The Day The School Assembly Stood Still !
Do you remember the daily assembly at school ? Of course you do. I am also sure that you will be quite familiar with the usual sequence of events involved, the first segment is of course the prayer, then, there’s the pledge- “All Indians are my brothers and sisters (to which many of my friends would say under their breath-except one) etc etc and the last part where some poor kid would be faced by the daunting task of reading the ‘thought’ for the day with an accompanying short story, the news headlines, and the so called ‘special’ activity of the day. These were all tiny segments; a maximum of 5 minutes was given for each of them and on most days they would go unnoticed, this was in part due to the schools antique sound system which was probably stolen from a museum in ancient Germany. The following story is based on true events ! Raja Sahu was a classmate of mine who appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the academic session of 2001, he was a thin lanky boy