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BOOK REVIEW Honest Portrayal of Hostel Life! by Sanjay Pahwa I would like to begin this review in a somewhat unusual manner, by stating what I expected from the book, and what I got. Before I began reading the book, I was expecting a somewhat dry and didactic tome, which would be filled with abstract ideas and advice about schools and how to run them, for after all the author is a chairman of a well-known public school. Instead, to my surprise and relief, I found myself going through an honest appraisal of the author’s own school days in a boarding school. Having lived in a boarding myself, I could relate with every incident and aspect of school life. The icing on the cake was the delightful sense of humour which ran through the entire narration. As I read about the incident of the brothers’ missing socks, the author’s attempts at painting and music, the incident of Ram’s dhoti, I found myself chuckling heartily, remembering my own days in a boy’s hostel. The incidents have been brought to life with deft strokes. The riveting storytelling and the humour, however, were only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. I soon realized that behind the effortless and easy narrative style lay a wisdom that was both earthy and worldly wise at the same time, which was honed out of the author’s own experiences in life. By weaving in the accounts from other famous schools, the author succeeds in capturing a broader stage. It is a book that everybody, be they parents, students, teachers, principals, or the public at large should read not merely for entertainment, but also edification and instruction on what makes a rounded school education. From the importance of hostel life to the responsibility of parents in bringing up the children, from the fine distinction between harmless schoolboy pranks which is so essential to bonding and growth, and rank indiscipline it covers and deals sensitively with almost every aspect of being children. The book has interesting titbits in the author’s inimitable style, which is simultaneously easy going, humorous and deeply empathetic. The empathy is deep seated and its roots lie in the fact that he is speaking from a lived experience, as a hostler in a boy’s school and as a chairman who has been overseeing the running of a school for the past 30 years. In the end, I was left amused, but also educated by ‘Let’s pray before our meal’. Richly illustrated, it is a story of transference and transformation, transference of the traditions and values that the author imbibed during his school days, and their transformation to fit the school and world of today. 62| www.progressiveteacher.in
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