school office, suddenly he felt that Headmaster was there on his feet and begging to him. Sir, I was just one year old, even I never knew that there was Shiva’s Bow in School, please don’t worry for the loss, I will pay for it but Sir, please do not complain to the high authority, otherwise my job will be in danger and I have small kids to feed Sir, have mercy on me. He left the premises without saying any thing, as his car drove , after half an hour he asked his Asstt. : Tyagi, I know there was a reference of bow in Ramayana , but what was that ? Tyagi: (silence prevailed)
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:28:54 +0000
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